Circulating Ideas

LiTTech 80: Do You Really Need a Masters Degree to be a Librarian?

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:18:00 +0000

LiTTech, Episode 80 features part two of the shared discussion between Circulating Ideas and LiTTech about the state of the MLS. Emily, Addie and Steve continue their talk with David Lankes, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Cori Dickerson.

R. David Lankes is a professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. Past projects include the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, the Gateway to Education Materials, AskERIC and the Virtual Reference Desk. Lankes’ more recent work involves how participatory concepts can reshape libraries and credibility. You can hear earlier Circulating Ideas interviews with Dr. Lankes here and here.

Jill Hurst-Wahl, MLS, is a digitization consultant and owner of Hurst Associates, Ltd. She also an Associate Professor of Practice in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and the director of the iSchool's Library and Information Science Program. She is a member of the SLA Board of Directors (2011-2013). Jill's interests include digitization, digital libraries, copyright, web 2.0 and social media.

Cori Dickerson is an absentee MLS student and a part-time librarian in the great state of Texas. Her art and English degrees keep her in the lap of luxury, and the high school students keep her from making any progress on her To Read list. Cori's trying very hard not to be a responsible adult, and spends far too much time playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. (Star Trek is her one true love, however!) She can generally be spotted on Twitter and Pinterest, scavenging ideas from much cooler people.

The State of the MLS

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:05:00 +0000

Steve teams up with Emily and Addie from the LiTTech podcast to discuss the current state of library and information science education with guests David Lankes, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Cori Dickerson.

This is part one of the conversation. Part two will be in Episode 80 of LiTTech.

R. David Lankes is a professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. Past projects include the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, the Gateway to Education Materials, AskERIC and the Virtual Reference Desk. Lankes’ more recent work involves how participatory concepts can reshape libraries and credibility. You can hear earlier Circulating Ideas interviews with Dr. Lankes here and here.

Jill Hurst-Wahl, MLS, is a digitization consultant and owner of Hurst Associates, Ltd. She also an Associate Professor of Practice in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and the director of the iSchool's Library and Information Science Program. She is a member of the SLA Board of Directors (2011-2013). Jill's interests include digitization, digital libraries, copyright, web 2.0 and social media.

Cori Dickerson is an absentee MLS student and a part-time librarian in the great state of Texas. Her art and English degrees keep her in the lap of luxury, and the high school students keep her from making any progress on her To Read list. Cori's trying very hard not to be a responsible adult, and spends far too much time playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. (Star Trek is her one true love, however!) She can generally be spotted on Twitter and Pinterest, scavenging ideas from much cooler people.

Episode Twenty-Four: Paula Brehm-Heeger

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:30:00 +0000

Guest host Brett Bonfield speaks with Paula Brehm-Heeger, an administrator with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and YALSA past-president.

Paula Brehm-Heeger has worked in public libraries for nearly two decades. Currently an administrator with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Paula is professionally active on a local, state and, national level. She has served as President of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, as a member of the Ohio Library Council Board of Directors, and is currently serving as a member of ALA Council. Paula has contributed writings to the Public Library Association’s Public Libraries, VOYA, School Library Journal, and YALSA’S Young Adult Library Services Journal. She is the author of ServingUrban Teens (Libraries Unlimited, 2008), and the 2010 article she co-authored for Public Libraries, “Remaking One of the Nation’s Busiest Main Libraries”, was named a Feature Article of the Year.

Sunny Days

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:12:00 +0000

When I was five years old, fireflies were my friends. In the small South Carolina town of Sumter, I would walk outside as the day wound down into dusk, put my hand in the air and delight as the fireflies would land on my fingers. I would cup my hand over them, peeking between my fingers to watch them walk around and light up their temporary home between my palms. I named them all Sunny.

One day, one of my Sunny friends landed on my hand but this one looked a little different than the others. His backside was yellow but there was no light on it and he was rounder and fuzzier than I remembered. He also didn’t seem to appreciate his new home much, which I discovered when he stung me.

The final Sunny was a bee.

