The LibParlor Podcast

Description: In this episode, we chat with special guest Ludi Price about the intersection of fan studies and library and information sciences. We talk about the interdisciplinary nature of librarianship, myths about researching “unserious” topics, and how to explore passion projects. 

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Ludi Price is a visiting lecturer in Library Science at the University of London, City St Georges. She is a sometime librarian, and previously the Far Eastern Cataloger and the librarian for China and Asia, SOAS University of London. Ludi is also co-founder of the FanLIS Project, which aims to build bridges between fandom, fan studies, and LIS.

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In this open peer review episode, host Amber Sewell offers up another of her articles, this time for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing, for discussion. Her article about scholarly podcasting is reviewed by Hannah McGregor, who brings years of experience with the medium as a creator, producer, and scholar. Lori Beckstead returns as guest host to facilitate this productive conversation.

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Hannah McGregorhttps://www.ohwitchplease.ca/material-girls (she/they) is Associate Professor and Director of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, Canada, Their research focuses on the intersections of publishing and social change, with a focus on scholarly podcasting. She cohosts Material Girls, a pop culture podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist, and The SpokenWeb Podcast, a collaborative research output of the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership; she is also the co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network. Their books include A Sentimental Education (WLUP 2022), Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century, co-authored with Lori Beckstead and Ian M. Cook (Bloomsbury 2024), and Clever Girl, a queer feminist reevaluation of Jurassic Park (ECW 2024).

Lori Beckstead is the co-host and co-producer of The Podcast Studies Podcast and an associate professor of sound and audio at the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada.

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In this episode, we chat with recently graduated MLIS student Carrieann Cahall about their experience leading a research project while still getting their degree, how well their coursework prepared them (or didn’t) for academic research, and how the process has shaped her outlook on her future as an academic librarian.

Guest: Carrieann Cahall (she/they) is a Teaching and Learning Specialist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she supports librarians, like Amber, in curricular and co-curricular instruction. Carrieann is also a recent graduate of the MSLIS program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their research interests include high achiever narratives in academia and the impact of intergenerational trauma on learning.

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Description: In this episode, we talk with a team from New York University who have recently published on using collaborative autoethnography as a research method. We learn about how the team chose to implement this practice, lessons learned, and tips for information professionals interested in pursuing autoethnography themselves.

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Guests:

Dawn Cadogan (she/her) is an Assistant Curator and Librarian for Education & Human Development at New York University. Her research interest focuses on the relationship between student motivation, research practices, and information literacy. 

Stephen Maher (he/him), MSIS, LMSW, is an Assistant Curator and the Librarian for Social Work and Psychology at New York University. He holds a Master of Information Science degree, with a concentration in information management and policy, from the University at Albany, State University of New York and is a licensed social worker with a Master of Science degree in Social Work from NYU. Stephen’s research interests center on curiosity and its role in the integration of mental health and social services in libraries as well as information literacy in social work education.

Stacy Torian (she/her) is Assistant Curator and a Librarian for Health Sciences at New York University. She is a graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her interests include critical librarianship, health equity, and poetry as a liberatory force.

Brynne Campbell Rice (she/her), MA, MS, MLIS is an Assistant Curator and Librarian for Health Sciences at New York University.  She holds an M.S. in Adolescent Education (Biology) from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in Food Studies from NYU, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Long Island University’s Palmer School.  A former high school chemistry teacher and current nursing librarian, her research interests focus on information literacy as it relates to science, nutrition, and health.  She is particularly interested in issues of credibility, authority, and ways of knowing at the intersections of health equity and health misinformation.  

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Citation: Sewell, A. (2024). Ep. 04: Collaborative autoethnography as research method [Audio podcast episode]. The LibParlor Podcast.

In this Parlor Chat, we talk with Emily Ford about her experiences and research on open peer review. We chat about how open peer review helps us re-envision peer review as an act of community, how it can help with reviewer imposter syndrome, and how to address challenges that an open peer review model can face with regard to equity. 

*As a disclaimer, this episode was recorded and edited in December 2023, but due to life events, publication was delayed. I hope your spring semesters are off to a good start!

Have any follow-up questions, or ideas for future episodes? Send them to [email protected].

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Citation: Sewell, A. (2024). Ep. 03: Open peer review in LIS with Emily Ford [Audio podcast episode]. The LibParlor Podcast. [link to episode page]

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For those who didn’t hear the pre-conference podcast Amber and guest Charissa Powell created for the Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium last year, we are featuring it in The LibParlor Podcast stream! This episode is a behind the scenes look at the creation of the podcast, as well as what it was like to record the first open peer review episode.

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In this Parlor Chat, our episodes about demystifying research and scholarship processes, Amber sits down with the Library Writing Cooperative, a group of librarians who have created a space for library workers to share their work and ideas. We’ll learn about how they got started, their First Draft Matchmaker Program, and get a tease about their next initiative, National Article Writing Month!

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In this pilot episode, host Amber Sewell offers up her instructional design case study about building an augmented reality learning experience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for discussion. Peer reviewer Charissa Powell gives her critiques and suggestions, and guest host Lori Beckstead provides valuable perspective from outside the discipline.

Lori Beckstead is the co-host and co-producer of The Podcast Studies Podcast and an associate professor of sound and audio at the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada.

Charissa Powell (she/her) is the Head of the Student Success and Curriculum Partnerships Department at the Library, Museums and Press at the University of Delaware. Some of her research interests include information privilege and feminist pedagogy. She edited, with Ingrid Ruffin, The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education. Charissa is also co-founder and editor of The Librarian Parlor (libparlor.com), a community for researching librarians. You can find her on Twitter @charissaapowell.

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Welcome to The LibParlor Podcast, an open peer review podcast for information professionals interested in a feminist, care-based approach to research. Hosted by Amber Sewell and produced in collaboration with The Librarian Parlor, full-length episodes will feature researchers undergoing open peer review, while minisodes will further the aim of demystifying the process behind scholarship by featuring interviews, Q&As, and more. Subscribe to catch our pilot episode next Friday, September 16th, and consider submitting your work on our website!

Please see our website, libparlor.com/podcast for transcripts and more!

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