Podcasts about academic librarians

Guest host Troy Swanson chats with guests Elizabeth Kamper, Gail Porter, and Hunter Dunlap about the ongoing challenges faced by higher education in Illinois due to decades of underfunding, including the devastating impact on librarian positions, particularly at Western Illinois University, which recently eliminated all its faculty librarian roles. Read the transcript! Elizabeth Kamper has … Continue reading 278: Fighting for Academic Librarians: the Impact of Underfunding 

Today's episode features Jane Hammons (The Ohio State University), who talks about her recent To Improve the Academyarticle, “Academic librarians as educational developers: Overview, case study, and discussion.” An academic librarian who offers faculty-facing information literacy workshops, Hammons argues that educational developers may have untapped allies in instructional librarians. Her article offers an example of one such partnership and a robust discussion of how identity can impact how educational developers and librarians conceptualize these partnerships.   This is the third episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you regular conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members.   Visit us at TIA: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/ And the article we discuss today at: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/4263/   Today's episode was hosted by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi. Liz is co-editor-in-chief of To Improve the Academy, along with Megan Robertson (Simon Fraser University) and four assistant editors: Ebony Aya (Macalester College), Anna Bostick Flaming (University of Iowa), Will Hennessy (Algonquin College), and Jessi Hill (Worcester Polytechnic Institute).   Transcript

Kathleen talks with her CUNY librarian colleagues - Vikki Terrile, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and Stephanie Margolin, Associate Professor and librarian at Hunter College – about pop culture scholarship in the academy and in their library careers.

On this episode of the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast, Dr. Julie Evener joins the podcast to discuss her experience in starting and growing a peer-reviewed journal. She shares her passion for open access publishing and the importance of making research more accessible. Dr. Evener provides insights into the process of starting a journal, including finding a niche, building an editorial board, and creating policies and guidelines. She also offers advice for authors looking to submit articles for publication and highlights the red flags to watch out for with predatory journals.Key Takeaways:- Starting a journal requires patience and a realistic understanding of the time commitment involved.- It is important to find a niche and offer something unique in the journal's aims and scope.- Open access publishing makes research more accessible and promotes progress in the field.- When submitting an article, ensure it is a good fit for the journal and follow the author guidelines.- Red flags for predatory journals include unsolicited emails, unclear fees, and lack of reputable affiliations.Dr. Julie Evener is the Director for Content Management & Discovery at USF Health Libraries. She is also an associate editor of the new Journal of Innovation in Health Sciences Education (JIHSE). Dr. Evener earned her doctorate in higher education leadership from Walden University, and her master's degree in library and information science from the University of South Carolina. She has 15 years of experience working and leading in health sciences libraries.You can find out more information at: https://soar.usa.edu/jihse/Feel free to contact Dr. Evener at: jevener1@usf.EduSpecial thanks to both our sponsors, The NPTE Final Frontier, and Varela Financial! If you are taking the NPTE or are teaching those about to take the NPTE, visit the NPTE FInal Frontier at www.NPTEFF.com and use code "HET" for 10% off all purchases at the website...and BREAKING NEWS!!!! They now have an OCS review option as well... You're welcome! You can also reach out to them on Instagram @npteff If you're a PT and you have student loan debt, you gotta talk to these guys. What makes them unique is that they view financial planning as like running hurdles on a track. And for PTs, the first hurdle many of us run into is student loan debt. Varela Financial will help you get over that hurdle. They not only take the time to explain to you which plans you individually qualify for and how those plans work, but they ALSO take the time to show you what YOUR individual case looks like mapped out within each option. So if you're looking for help on your student loan debt, or any area of your personal finances, we highly recommend working with them. You can check out Varela Financial out at varelafinancial.com. Feel free to reach out to us at: http://healthcareeducationtransformationpodcast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/HETPodcast https://twitter.com/HETpodcast Instagram: @hetpodcast @dawnbrown_pt @pteducator @dawnmagnusson31 @farleyschweighart @mail.in.stew.art @ujima_institute For more information on how we can optimize and standardize healthcare education and delivery, subscribe to the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