I can still remember how utterly betrayed I felt, that one of my beloved friends had hurt me. He wouldn’t be the last, of course, but he was the first. For awhile, I didn’t try to catch fireflies anymore, but I did eventually drift back, though I never named another.

Now, that was not an awesome experience. As much as I can still feel the pain that last Sunny caused (both physical and emotional), I can also recall the joy all the other Sunnies brought me, but I didn’t have the life experience to understand that one bad experience should not spoil countless good ones.

The thing about being an adult is that now I do understand and in a professional sense, that is what I try to do with the podcast I created, Circulating Ideas: show off the good experiences we create in libraries, which far outnumber the things not going our way. The profession is filled with innovative people, and I want the show to be a platform for them to show off how awesome they are. When I promote the show, I’m also promoting those guests who have been on and will be on, paying it forward.

I have done a lot of promotion for the show in the past, from writing guest posts for other blogs to appearing on other podcasts to posting updates to multiple social media accounts (some that I update more the others), but the biggest piece of self-promotion I’ve done, which is somewhat unique in the world of libraries, is my Kickstarter campaign, which ends on May 17.

Kickstarter allows creative projects to gather pledges to fund themselves, providing rewards to backers, with the safety net being that if a project is not fully-funded, no one pays out. Before embarking on this self-promotional journey, I studied successful Kickstarter projects and other projects related to podcasts and libraries (there were not a lot!), to see what the expectations were on setting rewards and how projects were presented. I listened to the New Disruptors podcast, which talks to people who use nontraditional ways of raising capital for their projects, and read more articles on Kickstarter than I care to count. I put together what I thought was a reasonable package to help me expand and enhance the show and went live. Within 48 hours, the project had been fully funded and the pledges continue to trickle in. So far, I have passed my first stretch goal - which are additional goals set, after initial funding is achieved - and hope to pass at least the second goal before the project ends. As much as the Kickstarter project will help me make the show bigger and better, it has also brought a lot of attention and I’ve hopefully picked up more listeners along the way, which will bring them to the attention of all the great people featured on the show.

We sometimes feel stung from the attacks on libraries but we need to remember that the future is bright for libraries if we can embrace the best of our profession and push forward into more sunny days. My hope is that I’m able to be a part of that, and I hope you will be, too.

Want to know more about the 30 Days of Awesome project? Check out these posts by Kelly, Liz, and Sophie.

C is for Circulating

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:55:00 +0000

Steve guests on Maurice Coleman's T is for Training podcast to talk about the show and the Kickstarter.

I was pleased to be invited to take part in Maurice Coleman's awesome T is for Training podcast this past week (for more on Maurice, check out the PLA2012 episode). This episode was a bit of a departure in his format, mostly taken up by me talking about the show and the Kickstarter, but I encourage you to go back and listen to the archives, particularly if you do any training in the your organization.

Kickstarter

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000

Two years ago when I started doing Circulating Ideas, I had only my five year old iMac, GarageBand, and Skype, with my site set up on Google’s free Blogger platform. The earliest monetary investment I made was securing the domain name registration. You can hear the poor audio quality in those first few episodes until I upgraded to a Blue Snowball mic and added Audacity to my mix of sound tools. I continue to work on the same iMac (with a hard drive upgrade) and still use GarageBand as my primary editing tool. When I attended the Public Library Association conference in the Spring of 2012, I was able to use some equipment loaned from my place of work, like a portable digital recorder and a laptop, because I had been sent by them to cover the conference; this was nice because otherwise I had no options for recording on the go (I didn’t even have a smartphone at that point).
Now I can continue along like this for the foreseeable future and keep interviewing more great, innovative librarians but in order for the show to grow and flourish, I need to upgrade not only my mobile options but also my home office equipment. I do the show on my own time, outside of work, so all current costs and any prospective upgrades come out of my own pocket.

However, that’s where you can come in to help.

I’ve started a Kickstarter campaign to support the show and I would appreciate any help you can provide. If you don’t have money to give, just passing along this information about the campaign would be a great help. I’ve started off with some modest goals for improvements and have plans for stretch goals beyond the initial funding request to provide bigger and better services with more advanced equipment and software with additional fun rewards to go along with it.

