The new LOUIS Strategic Plan was just approved last week🎉! So in this episode Jodi Duet, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academics at Fletcher Technical Community College and Chair of the LOUIS Strategic Planning Working Group, and Laurie Blandino, Executive Director of LOUIS, will join us to talk about the process of creating the Strategic Plan. Jodi and Laurie will discuss the accomplishments of the Strategic Planning Working Group, what they learned while visiting member libraries, and what the LOUIS Strategic Plan means for the future of LOUIS.
And what's more, Jodi and Laurie team up to try to win a game of Listen with LOUIS Trivia!

In this episode we are joined by Jeffrey Stepp, Cataloger/System

In this episode we interview Victor Sanchez, Electronic Resources Manager at LOUIS. This episode is part of our "Learn About the LOUIS Team" series, and in it we will talk with Victor about what it's like to work on the LOUIS Team -- what he does in his daily job duties, what skills he's learned while working with LOUIS, and what he wishes more people knew about LOUIS.

Plus, Victor will talk about his passion for Travel and recent trips to Colombia and Japan in an edition of Pitch Your Passion!

Are you curious about how much climate change might affect your library?

So was Dr. Edward Benoit, Associate Director and Associate Professor at LSU's School of Information Studies. To help answer that question, Dr. Benoit and several co-PIs have been working on PROTECCT-GLAM, a project to "develop a national categorical climate change risk assessment scale for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)," as per the project website. 

Join us as we learn from Kat Williamson, Librarian at Centenary College, and our first ever student on the podcast, SGA Vice President of Institutional Affairs at Centenary, Cayman Hawkins. Kat and Cayman talk about how they conceived of and created a career closet at Centenary, a place where students can check out clothing they may need for an interview or other important occasion. Kat and Cayman also share their passion in our "Pitch Your Passion" episode, which for both of them happens to be sports!

LUC 2023 was a huge success and so much fun, so we wanted to share some sounds from the conference with you in this episode.

During the conference, Rob Stephens interviewed several conference attendees about their experience with the LOUIS Users Conference. We hope you enjoy!

In this episode, hear Sarah Simms and Hayley Johnson, both librarians at LSU Libraries, talk about why they are driven to do research, how they find research inquiries, why they choose to research with a partner, and so much more!
Sarah and Hayley will also talk about their recently published book, Beneath Heavy Pines All in World War II: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston.

Recently LOUIS has redesigned our website to improve navigation, accessibility, and design. In this episode, Elizabeth Joan Kelly joins us to talk about the process of redesigning louislibraries.org.

If you're interested in refreshing your library's website, give this a listen to hear the process LOUIS went through!

Plus, hear Elizabeth talk about her passion for music, and her endeavors as a composer and radio program host.+

If you're considering implementing or creating OER materials in an academic setting, this episode is for you! We spoke with three guests about Creating OER, or Open Education Resources:

Emily gives a definition of OER and talks about how and why LOUIS, a library consortium, does work in this area. Amelia and Chresancio talk about their experiences working in a cohort to create OER textbooks.

Then, Amelia and Chresancio talk about the work of creating an OER podcast, Learn with Podcasts: World Civilization 1, that was funded by a Louisiana Board of Regents eLearning Innovation Grant. That podcast can be heard on Spotify or YouTube.

Listen to "Learn with Podcasts: World Civilization 1" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5rRY211SMrKeG7FHd5G2sN

Listen to "Learn with Podcasts: World Civilization 1" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ldccbtec