Patron Driven

Patron Driven

By Choice. Hurricane Harvey drowned the city of Houston under 51 inches of rain. Forty-two of those inches flooded the Lone Star College - Kingwood library. This is the story of their two-year odyssey to rebuild.Society & Culture
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Patron Driven episodes

  • Episode 5: Learning Commons
    Twenty-two months after Hurricane Harvey Anne, Allison, Mikha, and Jennifer begin offering services at their completely rebuilt--and reimagined--learning commons. But the new space and its wealth of technology mean new challenges for the staff. How will they adapt? And most of all, what does it mean to them to have worked so hard and achieved so much, only to have the coronavirus change their day-to-day yet again?
    43 min
  • Episode 4: Vision Tours
    Mikha, Anne, Allison, and Jennifer begin to envision the future of their library. They visit a dozen colleges and universities around Houston for inspiration and compile all of their ideas in a Vision Book. But can they convince the administration to follow their lead? What about the architects?
    30 min
  • Episode 3: Fluid
    Jennifer, Allison, Mikha, and Anne start up the semester in the weeks after the flood. Their library undergoes a variety of changes, as do their jobs and their relationships with each other.
    The song Sentinel is by Kai Engel and is used under a CC-BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can find Sentinel on the freemusicarchive at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Satin_1564/Kai_Engel_-_Satin_-_04_Sentinel_1668
    The song Cobweb Morning is by Kai Engel and is used under a CC-BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can find Cobweb Morning on the freemusicarchive at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Four__Fall/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Four_-_Fall_-_04_Cobweb_Morning
    The song Cobweb Morning is by Kai Engel and is used under a CC-BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can find Traffic on the freemusicarchive at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Traffic/Kai_Engel_-_Traffic
    35 min
  • Episode 2: The Deluge
    Hurricane Harvey makes landfall and Anne, Allison, Mikha, and Jennifer confront the destruction of their professional "home."
    The songs Laburnum and September are by Kai Engel and are used under a CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can find Laburnum on the freemusicarchive at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Four__Fall/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Four_-_Fall_-_01_Laburnum and September https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Four__Fall/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Four_-_Fall_-_02_September.
    31 min
  • Episode 1: Before The Storm
    Anne, Allison, Mikha, and Jennifer navigate their last day in the Lone Star College Kingwood library before Hurricane Harvey hits.
    The excerpt of the song November is by Kai Engel and is used under a CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can find November on the freemusicarchive at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Four__Fall/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Four_-_Fall_-_08_November.
    30 min
  • Patron Driven Trailer
    Patron Driven tells crowd-sourced library stories where the personal and professional meet. Season one tells the story of four library staffers whose library flooded during Hurricane Harvey and their two year odyssey to rebuild. Patron Driven arrives June 22, 2020. To learn more visit https://www.choice360.org/librarianship/patron-driven-main.
    4 min

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Crowd-sourced library stories where the personal and professional meet.