Thanks for helping to circulate the ideas.

Episode Twenty-Three: Troy Swanson

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:52:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Dr. Troy Swanson, community college librarian and author of Managing Social Media in Libraries.

Troy A. Swanson is Teaching & Learning Librarian and Library Department Chair at Moraine Valley Community College in the USA. Troy has managed the library’s web presence since the year 2000. He implemented his library’s blogs in 2004 using a content management approach, and the library’s first podcasts for cultural events in 2006. He has published on the library website design and usability in the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Internet Reference Services Quarterly. Troy also writes as a guest author on the Tame the Web blog. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the management of Web 2.0 in higher education. He has also written on information literacy instruction for college students. Troy lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Kim and their three children.

Managing Social Media in Libraries

ALA Election 2013: NMRT

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:51:00 +0000

Steve speaks with NMRT VP/President-Elect candidates Holly Okuhara and Megan Hodge.

Holly Okuhara is a Branch Manager with the Weber County Library System in Ogden, Utah. She received her MLIS from the University of Denver in 2006 and recently finished her Masters in Public Administration in 2011 from the University of Colorado-Denver's online program. She is active in multiple library related activities including the LLAMA Mentoring Committee, ALA’s Committee on Diversity, NMRT’s Vice-Presidential Planning Committee and Resume Review Service, APALA’s Constitution and Bylaws Committee, and currently serves on the Utah Library Association’s Executive Board as the Program Board Chair. Holly also worked on Molly Raphael’s presidential initiative Empowering Diverse Voices: Association Options Fair and Roberta Steven’s Why I Need My Libraries Task Force. Holly was an Emerging Leader in 2008 and recently participated in the MPLA Leadership Institute in 2012. Her primary focus during her career has been diversity, professional development, and leadership.

Megan Hodge is currently an Assistant Branch Manager for the Chesterfield County Public Library system (VA) as well as a member of the NMRT Executive Board as the 2011-2013 Leadership Director. In 2011, she was an NMRT-sponsored Emerging Leader and co-founded a New Members Round Table for the state of Virginia.

Megan received her B.A. in English Literature from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and her M.S.L.S. from the University of North Texas.

Please note that these election episodes are done to be informational, not necessarily as an endorsement of one or more candidates.

ALA Election 2013: ALA Council

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:16:00 +0000

Steve speaks with various candidates running for ALA Council.

ALA Think Tank Caucus
Kate Kosturski
Erica Findley
John M. Jackson
Coral Sheldon-Hess

Loida Garcia-Febo

Lauren Pressley

2013 Council Candidate Biographical Information (PDF)
2013 Council Candidate Searchable Spreadsheet
Please note that these election episodes are done to be informational, not necessarily as an endorsement of one or more candidates.

ALA Election 2013: LITA

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:14:00 +0000

Steve speaks with candidates for various LITA offices in the 2013 ALA elections.

President-elect

Frank Cervone
Rachel Vacek

Councilor
Aaron Dobbs

Directors at Large
Jason Battles
Brett Bonfield
Andromeda Yelton

Please note that these election episodes are done to be informational, not necessarily as an endorsement of one or more candidates. Not all candidates were available to interview.

ALA Election 2013: ALA Presidential Candidates

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:53:00 +0000

Steve speaks with the two candidates for president of the American Library Association for 2013.

COURTNEY L. YOUNG

Courtney is currently Head Librarian and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Penn State Greater Allegheny. She is an active leader in the American Library Association (ALA), serving on the ALA Executive Board (2009-2012) and as a past President of the New Members Round Table (2009-2010). In 2011, Courtney was named a Library Journal "Mover& Shaker", recognized as a Change Agent for her ability to successfully make connections among a diversity of duties in her library, on campus, and in the profession. She graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio with a B.A. in English and minors in Black Studies and Women's Studies. She received her M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.

