Category Archives: Podcast

Social Justice is a Core Library Value – an interview with Eli Guinnee

Eli Guinnee is a super fabulous librarian. He’s a co-creator in the NYLA Sustainability Initiative and the editor of The Best! newsletter of the Rural Libraries Round Table. Oh, and he’s Executive Director of the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System. What’s really the thing about Eli, is that he understands the work of librarians to be the

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Yes! Cohocton’s new Director Phil Trautman talks mission and vision

Phil Trautman started as the Cohocton Public Library’s new director in October. He gave me some time and shared his vision of the library with me. Spoiler alert: one word mission statement! Can you guess what the word is?

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Alex Andrasik adjusting his glasses

Alex Andrasik: Penn Yan’s Heist Loving Librarian

This is an interview with Adult Services Librarian Alex Andrasik of Penn Yan Public Library in which we talk about #NYLA2015 (last interview with this topic – promise!), the newly named film genre The Glam Heist, and trying to crack the Milleniums code. Thank you members of Penn Yan’s public library community for letting me

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Pauline Emery: why she (and her community) won

Recently, while at the 2015 NYLA Conference, I witnessed Pauline Emery accept the Mary Bobinski Innovative Public Library Director Award. She did so with grace and humility and her eyes focused on the future of our profession and our neighborhoods. It was really beautiful. Unfortunately, I recorded that audio with Hope Decker’s phone (I felt

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Filomena Jack: After the 2015 NYLA Conference

I had never been to a New York Library Association Conference before. Among the incredible opportunities my work with STLS affords me, NYLA Conference attendance is a pretty remarkable. The fine people from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System picked Filomena Jack and I up, ferried us to Lake Placid and back, and, most importantly, let us

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Jenn Tirado in the EJ Cottrell Memorial Library circulation area

Jenn Tirado – EJ Cottrell’s New Youth Coordinator

Transcripts coming soon(ish)!

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Leah Vooys standing by a window

Leah Vooys – Cuba Circulating Library’s Director

Transcript coming soon!

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Jessie Arnone sitting in Cohocton Library

Jessie Arnone – Cohocton’s new Programmer

Jessie Arnone kindly consented to being interviewed by me September 25, 2015 in the rarely quiet Cohocton Public Library. To listen to the interview, click the black podcast bar above. The audio play works better if you click “Play in new window” (I’ll work on making it better, promise.) To read a transcript of the

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