The Library Pros

Sarah Houghton, Library Director at the San Rafael Public Library in California is also known as the “Librarian in Black” library blogger.  She takes some time from her busy schedule to chat with Chris and Bob live via Google Dou video chat.  Sarah shares her motivations to start a blog, maintaining it and her longevity in the blogging world.  She also shares why she is the “Librarian in Black”.  

Librarian in Black on Twitter: @TheLIB

LIB Blog: http://librarianinblack.net/

In this episode, we speak with Steve Spataro from the East Hampton Library in East Hampton NY!  Steve has been the Head of Adult Reference at East Hampton for 7 years and a lover of Cinema since he was a young boy.  He has been involved in video preservation with the libraries and we were fortunate enough to have him sit and discussing all things video!!!

Episode 7 is our first foray into having guests who remote in via FaceTime (we also have the ability to use Skype, Google Duo and Google Hangouts).  Our guest, Pam Wells, Systems Librarian at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas talked to us about life as an Academic Librarian, relocating from the Northeast United States to Texas and all of the exciting digital projects she manages.  Oh, and there is the discussion of the furniture!!  The pictures will give part of the story away, but the Library looks great!!

In this episode, Chris Kretz, Academic Librarian and the host of “The Long Island History Project” Podcast joined us to talk about life as an academic librarian at Dowling College along with his journey into podcasting and our shared love of Long Island, New York History.  If you ever wanted to start or work on a podcast, or love Long Island history, then this episode is for you!

The Long island History Project Podcast: http://www.longislandhistoryproject.org/

UCSB Cylinder Archive

In this episode, Chris and Bob take a field trip to the  Levittown Public Library and visit their Innovation Station!  Chris and Bob spoke to Maryann Ferro, Levittown’s Assistant Director, Marie Andreski, Department Head of the Media /Innovation Station, Lisa Jean Santer, a Library Aide who works in the Innovation Station and Benjie Pancho, from Levittown’s IT Department.  We sit and laugh and talk about what it took to finance, build and run the first maker space on Long Island!  Please join us to see what it takes, and see the sink that Chris is in love with!!!

Levittown Public LIbrary’s Homepage

Levittown’s Innovation Page

Levittown Public Library’s Facebook Page

Levittown’s Twitter Feed

In this episode, Melanie Cardone-Leathers discusses her approach to working with local history archiving with technology along with developing iPad/iPhone training classes with Chris!  She also talks about how she and Chris researched the photos and documents that were connected to the Canton Free Library. (see Episode 2 if you are not familiar).   It is fun laughing with an old friend and colleague!

We had a technical problem with this recording.  The first segment is fine, the second and third segments are lower volume and there is an echo.  Apologies for the quality.

http://longwoodlibrary.org/page/bayles-local-history-room

In this episode, Chris is flying solo and taking the podcast on the road.  This episode is from beautiful Canton, New York at the Canton Free Library.  Chris talks to the library’s Director, Emily Owen and Christa Briggs, YA Services Specialist.  Hear about their “Living Library” local history event that took place on Saturday April 16th and how one of the Library Pros had a previously unknown link to their library’s history!! Thank you to Canton for hosting the event and inviting us to spend time with your lovely staff!!!

Canton Free Library: www.cantonfreelibrary.org

Canton Free Library on Facebook

Canton Free Library on Twitter

Welcome to our first Podcast!

The Library Pros are Chris and Bob. two library professionals who love to talk innovative library technology and how it is being put to use every day.  They hope that everyone will subscribe and enjoy not just the talk, but the laughs and genuine enjoyment they have for the field.  Chris is a Technology Librarian at the Sachem Public Library and Bob  is the Information Technology Specialist at the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library.  This month we had Ellen Druda from Half Hollow Hills Community Library!  She discussed her experiences in her career along with her project with E-nable.

The links for this episode are:

www.sachemlibrary.org

www.emmaclark.org

hhhlibrary.org

www.enablingthefuture.org