Before coming to Penn State Greater Allegheny, Courtney worked at The Ohio State University, Michigan State University, where she received a Staff Achievement Award as the assistant instruction librarian, and Penn State's University Park and Beaver campuses. Courtney frequently presents and publishes on issues related to academic librarianship, diversity, virtual reference, and professional development.

http://courtneyyoung.org/
http://librarycourtney.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CourtneyYoungforALAPresident

librarycourtney@gmail.com

Twitter / Google+ @librarycourtney

BARBARA IMMROTH

Barbara has worked as a free-lance indexer, an instructor for the State Library of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh, an assistant in the Brown University Library, a librarian for the University of Denver Library, a children's librarian at Carnegie Library, and a high school librarian in Pittsburgh. Her research interests center on children's services, childrenâ€™s health and children's literature. She is the author of Texas in Children's Books and co-author of Teaching Texas History: An All-Level Resource Guide. She edited, with Viki Ash-Geisler as co-editor, Achieving School Readiness: Public Libraries and National Education Goal No. 1; and Library Service for Youth of Hispanic Heritage with Kathleen de la Pena McCook. Her most recent books, written with Bill Lukenbill, are Health Information for Youth: The Public Library and School Library Media Center Role and Health Information in a Changing World: Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools and School Librarians. She is a past President of the Association for Library Service to Children, a former Trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a past President of the Texas Library Association and a past national President of the Beta Phi Mu LIS honorary society. She is the P.I. for two grants that received IMLS funding: "Youth, Community, Libraries: Empowerment for Success" for Ph.D. student recruitment and "Promoting Information Literacy & Teacher Collaboration through Social Marketing Strategies" for a study of librarian-teacher collaboration. She was the first woman in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, now School of Information, at The University of Texas to direct a dissertation.

http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/immroth/

https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraImmrothForAlaPresidentElect2013

Please note that these election episodes are done to be informational, not necessarily as an endorsement of one or more candidates.

Library Marketing Toolkit: Ned Potter

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:23:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Ned Potter, author of the Library Marketing Toolkit, and a librarian at the University of York Library.

Ned Potter works for the University of York Library, as an Academic Liaison Librarian in the Arts and Humanities; previous roles at the University of Leeds Library centered around Digitisation, including the JISC funded LIFE-SHARE Project.

He has a BA in Philosophy / English and an MA in Music, both from York, and an MSc in Information & Library Management, from Northumbria. In 2010 Ned founded LISNPN, a network for New Professionals in Librarianship which now has over 1600 members from 60 countries around the world. With Laura Woods he helped instigate the Echo Chamber movement to try and get library voices better heard beyond the profession, and set up the Library Routes Project to document the paths through librarianship of over 150 information professionals.

In 2011 he collaborated with 3 other librarians to set up the Buy India a Library project, which in just 2 weeks crowd-sourced funds enough to build a permanent library in one of the poorest parts of India, as well as four mobile libraries to travel around Africa. In one heady 24hr period later that year he was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker and a winner of a Special Libraries Association Early Career Conference Award.

Across 2011 Ned authored the Library Marketing Toolkit, published by Facet Publishing / Neal Schuman in 2012. It has been number 1 in Amazon’s Library charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The website to accompany the book, which also features a marketing blog, is at www.librarymarketingtoolkit.com.

In 2012 Ned became a trainer for the British Library and the UK Electronic Information Group, and has provided marketing expertise for diverse clients such as the Bodleian Libaries and the Latvian Ministry of Culture.

Ned enjoys drumming, and writing about himself in the third-person. His main website can be found at www.thewikiman.org.

Episode Twenty-Two: Jan Holmquist

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:06:00 +0000

Steve speaks with global librarian Jan Holmquist about buying libraries for India, cycling, and gaining a global perspective on the profession.

Jan Holmquist describes himself as a Global librarian - because libraries are more important than ever and because the best way libraries can act locally for their communities is to be inspired globally. Jan works as head of library development at Guldborgsund-bibliotekerne - a public library in the south eastern part of Denmark, Europe.

The library as a learning hub in the community is one of Jan's core beliefs, as is the globally inspired local library where citizens participate to build new knowledge.

