Circulating Ideas

Back in August 2016, Steve spoke with Amanda L. Goodman and Michael Schofield on their podcast, LibUX, about the design, process, and grind of podcasting, metrics, quality, and monetization. SHOW NOTES: LibUX 041

Back in 2013, Steve, along with Allison Tran from the Authors are ROCKSTARS! podcast, spoke with Cory Doctorow, author, blogger, journalist, and activist at the 2013 American Library Association conference in Chicago. Transcript SHOW NOTES: Craphound Boing Boing Authors for Library eBooks [ALA] Cory’s talk at Library of Congress [Craphound] Philip Pullman: ‘Authors must be paid fairly for ebook … Continue reading Recirculated 2: Cory Doctorow [2013]

Steve chats with Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director of the American Library Association. Read the transcript. Keith Michael Fiels has served as Executive Director of the American Library Association since 2002. Under his leadership, ALA has established a new Office for Library Advocacy, dramatically expanded the Association’s professional publishing and professional development program, brought thousands … Continue reading 100: Keith Michael Fiels

Guest hosts Michael Schofield and Amanda L. Goodman chat with Cecily Walker from Vancouver Public Library. Cecily Walker is a librarian at Vancouver Public Library, where she focuses on user experience, community digital projects, digital collections, and the intersection of social justice, technology, and public librarianship. It was her frustration with the way that software … Continue reading 99: Cecily Walker

Guest hosts Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck from the Secret Stacks podcast chat with Thomas Maluck and Kristin LaLonde from the Secret Stacks podcast. Kristin LaLonde is the Manager of the Health Sciences Library at MidMichigan Health in Midland, MI. Kristin received her MLIS from Wayne State University in 2011. She began her library career … Continue reading 98: Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck

Steve chats with Starr Hoffman,the Head of Planning & Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries and author of the new book Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries. Starr Hoffman, PhD, is the Head of Planning & Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. She is the author of the book … Continue reading 97: Starr Hoffman

Steve chats with Glenn Fleishman, technology journalist and author of the new books Take Control of Slack Basics and Take Control of Slack Admin. Glenn Fleishman is a technology journalist with decades of writing experience. He’s written dozens of editions of books in the Take Control series and for other publishers, penned thousands of articles … Continue reading 96: Glenn Fleishman

Back in Episode 87, Steve chatted with John Bracken about the Knight News Challenge on Libraries, and now John is back to talk about the winners and reflect on how the Knight Foundation moves forward from here. SHOW NOTES Knight News Challenge on LibrariesCirculating Ideas, Episode 87: Knight News Challenge on Libraries

In 2011, Steve chatted with Buffy Hamilton for the first episode of Circulating Ideas. Take yourself back to the days in 2011 when Steve still had a crappy mic and didn’t know how to clean up the audio from a bad Skype connection! But that doesn’t stop Buffy’s wisdom and inspirational message from cutting through … Continue reading Recirculated 1: Buffy Hamilton

Steve chats with Megan Emery, author of Cooking Up Library Programs Teens and ‘Tweens Will Love: Recipes for Success. Megan Emery is an L2 at the Chattanooga Public Library though she prefers the title Experience Designer & Coordinator. She shares her time between the Teen/Tween Department and the 4th Floor creating unique programming opportunities and … Continue reading 94: Megan Emery

Steve chats with his #withdrawn co-host (and Director of the Ventura County Law Library) Dolly Knight about the death of libraries (?). Dolly Knight is the director of the Ventura County Law Library in Ventura, California. A 2012 Eureka! Leadership fellow, she received her MLIS from San Jose State University in 2012, and worked primarily in … Continue reading 93: Dolly Knight

Guest host Sarah Clark chats with Jacob Berg, Senior Librarian at the United States Department of State and blogger at beerbrarian.blogspot.com. Jacob Berg is Senior Librarian at the Stephen Low Information Center, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State, via The LAC Group. He previous served as Director of Library Services at Trinity Washington University, … Continue reading 92: Jacob Berg

Steve chats with Jamie LaRue, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Jamie LaRue is the director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Author of “The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges,” LaRue was a public library … Continue reading 91: Jamie LaRue – ALA OIF

Steve chats with attendees of the Public Library Association Conference in Denver, CO, in 2016. Guests: Dolly Moehrle, Brett Bonfield, Sam Chada, Megan Emery, Becky Yoose, Ryan Claringbole, with a special presentation of Steve’s How To Festival talk about podcasting.

Steve chats with Meredith Farkas, faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon, who blogs at Information Wants to Be Free. Read the transcript. Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College and a lecturer at San Jose State University’s iSchool. She is the author of the book “Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication … Continue reading 89: Meredith Farkas