Check It Out!

Chapter 1 – Bill Bernat

Bill Bernat has been dealing with depression – his own and others' – for a long time.

Through his experience, Bernat has developed an approach – a perspective – on depression that manages to be both profound and funny at the same time. He offers tips on how to deal with depression, how to talk about it and perhaps most importantly, how to help people who aren't' depressed talk to people who are.

Bernat has shared his thoughts on stage at TEDxSnoIsleLibraries 2017 and his talk was picked up by TED.com.

Chapter 1 length: 51:43

Chapter 1 links

• Tech articles by Bill Bernat
• LinkedIn profile
• stayawesome.com
• Ideas.Ted.com
• Twitter accounts
  • @ITSystemsMan
  • @morelesscrazy
• Bill Bernat on The Moth
• 1996 open-mic event at The New Zoo tavern in San Francisco tavern
• Seattle Fringe Festival article
• The Stability Network
• NAMI Washington
• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• Bhagavad Gita

Chapter 2 – Staff Spotlight on Lois Langer Thompson

In December 2018, Lois Langer Thompson took over as executive director for Sno-Isle Libraries. A native of Minneapolis, Thompson brings 30 years of experience with the Hennepin County Library and 10 years as its director. Serving as a substitute librarian, children's librarian, adult services, branch manager and director gives Thompson valuable perspective on public libraries.

Chapter 2 length: 04:54

Chapter 2 links

• Hennepin County Library

Chapter 1: Jack Archibald and breaking glass

The Pacific Northwest has a growing number of famous glass makers, but Jack Archibald doesn't count himself as among that group.

"I call myself a glass breaker. It has taken me years to accept the mantle of 'artist,'" Archibald says.

Regardless of the title, Archibald has broken and reassembled glass that is now on display in public buildings across the West in the form of stained-glass windows. From his Camano Island studio, Archibald has hundreds of works interacting with light from the Camano Island Library to paired 1,000-square-foot murals, "Escher's Elevator" and "Paradigm Shift," at Southern Utah University.

Chapter 1 length: 1:03:55

Chapter 1 links

• Archibald Glass
• Fire and Glass (documentary) by Anthony Goday
• Washington State Arts Commission
• Ed Carpenter
• Skeeter Daddle Diaries
• Crab Cracker
• Camano Art Association
• Camano Studio Tour
• Friends of Camano State Park
• Camano Island Library window

Chapter 2: Stewardship Spotlight – The environment, budget and libraries with Brian Rush

Sno-Isle Libraries Facilities Manager Brian Rush's goals are to provide the best possible service while reducing costs and environmental impacts. For Rush, that means reviewing everything that relates to the 23 community libraries and the service center.

As an example, Rush was able to increase the frequency that buildings are cleaned while saving the library district more than $100,000 all while shifting to certified green products and processes. By looking at the waste stream coming from the libraries, Rush was able to divert a substantial percentage from landfills to recycling services.

Chapter 2 length: 4:44

Chapter 2 links

• Cedar Grove
• Facilities pros at Sno-Isle Libraries
• Snohomish Library project

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Jim Hills is the library district's public information manager, a storyteller who claims to still have some ink in his veins from familial connections with, and previous-career infusions from, the newspaper biz.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

Chapter 1: Kathy Coffey and community leadership

Kathy Coffey, Executive Director of Leadership Snohomish County (LSC), has more than a little experience in supporting communities and fostering leadership growth.

Besides leading LSC, Kathy serves as a member of the city of Lynnwood's Human Services Commission. She's a South Everett–Mukilteo Rotarian and board member of Leadership Launch, which focuses on developing student leaders. Kathy also worked for the Edmonds Community College Foundation and was development relations coordinator at Bastyr University.

Kathy was also a speaker at the 2017 TEDxSno-IsleLibraries.

Her subject? Communities and leadership, of course.

Chapter length: 47:17

Chapter 1 links

• Leadership Snohomish County
• LinkedIn profile
• TEDxSnoIsleLibraries talk
• Women in leadership
• Step Up 2018
• Leadership Launch
• South Everett–Mukilteo Rotary
• Lynnwood Human Services Commission
• Edmonds Community College Foundation
• Bastyr University
• lynda.com
• Libby
• Body

Chapter 2: Book Notes with Grant Perrigo

Librarian Grant Perrigo, a member of the Sno-Isle Libraries Readers' Services team, shares a couple of suggestions for our podcast listeners.

Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer

Martin is just a regular computer programmer who stumbles across a computer text file that controls all human existence. Height, weight, wealth, position on the planet, or in time can be changed with a simple keystroke. Presented with this ethical and moral quandary, Martin finds himself on the wrong side of the law and does what any self-respecting nerd would do. He travels back in time to England in the middle ages, to try is trade at being a real wizard.

Descender by Jeff Lemire

This graphic novel by the author of Sweet Tooth and Animal Man is a fantastic example of sci-fi world building. Robots and Humans (and Aliens) are locked in a war, and the key to solving it might be a small boy android. With elements of the film AI and parts of the graphic novel Saga by Brian K Vaughan, this recently completed series will appeal to fans of both.

Chapter length: 2:59

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev. and several positions in radio and TV.

Paul Pitkin is Director of the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation. He also plays guitar, along with several other instruments, sings and writes music.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

Chapter 1: Jonalyn Woolf-Ivory

Sno-Isle Libraries Executive Director Jonalyn Woolf-Ivory retires at the end of November 2018 after 33 years of service and the past 16 years leading the organization. Jonalyn discusses her early years in Deming, Wash., as the daughter of the local postmaster as well as some of her most gratifying moments as library executive director. Jonalyn will be missed but is excited about her successor, Lois Langer Thompson, who will assume leadership beginning in December.

The library executive director reports to an appointed seven-member board of trustees. This board provides policy oversight for the two-county library district. Sno-Isle Libraries delivers library services and resources to a population of approximately 750,000 residents across Snohomish and Island counties.

Chapter links

Jonalyn's hometown, Deming, Wash.

• American FactFinder on Deming
• Deming history, courtesy of Whatcom County Library System
• Livability

News

• Sno-Isle Libraries executive director retiring after 33 years

Board and commissions

• Compass Health Board of Directors
• Economic Alliance Snohomish County
• Leadership Snohomish County

Recent awards, honors and recognitions

• Jonalyn honored with the 2018 Elson S. Floyd Award by the Economic Alliance Snohomish County for her commitment to communities and the region.
• Sno-Isle Libraries received 2018 Verdant Award for Issues That Matter forum series. The Issues That Matter community forums convene audiences for civil discussions on tough topics.
• In 2017, Washington State Auditor's Office issued its 30th clean annual audit in a row to Sno-Isle Libraries.
• Washington Association of School Administrators Region 109 bestowed its 2017 Community Leadership Award on Sno-Isle Libraries.
• Humanities Washington honored Sno-Isle Libraries with the 2016 Humanities Washington Award.
• Sno-Isle Libraries garners 2016 "Top Innovator" award for TEDxSnoIsleLibraries from the Urban Libraries Council.
• Green Seal certification received in 2014 by Sno-Isle Libraries in recognition of healthy and sustainable cleaning practices.

Videos

• Jonalyn says … Children at storytime are starting a library adventure video, 56 sec.
• Serving You: Sno-Isle Libraries, 7 min. 32 sec.
• Why early literacy matters video by Reach Out and Read, 2 min. 36 sec.
• Why we should all be reading aloud to children, Rebecca Bellingham , TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet, 9 min. 29 sec.
• Library Events Intrigue, Inspire, Educate, 1 min. 31 sec.
• Third Grade Reading Challenge Finals 2018, 2 min. 25 sec.

Values

• Sno-Isle Libraries Strategic Priorities
• Early learning through Sno-Isle Libraries
• What is Early Literacy?
• How to Cradle Early Literacy: A Guide for Parents

Leadership

• Sno-Isle Libraries Board of Trustees
• Library funding

Library services and events

• Bringing the library to the children and others with Library on wheels
• Issues That Matter forums
• Living with Brain Injuries forum Dec. 3, 2017, audio, 1 hour, 35 minutes, 39 sec.
• Issues That Matter: Let's Talk Mental Health
• Issues That Matter: Age-related Mental Health
• Issues That Matter: Caregiving and Self-care
• Issues That Matter: Depression and Suicide
• Issues That Matter: Substance Abuse
• Issues That Matter: Trauma
• Issues That Matter: Youth Mental Health
• TEDxSnoIsleLibraries
• Future library brick-and-mortar needs: 2016-2025 Capital Facilities Plan

Library Volunteers and Service Award Winners

• Library volunteer opportunities
• Library volunteer service award winners
• Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation
• Washington State University
• Cougar gold (cheese)
• Cougar Gold Cheese in a Can is Something You Should Try

Education

• Washington State University
• University of Washington, Masters in Information Library and Information Sciences

Chapter 2: Romancing the genre of romance

Check It Out! reporter Abe Martinez interviews Sno-Isle Libraries librarian Jackie Parker to get the scoop on why romance is so popular. Jackie is the Lead Librarian for Readers' Services.

