Circulating Ideas - Issue #0
Welcome to the Circulating Ideas newsletter! The Circulating Ideas podcast facilitates conversations with the innovative people and ideas inspiring libraries to grow and thrive in the 21st century, and this newsletter will be released in conjunction with new episodes of the show to provide more context and depth to the associated episode.
In this inaugural "zero" issue, I'm posting links to the podcast episodes that have been released so far in 2021, and the next issue will follow the upcoming Episode 200, which also marks the 10th anniversary of the podcast!
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199: The Library’s Guide to Graphic Novels – Circulating Ideas — circulatingideas.com Steve chats with John Ballestro, editor of The Library's Guide to Graphic Novels, along with many of the contributors, to discuss the ever-changing ways that graphic novels are created, packaged, marketed, and released, exploring such topics as the history of comics, collection development, cataloging, and specialized resources. The Library's Guide to Graphic Novels Today’s show…
198: Imbolo Mbue – Circulating Ideas — circulatingideas.com Steve chats with Imbolo Mbue, author of How Beautiful We Were and Behold the Dreamers, about how a library display helped inspire her to start writing, the characters and themes she tackles in her work, writing as catharsis, and what it's like to get a phone call from Oprah. IMBOLO MBUE is the author of…
197: ALA Presidential Candidates 2021 – Circulating Ideas — circulatingideas.com Steve chats with the three 2021 candidates for American Library Association President: Stacey Aldrich, Ed Garcia, and Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada. Read the transcript! Stacey Aldrich has more than 20 years of library experience, and is currently the State Librarian of Hawaii. Prior to Hawaii, she served as the Deputy Secretary for the Office of Commonwealth Libraries…
196: Noah Lenstra – Circulating Ideas — circulatingideas.com Steve chats with Noah Lenstra, author of Healthy Living at the Library, about the Let's Move in Libraries initiative, why it's important to work with community partners, examples of health literacy programming, and how libraries have adapted their programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Noah Lenstra started Let's Move in Libraries in 2016 at the…
195: Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara – Circulating Ideas — circulatingideas.com Steve chats with Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara, authors of Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: a User Experience Approach, about how they met and decided to write a book together, how the New York Public Library lions guided their thinking, and the myriad issues libraries need to consider to prepare for future change. CALLAN…
I am in a multi-year project (going back many many years) to provide transcripts for each episode of the show. This makes the content of the episodes more accessible, searchable, and findable!