Circulating Ideas

Steve chats with the team at Equinox Software, which provides open source solutions to libraries around the world. Equinox was founded in 2007 by the original developers and designers of the Evergreen ILS. They are wholly devoted to the support and development of open source software in libraries, focusing on Evergreen, Koha, and the FulfILLment … Continue reading 74: Equinox

Steve chats with Pat Herndon, Director of GLASS: Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services. Pat has worked in libraries in Georgia since 1983. She spent much of her career in libraries working in hospitals, establishing the Noble Learning Resource Center, the patient education and professional library at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. It is there that Pat became interested … Continue reading 73: Pat Herndon

Steve chats with Sari Feldman, 2015-2016 ALA President and Executive Director of Cuyahoga County Public Library. Read the transcript. Sari Feldman is Executive Director of Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL), a position she has held since 2003. Under her leadership, CCPL has become one of the nation’s best and busiest public library systems, earning the Library … Continue reading 72: Sari Feldman

Guest hosts Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck chat with Marissa Lieberman, children’s librarian in New Jersey and anime fangirl. Marissa Lieberman is a children’s librarian at the East Orange Public Library, NJ. She has worked at multiple libraries in the Nassau County, NY library system before relocating to New Jersey. She reviews books for School … Continue reading 71: Marissa Lieberman

Guest host Leah White chats with Gwyn Stupar and Barbara Alvarez, co-creators of the Library OnConference. Gwyneth Stupar is an Adult Services Librarian at the Barrington Area Library. Gwyneth received her Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University in 2006, and  currently serves on the board of the LACONI (Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois)technology … Continue reading 70: Gwyn Stupar and Barbara Alvarez

Guest host Jennie Rothschild speaks with attendees of the 2015 Maryland / Delaware Library Associations joint conference. Jennie Rothschild is a branch manager with Arlington Public Library in Arlington VA. She sometimes blogs about books at www.jenrothschild.com and she tweets a lot at @kidsilkhaze. She likes to do crafty things and binge-watch TV.

Guest host Elizabeth Ferguson Keathley chats with Madigan McGillicuddy, youth services librarian and blogger at Madigan Reads. Madigan McGillicuddy is a youth services librarian at Atlanta-Fulton Public Library. She completed her graduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and her undergraduate degree in Theatre at California State University at Northridge in … Continue reading 68: Madigan McGillicuddy

Steve chats with Carol Tilley, associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, and researcher of the intersection of comics and libraries. Read the transcript. Carol Tilley is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, where she … Continue reading 67: Carol Tilley

Steve chats with Robin Brenner, Teen Librarian at Brookline Public Library and editor-in-chief at No Flying, No Tights. Read the transcript. Robin Brenner is Teen Librarian at the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts. When not presenting programs and providing reading guidance, she writes features for publications including VOYA, The Horn Book, Library Journal, and Knowledge … Continue reading 66: Robin Brenner

Steve chats with Stacie Williams, manager of University of Kentucky’s Learning Lab archives internship program. Read the transcript. Stacie Williams manages the University of Kentucky’s Learning Lab archives internship program. She received a master’s of science from Simmons College in Boston in 2011 and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. She has worked … Continue reading 65: Stacie Williams

Steve chats with Troy Swanson and Heather Jagman, editors of the new book Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information. Read the transcript. SHOW NOTES: Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information

Steve chats with the four candidates for ALA President (2016-2017): Joe Janes, James LaRue, JP Porcaro, and Julie Todaro. Read the transcript. SHOW NOTES Joe Janes’s site James LaRue’s site JP Porcaro’s site Julie Todaro’s site 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting – Presidential Candidates’ Forum Carson Block interviews the candidates

Very special (short) episode with Steve chatting about the Kickstarter. Circulating Ideas began as a podcast to share the innovative ideas and projects that librarians are creating to keep libraries vibrant and relevant in the 21st century. The show has spanned more than 60 hours of content with more than 100 librarians and library supporters … Continue reading Reminder: Recirculated Kickstarter

Steve chats with Michael Perry, Collection Services Project Manager at Northwestern University Library and creator of LibraryProject.info. Read the transcript. Michael Perry is the Collection Services Project Manager at Northwestern University Library. In this role he manages a variety of projects such as an ILS migration, implementing a cloud based discovery system, and changes in … Continue reading 62: Michael Perry

Steve talks about his new Kickstarter to fund transcripts of the podcast. When I started the Circulating Ideas podcast four years ago, I wanted to provide a platform for librarians to share the great work that they’re doing to keep libraries vibrant in the 21st century. I’ve talked to more than 100 librarians and library … Continue reading Recirculated Kickstarter