The Library Pros

The podcast is working from home and Chris was able to speak with Maria Dismondy, children’s book author and founder of Cardinal Rule Press. Maria started her career as a teacher, and started writing children’s picture books that focus on a child’s self esteem, something she was not seeing in picture books. This concept became a passion and she turned that passion into a publishing house. Learn how Maria started, her philosophies on not just publishing but also on marketing and the use of social media, because much of what she does with Cardinal Rule Press translates nicely to Libraryland. Follow Cardinal Rule Press on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Chris and Bob are working remotely during the COVID-19 Pandemic and were fortunate enough to speak to Scott Jarzombek, Executive Director of the Albany Public Library about his plan to re-open his large multi-branch library as the Corona Virus statistics continue to decline. Scott penned an article in the NYLA Voice about reopening. He also has shared his plans for the phases or re-opening on Albany Public Library’s website. If you are in the process of re-opening, have reopened or are still talking about it, the Albany plan is a detailed framework for how libraries can approach re-opening their facilities!! Follow Scott on Twitter and also Albany Public Library on Twitter for more exciting ideas and programs!!

Chris and Bob visited the place where Chris got his start in Libraryland, The Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, New York. The boys spoke with Assistant Director Ann Hofbauer, Digital Literacy Coordinator Alison Mirabella, Children’s STEAM Specialist, Danielle Bliss and Head of Technical Services, Roseann Mammina. They have a very deep and diverse lending library called “Equipment and Gadgets”. They talk about the selection of items for the collection, the processing of these non traditional items, the flow of circulating them, policy and “The Hair Story”. So join the guys and learn about this amazing collection. As a side note, this podcast was recorded before COVID-19.

We were very happy to have our neighbors to the north of the Sachem Library District, Middle Country Public Library’s podcasters Sal DeVincenzo, Sarah Fade and Nicole Rambo drop by to talk podcasting in libraries. Sal brings his own style of podcasting to libraryland and with Sarah and Nicole co-hosting, they produce a light hearted show that talks about the latest and greatest at the Middle Country Public Library.

On a nice quiet Saturday at The Sachem Public Library, Nadine Spano and Debbie Keehner from the Oceanside New York Library journeyed from the far south west corner of Nassau County to Holbrook to talk about their innovative book club. Nadine and Debbie do a video book club with the help of Go To Meeting. This episode was recorded before the Covid-19 Pandemic that the nation is now in the grips of, and how timely is it that they do their book club this way? These two innovators talk about why they started an online book club, how they started and evolved, why they chose Go To Meeting and have a million laughs along the way.

Oceanside Library’s Webpage

Oceanside Library’s book club webpage

Oceanside Library’s Facebook page

Oceanside Library’s All About Books Facebook page

If you listened to our first SPECIAL EPISODE, you heard librarians reacting to the effects of the global Pandemic of Novel Corona (Covid-19) on the library world. We circle back to what has happened, what we have learned, what we are still attempting to figure out and how we get our libraries back on their feet. We even brainstorm using outdoor libraries! So join Chris and Bob, along with Nick Tanzi from South Huntington Library, James Hutter from Port Washington Library, Jessikah Chautin from Syosset Library, Carol Ann Tack from Merrick Library, Mike Buono from Brentwood (NY) Library, Chris Kretz from Stony Brook University, Sally Stieglitz from LILRC and Rob Thomson from ALIA New South Wales!!!

William Salas, Librarian at The Smithtown Library, came to The Booth at Sachem to chat with the guys about the Patent and Trademark Resource Center. Will manages the Center and has a wealth of knowledge about patent and trademark searching. His passion for the subject really comes through and I think we all can agree that is expertise is without parallel.

If you have any questions about patent or trademark, anyone can reach out to Will as the Patent and Trademark Resource Center is a federally funded center. You can contact him at [email protected] or give him a call at 631-360-2480 extension 128.

This is a special episode in light of the the Corona Virus crisis, we assembled a collection of librarians to talk about the crisis and how our libraries and organizations have responded, are functioning and how we bring the building back online. This episode voices all of our thoughts, fears and hopes for our “new normal”.

In this episode, we talk with Connie Vassilopoulos. At the time of the recording she was a Library Technician, but has since transitioned to a librarian. She was a Library Tech at Rosebank College. We talked about the life of a Library Tech in a school setting, and all the things she has accomplished there. She also talks about her experiences working along side Rob Thomson, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) State Manager for New South Wales and his nationally famous Unconferences. We covered so much ground!

Connie’s Twitter

In this 3rd and final installment of episode 71, Chris sat down with “Awesome Sally” Sally Stieglitz and Tim Spindler from the Long Island Library Resources Council and Jill Hurst Wahl of Syracuse University and the podcast T is for Training. We talk about NYLA, the conference, what LILRC does and all kinds of issues facing Libraryland. Jill also brings up an interesting discussion based upon our episodes with Librarians of Color