PaLAunchPod

This month Brian Fulton talks with Molly Wolf, who is the founder and curator of the Sexuality Archives at Widener University. Our discussion deals with how the archive got its start at the university, items in their collection and how they use social media in promoting the archive. With it being April Fool’s Day, she is asked to share with you a funny story that deals with her work.

In addition to her work with the Sexuality Archives, Molly also is a librarian at the Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener.

To read more about the Sexuality Archives visit - http://www.widener.edu/about/campus_resources/wolfgram_library/sexarchives/default.aspx

The Sexuality Archives is also on social media - give them a like and a follow.

Twitter - @SexualArchives

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/widenersexarchives/

Episode 2 part 2 Star Program Pilot Group

An interview with the key members of PA Forward Star Program pilot group: Barbara McGary (Executive Director of the James V. Brown Library), Dana Brigandi (Public Relations and Community Partnership at James V. Brown Library), and Lis Miranda (Director of the Blossburg Memorial Library).

Episode 2 part 1

An interview with the PaLA Academy of Leadership Studies (PALS) Star Library Team: Joann Eichenlaub (Assistant Director of the Roger and Peggy Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology), Melissa Foltz(Director of the Manheim Community Library in Lancaster County), and Ed Wolf (Instructional/Reference Librarian at the Bethel Park Public Library, in Allegheny County).

Team members also valuable to the success of the program: Anne Bramblett (Director of West Pittston Library) and Elizabeth Shoemaker (formerly at University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library.

Betty Lawson has been the Children's Librarian at the Wayne County Public Library in Honesdale, Pa for the past 14 years. After attending college at the State University of New York at Delhi, she moved to Florida where she became the Director of Admissions at a private school for special education. Before finding her current library position, she was a stay at home mother. Her love of reading to her own 3 children first led to a volunteer position coordinating storytimes at her present library. She now oversees the children's department, but her specific concentration is programming for children birth -5 years old. For the past 3 years, Betty has been on the steering committee of the statewide early literacy initiative, "Cruise Into Kindergarten." Over the years she has become passionate about her library outreach to struggling families and the incarcerated. In her spare time, she likes to read, bake, kayak and exercise...in that order! She is madly in love with her job.