This week Tayla is joined by Taylor St. Pierre from the University of Hartford Libraries and Lisa Underhill from Johnson and Wales University to talk to them about their experience working in an academic library. They discuss how academic libraries are different from the public library as well as what makes their specific institutions unique. They also talk about Star Wars novels, shows with new seasons out now, and futurist non-fiction. During The Last Chapter they talk about listening to music while reading. Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your topic suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Latinist by Mark Prins The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler Blockchain: The Next Everything by Stephen P. Williams Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn AV Succession (2018- ) The Dressmaker (2015) The Righteous Gemstones (2019- ) That Sugar Film (2014) RuPaul's Drag Race (2009- ) The Witcher (2019- ) Yellowstone (2018- ) Outlander (2014- ) The White Queen (2013) Other Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

In this episode, Vanderbilt librarian Melissa Mallon brings us an interview with another Vanderbilt librarian about his new book on open educational resources. Andrew Wesolek is the director of digital scholarship and scholarly communication at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University. He is also the co-author, along with Jonathan Lashley and Anne Langley, of the new book OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians, published in 2018 by Pacific University Press. OER stands for “open educational resources.” These are educational resources, including but not limited to textbooks, that are published in ways that allow students and instructors to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute them, all for free. In the interview, Andy makes the case for the value of open educational resources to higher education, in terms of both affordability and student learning, and he offers advice for faculty and librarians interested in getting started using and creating open educational resources. Links • OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians (Pacific University, 2018), https://commons.pacificu.edu/pup/3/ • Digital Scholarship and Communications Office (DiSC) at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/scholarly/ • OpenStax, https://openstax.org/ • Directory of Open Access Journals, https://doaj.org/ • Leading Lines Ep. 36: Melissa Mallon, http://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-36melissa-mallon/

In this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, brings us an interview about teaching critical media literacy. The interview features Natasha Casey, a communications professor at Blackburn College in Illinois, and Spencer Brayton, library manager at Waubonsee Community College, also in Illinois. While Brayton was at Blackburn College, he and Casey collaborated to bring their respective fields—information literacy and media literacy—together, developing and team teaching a course on media and information literacy. The course took at a critical look at the topics, meaning that there was a particular focus to issues of power and control in digital media. Links: •Natasha Casey’s blog, No Silos, http://www.natashacasey.com/mil-blog •Spencer Brayton’s blog, Converging Spaces, https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/ •@NatashaCaseyIRL, http://twitter.com/NatashaCaseyIRL •@brayton_spencer, http://twitter.com/brayton_spencer •RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, the 2008 open-source documentary directed by Brett Gaylor and featuring the DJ Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, https://vimeo.com/8040182 •Melissa Mallon’s new book, The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning, https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P

In this episode, we feature an interview with one of our own. Melissa Mallon, director of the Peabody Library and director of liaison and instruction services here at Vanderbilt, has a new book out, and my Center for Teaching colleague Stacey Johnson had a lively conversation with Melissa about the book. Part of Melissa’s work at Vanderbilt focuses on faculty-librarian partnerships to support student learning, particularly research and digital literacy skills. That’s what her book is about, the role librarians can play in helping students develop these skills. She and Stacey talk about that role, and the increasing importance of critical media literacy. Links • Melissa Mallon’s website, http://www.melissamallon.com/ • @librarianliss on Twitter, https://twitter.com/librarianliss • #vandylibraryfellows sharing propaganda on Twitter, https://twitter.com/search?q=%23vandylibraryfellows&src=typd • The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning, published by Libraries Unlimited, https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P

Mind Grapes: Lots on our post-holiday mind grapes, including surprises from Brandon Sanderson and social commentary from Margaret Atwood; cooking with ratios; playing very old video games; and, of course, our thoughts on The Hobbit (spoiler alert: we loved it, and we couldn't be happier about Tauriel). Class Z(ed): Bits and bites on professional development, including learning about assessment, perception, and camaraderie at Academic Librarians in Public Service; getting experience running the Cool Tools Unconference; our jobs this term; and our final library school courses.

Listen to the podcast (mp3, ~58 minutes)This month we're joined by Julie Cornett, librarian and instructor from Cerro Coso Community College in California. We talk about the particular challenges of managing an instruction program and teaching information literacy at a community college, and how Julie handles being the sole librarian at a 3000 FTE institution with multiple campuses. Also: Jason recommends the book Becoming confident teachers: a guide for Academic Librarians (Claire McGuinness)