• 11 Romance Readers Reveal Why They Love The Genre – Bustle
• What Makes Romance Novels So Appealing To Women?
• Why American Culture Is So Obsessed With Romantic Love
• Why Amish Romance Novels Are So Popular | Intellectual Takeout
• Why Can't Romance Novels Get Any Love? | Arts & Culture
• Romance Writers of America
• Library Staff Blog, Picks, Suggestions and a few comments

Episode host

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

Chapter 1: Kenn Dickinson and the transition game

Kenn Dickinson is a former NCAA and European professional basketball player. Kenn is the president of Fast Break Executive Business Coaching, a Mukilteo-based firm that coaches managers and executives to help transform their businesses and careers.

In 2015, Kenn delivered a talk for TEDxSnoIsleLibraries about how to apply the mindset of elite athletes to achieve success in business and the corporate world. Chapter length: 39:11

Chapter 1 links

• The Secret of Elite Athletes (Kenn's TEDxSnoIsleLibraries talk)
• Five Must-Have Principles of Servant Leadership
• What is Servant Leadership?
• Kenn's LinkedIn profile

Chapter 2: Shaelynn Charvet Bates on reading, children and commitment to community

Shaelynn Charvet Bates and her family are passionate customers of the Lake Stevens Library. She is also an active member of the community serving as chair of the library advisory board, volunteering with the Friends of the Lake Stevens Library and working as a school librarian for the Snohomish School District. Chapter length: 5:20

Chapter 2 links

• Riverview Elementary contact
• Lake Stevens Library Board
• Lake Stevens needs a new library, board tells city council

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Cindy Tingley is an instructional developer with Sno-Isle Libraries. Through experience as a radio DJ, a police officer in Key West, Fla., certified technology instructor and Usui Reiki trainer, the common thread is Cindy loves teaching new skills.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

Chapter 1

Award-winning author, diversity trainer and naturalized U.S. citizen Seconde Nimenya joins hosts Cindy Tingley and Ken Harvey for a wide-ranging discussion about her 2016 TEDx talk, journey from her birthplace in Burundi, Africa to the Pacific Northwest of the United States, life lessons on resilience and tolerance to her discovery of libraries when she entered university. Chapter length: 51:31

Chapter 2 – Library Surprise with Rilee Louangphakdy

Rilee explores the Book-a-Librarian service available through Sno-Isle Libraries and how it can help with everything from homework to how to use your phone to access library materials. Chapter length: 3:32

Chapter 1 links

Seconde Nimenya, MBA

• Award-winning author and diversity speaker

Check out free copies of Seconde's books at Sno-Isle Libraries:

• Evolving Through Adversity: How to Overcome Obstacles, Discover your Passion, and Honor your True Self (Nonfiction, available in print and audiobook) How do you discover who you are and honor your true self when faced with adversity? How do you use it to evolve and achieve your life purpose? Told with wit and charisma, this book is a story about breaking free and being resilient by accepting and honoring who you are. Readers will find the opportunity to reflect on how childhood and family patterns may have impacted their lives, and how to break or change the negative patterns of the cycle.
• Hand to Hold (Fiction, available in print and audiobook) This is the tale of a young Ethiopian orphan, adopted at five years old and brought to the United States of America. Under her new parents' love and care, she blooms and tries to assimilate to her new home, but she also finds herself longing to know her biological parents, and what happened to them!
• "Hand to Hold" Workbook The companion leadership workbook is available for purchase on her website.

TEDxSnoIsleLibraries Talk

• Join the thousands of viewers who have checked out Seconde's TEDxSnoIsleLibraries talk on YouTube.

2017 Seeds of Hope Award

• Seconde was awarded the 2017 Seeds of Hope award by the Snohomish County RESULTS group. RESULTS is a non-profit organization that uses community voices to bring an end to poverty. There are more than 100 chapter locations across the nation. Check out the YouTube video to see why she received the award.

Edmonds Center of the Arts

• ECA presents an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, provides space, production management, technical expertise for a variety of community partners and rental clients and serves more than 75,000 patrons a year. Seconde's TEDxSnoIsleLibraries talk was one of many hosted at the Edmonds Center of the Arts in November 2016.

University of Burundi

• While Seconde attended the University of Burundi, she discovered the world of libraries. If you aren't fluent in French, we recommend hitting the translate button when you visit the university's website!

University of Phoenix

• Seconde attended the University of Phoenix to earn her Master of Business Administration degree.