He is part of the German and international library development network - Zukunftentwicklers and the international reading project “Read watch & play”. He is also a speaker, a Dad, crowd funder, music listener and drinker of good coffee. Jan is a member of the international library crowdfunding teams Buy India a Library and Help This Week in Libraries and is working with an international learning project in the spirit of 23 Things about apps on iPad mini.

Jan blogs at janholmquist.wordpress.com and tweets at @janholmquist - You can also find him on other social networks via about.me/janholmquist

Librarians are ROCKSTARS! - Tom Angleberger

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:41:00 +0000

Steve, in collaboration with Allison and Michelle from the Authors are ROCKSTARS! podcast, chats with author and illustrator Tom Angleberger about the awesomeness of libraries, librarians, and Star Wars!

Tom is the author and illustrator of the Origami Yoda series, in addition to many other great novels for young readers. His next book, Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling, will be on bookstore shelves in March 2013.

It was a great pleasure to team up with Allison and Michelle for this special project. Be sure to check out the first part of this series over on their site, with author Kirby Larson and add their show to your podcast-listening queue today!

Librarians are ROCKSTARS! - Kirby Larson

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:15:00 +0000

Take a listen to the newest episode of the Authors are ROCKSTARS! podcast for a special collaboration we call Librarians are ROCKSTARS! We spoke with author Kirby Larson about her love of libraries and librarians, and got a sneak peek at her new book, Hattie Ever After, hitting bookshelves on February 12.

Allison and Michelle were a delight to work with, and you'll see part two with another great author here on Thursday.

Episode Twenty-One: Best Books of 2012 (Part Two)

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Steve speaks with a group of librarians about their favorite books of 2012 (and some sneak peeks into 2013).

Stephanie Anderson:

Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
By Blood by Ellen Ullman
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
I Am An Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran
Zona by Geoff Dyer
The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
The Red Book by Carl Jung
Coming in 2013:
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Darien Library Staff Top 10:
Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Burn Down the Ground by Kambri Crews
Elsewhere by Richard Russo
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane
Quiet by Susan Cain
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Thomas Maluck:

Message To Adolf by Osamu Tezuka
Daredevil by Mark Waid & various artists

The Graphic Canon by Various
A Wrinkle In Time adapted by Hope Larson

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

Coming in 2013:
Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura

Julie Jurgens:

The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Four Mile by Watt Key
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand
Long Lankin by Lindsay Barrclough
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
It's a Tiger by David LaRochelle & ills. by Jeremy Tankard
A Boy, a Bear and a Boat by Dave Shelton
Marching To The Mountaintop : How Poverty, Labor Fights, And Civil Rights Set The Stage For Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum
The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins
Coming in 2013:
The Beatles Were Fab (And They Were Funny) by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer
Seagulls Don't Eat Pickles by Erica Farber

Leah White:

The Twelve by Justin Cronin
At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley

Episode Twenty: Best Books of 2012 (Part One)

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:05:00 +0000

Steve speaks with a group of librarians about their favorite books of 2012 (and some sneak peeks into 2013).

Liz Burns:

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper

Coming in 2013:

Game by Barry Lyga

Kiki Strike: The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten Miller

Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Kelly Jensen:

Crazy by Amy Reed
Me & Earl & The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Thumped by Megan McCafferty
Something Like Normal by Trish Doller

Statistical Probability of Love and First Sight by Jennifer E Smith
The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
Butter by Erin Jade Lange

The List by Siobhan Vivian
The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis
The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
Catch & Release by Blythe Woolston
Coming in 2013:
17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
Absent by Katie Williams
The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding
When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Kristi Chadwick:

Cold Days by Jim Butcher
Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire

Discount Armaggeddon by Seanan McGuire
Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy) by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire)
Angel's Ink: The Asylum Tales by Jocelynn Drake

Ironskin by Tina Connolly
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Coming in 2013:
Chimes at Midnight & Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Greenlight for Murder by Heywood Gould

Anna Mickelsen:

The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks (#2 in the Lightbringer Trilogy)

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas (Fitzhugh Trilogy #2)
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
Coming in 2013:
A Memory of Light by Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan
Ever After by Kim Harrison
Anything by Sherry Thomas
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan

Sarah Statz Cords

Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Always Put In a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker by Evelyn Birkby
George Harrison: Living in the Material World by George Harrison
Read This! Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie
Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
COMING IN 2013:
American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak
Detroit by Charlie LeDuff
Gun Guys by Dan Baum
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others by Stacy Horn

Becky Spratford

The Walking Dead (graphic novel) by Robert Kirkman
The Void by Brett Talley
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle.
Flesh and Bone (Rot and Ruin trilogy) by Jonathan Maberry
A Bad Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand
Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel (Book Two in The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series)
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
Coming in 2013:Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry
NO24A2 by Joe Hill
Locke and Key (graphic novel) by Joe Hill
Dr. Sleep by Stephen King (sequel to The Shining)

Expect More

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:49:00 +0000

Steve speaks with R. David Lankes about his new book, Expect More.

Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world, do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren’t about books, what are they about?

In Expect More, David Lankes, winner of the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that, to thrive, communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar, and beyond books and literature. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of privacy, intellectual property, and economic development.

This book is written for the people who support and oversee libraries. This includes college provosts, students, parents, board members, volunteers, and, well, just about everyone who has ever gone to school or pays taxes. You need to know what libraries are capable of, and you need to raise the bar on your expectations. Expect More is a rallying call to communities to increase their expectations for great libraries.

Buy the book in print at CreateSpace (the preferred retailer) and Amazon. It is also available as an eBook from Smashwords for all major platforms.

For more information on the book, to order a copy, or to join the conversation about improving libraries, go to the book’s website http://www.riland.org.

Episode Nineteen: Jason Griffey

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Jason Griffey, the Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and creator of LibraryBox.

Jason Griffey is an Associate Professor and Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His latest book, Mobile Technology and Libraries, is available as a part of Neal Schuman's Tech Set, the winner of the ALA 2011 Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. He has also written multiple Library Technology Reports for the American Library Association on topics such as personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. Jason was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009, and speaks internationally on the future of libraries, mobile technology, eBooks, and other technology related issues.

His current obsession is the LibraryBox Project, a portable digital file distribution system. He can be stalked obsessively at www.jasongriffey.net and Pattern Recognition and is a columnist for the ALA Techsource blog. He spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

SHOW NOTES

Unglue.it

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Eric Hellman and Andromeda Yelton from Unglue.it.
Unglue.it offers a win-win solution to readers, who want to read and share their favorite books conveniently, and rights holders, who want to be rewarded for their work.

They run crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for specific, already-published books. When they reach goals set by the rights holders, they'll pay them to unglue their work. The rights holders will issue an electronic edition with a Creative Commons license as specified during the campaign. These licenses will make the edition free and legal for everyone to read, copy, and share, worldwide.

At Unglue.it, book lovers can pledge money to support these campaigns; add books to their wishlist to tell the world about their favorites; discuss their favorite books; share their Unglue.it pages via social media; and find direct links to public domain and unglued ebooks that they can read right away.

Campaign to unglue So You Want to Be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley

Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar, is a technologist, entrepreneur, and writer. After 10 years at Bell Labs in physics research, Eric became interested in technologies surrounding e-journals and libraries. His first business, Openly Informatics, developed OpenURL linking software and knowledgebases, and was acquired by OCLC in 1996. At OCLC, he led the effort to productize and expand the xISBN service, and began the development of OCLC's Electronic Resource Management offerings. After leaving OCLC, Eric began blogging at Go To Hellman. He covers the intersection of technology, libraries and ebooks, and has written extensively on the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Eric has a B.S.E. from Princeton University, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Andromeda Yelton is a former Latin teacher and recent library science graduate (with a background in mathematics) who's quickly made a name for herself in the library world. She has a BA in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an MA in Classics from Tufts, and recently completed her MLS from Simmons. She blogs atAcross Divided Networks and at ALA TechSource, and won the 2010 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award for the article "A Simple Scheme for Book Classification Using Wikipedia". She is a 2011 American Library AssociationEmerging Leader. Andromeda was one of the leaders of the crowdsourced philanthropy project Buy India a Library. She also has first-hand experience with public broadcasting- she was once a listener contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Episode Eighteen: David Lee King

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:12:00 +0000

Steve speaks with David Lee King, librarian and author of Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections.