Self-help books

• Self-help books are one of Seconde's favorite genres; we enjoy them too, which is why we have more than 1,000 books in this genre. Please help yourself to our catalog and look for the right self-help book for you!

Burundi Civil War

• Learn more about the civil war that Seconde mentioned when moving out of her native country.

RRU model

• RRU is a transformational model that Seconde has developed and uses in her books, talks and It stands for Reflect, Rectify and Unite. If you're interested in learning more, you can check out her books through our catalog or purchase them through her website!

Seconde Nimenya's website

• Aside from her books, Seconde's website also has loads of other content for you to explore, including a blog and her own podcast series! Go check out her website, and prepare yourself for the digital journal to evolving yourself!

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Cindy Tingley is an instructional developer with Sno-Isle Libraries. Through experience as a radio DJ, a police officer in Key West, Fla., certified technology instructor and Usui Reiki trainer, the common thread is Cindy loves teaching new skills.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

It seems like Marti Anamosa and Terry Lippincott grew up together, it just happened to be in separate parts of the country.

Marti is a native of Albuquerque, N.M. and now a Whidbey Island resident, while Terry is from Everett and now resides in Snohomish. They recount their early days from a simpler time, how each came to love reading and how that put them on paths to significant leadership roles supporting Sno-Isle Libraries.

Lippincott serves as President of the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation, the same position that Anamosa held before joining the Sno-Isle Libraries Board of Trustees where she now serves as president.

Episode links

• Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation
• Sno-Isle Libraries Board of Trustees
• BBQ in Snohomish

Jeff Ericson started working at age 12 and found retirement-level success by the time he was 30. What the avowed entrepreneur says that he hadn't discovered, despite his theological education, was fulfillment. In his habitual jump-first, look-second approach, Ericson says he uprooted his family and moved to Camano Island from Tucson, Ariz. Working, however, turned out to be more fun than golf so he started Camano Island Coffee Co. and building a way to give back more than a great cup of coffee.

Episode links

• Camano Island Coffee Co.
• Frozen X-plosion
• Northwest University
• TEDxSnoIsleLibraries

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Cindy Tingley is an instructional developer with Sno-Isle Libraries. Through experience as a radio DJ, a police officer in Key West, Fla., certified technology instructor nd Usui Reiki trainer, the common thread is Cindy loves teaching new skills.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

Librarian Rob Branigin's interests range from family roots to outer space. Branigin, along with co-hosts Ken Harvey and Cindy Tingley, delves into genealogy, Star Trek and more. The Indiana native discusses his own discovery of the library's rich resources that can help satisfy that need for finding one's familial connections. An avowed Trekkie, Branigin also boldly goes into his assessment of the original series, "The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager."

Episode links

• Franklin, Ind.
• Dekalb hybrid corn hat
• Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
• Franklin College
• La Porte County Public Library
• Rob Branigin email
• Holiday Road
• Sno-Isle Ancestry library edition
• Star Trek
• The Next Generation
• Deep Space Nine
• Voyager
• The Beatles Forever

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Cindy Tingley is an instructional developer with Sno-Isle Libraries. Through experience as a radio DJ, a police officer in Key West, Fla., certified technology instructor and Usui Reiki trainer, the common thread is Cindy loves teaching new skills.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.

As Deputy Director of Sno-Isle Libraries, does she get to wear a badge shaped like a star?

Kendra Trachta shares the answer to that question and what it's like to oversee the people and operations at 23 community libraries spread across two counties. The Texas transplant also talks about the library district's strategic priorities, the positive impacts libraries have on customers and communities and … the family dog.

Episode links

• Sno-Isle Libraries Strategic Priorities
• Sno-Isle Libraries locations
• University of Texas-Austin
• Institute of Texan Cultures
• San Antonio Library
• Scottish terrier
• Book-a-Librarian
• Punxsutawney
• Storytime
• Issues That Matter
• WorkSource Rapid Response
• Small Business Administration
• Mod Podge

Episode hosts

Ken Harvey is Communications Director for Sno-Isle Libraries. Ken brings broad professional experience from his service with Community Transit, Sound Transit, the city of Reno, Nev., and several positions in radio and TV.

Cindy Tingley is an instructional developer with Sno-Isle Libraries. Through experience as a radio DJ, a police officer in Key West, Fla., certified technology instructor and Usui Reiki trainer, the common thread is Cindy loves teaching new skills.

Episode sponsors

The Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation proudly supports the innovative work of Sno-Isle Libraries through private donations.

Edmonds Center for the Arts provides an array of outstanding performing artists from around the world, hosts events and serves more than 75,000 patrons annually.