David Lee King is the Digital Services Director at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He speaks internationally about emerging trends, website management, digital experience, and social media, and has been published in many library-related journals. David was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker for 2008. His newest book, Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections, was published in September. David writes the Outside/In column in American Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter, and maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com.

Library Innovation Submissions

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Leah White about submissions for the new book on library innovation that she is editing with Anthony Molaro.

Call for chapter contributions.

Recent conferences have highlighted the importance of innovation in libraries, and it is a term often heard in library circles. But what is innovation? Innovation is an incremental process. It is the creation of effective, efficient, and better products, services, technologies, programs or structures to help libraries meet the needs of 21st century library patrons.

How does your library engage in an innovation process? What innovations can your library adopt today? Who can suggest, plan, implement and assess ideas? The Library Innovation Cookbook: Bite-Sized Ideas to Fuel Growth in Your Library is designed to answer those questions with quick morsels that your library can apply immediately.

Editors:

Dr. Anthony Molaro is an imaginarian and information activist and is the Associate Dean of Library and Instructional Technology at Prairie State College.

Leah L. White is a Reader Services Librarian and creator of Books on Tap, Northbrook Public Library’s first book club in a pub.

Episode Seventeen: Wendy Stephens

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:07:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Wendy Stephens, librarian at Cullman High School.

Wendy Stephens is the librarian at Cullman High School and a doctoral candidate in Information at the University of North Texas, where she was funded by an IMLS grant to prepare school and public library faculty. Her research interests include reader response theory, selection, censorship and digital inclusion. She is an AASL representative to the Office of Information Technology Policy Digital Literacy Task force, the YALSA Website Advisory Board chair, and an ALA Councilor-at-Large. She blogs at Wendy on the Web and you can follow her on Twitter @wsstephens.

EveryLibrary

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Steve speaks with John Chrastka, executive director of EveryLibrary, the PAC for libraries.

EveryLibrary helps public, school, and college libraries win bonding, tax, and advisory referendum, ensuring stable funding and access to libraries for generations to come.

EveryLibrary will be the first and only national organization dedicated exclusively to political action at a local level to create, renew, and protect public funding for libraries of all types. We will provide tactical and operational support to local voter awareness campaigns, seed and sustaining monies to local ballot committees and PACs, as well as conducting direct voter advocacy in support of library taxing, bonding, and referendum.

EveryLibrary’s founder is John Chrastka, a long time library trustee, supporter, and advocate. Mr. Chrastka is a partner in AssociaDirect, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on supporting associations in membership recrutiment, conference, and goverance activities. He is also president of the Board of Trustees for the Berwyn (IL) Public Library (2006 – present) and is a former president of the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries System (RAILS) multi-type library system. Prior to his work at AssociaDirect, he was Director for Membership Development at the American Library Association (ALA), the world’s oldest and largest organization for librarians, library workers, supporters, and advocates. He is a current trustee member of ALA as well as in the Illinois Library Association (ILA), where he chairs the Fundraising Committee.

Episode Sixteen: Howard Rheingold

circulatingideas.mail@gmail.com (Steve Thomas) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:45:00 +0000

Steve speaks with Howard Rheingold, author of Net Smart.

Howard Rheingold is the author of:

Tools for Thought
The Virtual Community
Smart Mobs
Net Smart

Was:

editor of Whole Earth Review
editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
founding executive editor of Hotwired
founder of Electric Minds

Has taught:

Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall
2005, 2006, 2007)
Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; UC Berkeley, Spring 2008, 2009)
Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)
Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Current projects:

Social Media Classroom
The Cooperation Project
Rheingold U