Turbitt & Duck: The Library Podcast

Kat Moody is a reformed museum professional who works in public libraries and has been adventuring around the GLAMR sector since the nineties. In the United Kingdom, Kat worked in the libraries and / or archives of various military museums and in New Zealand, after various adventures, is now based with Christchurch City Libraries.

In this episode we discussed:

* Tūranga – Christchurch Central Library.* Caring for the communities following the Canterbury earthquakes: How the GLAM sector responded. * FingerTip Library at Christchurch City Libraries.* National Digital Forum.* Canterbury 100.* Reflections on the commemoration of World War One conference.* #KnitWithTurbittNDuck* “Empty” – by Kat Moody for Library Whisperers.* Follow Kat’s crochet porgs on Instagram – @porgsofrangiora* Wartime Knitting Revived.* “A Bit of a Stink” – Kat Moody for Christchurch City Libraries.

Kat’s suggestion for our listeners:

Do: something you enjoy at work, or go outside for a nice walk at lunch time, take some time to think or reflect, or have a play on Trove or Papers Past and find a random story about library toilets!

This episode is sponsored by PINEAPPLE GLAM.

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Turbitt & Duck travelled to Coffs Harbour in November to record live interviews with delegates and keynotes at SWITCH 2018. SWITCH is the NSW Public Libraries Association’s annual conference with delegates from all over NSW in attendance. There’s a focus on building partnerships with local councils, advocacy, library new builds and renovations and library funding. Take a look at #SWITCH2018 on Twitter to see the wide ranging issues and work being done in NSW public libraries.

We spoke to Councillor Dallas Tout from the NSWPLA Executive Committee, Paula Kelly Paull from Hobsons Bay City Council, Gavin Carnegie from Local Government Professionals Australia NSW, Theresa Jude from Lachlan Shire Library Services and Robert Knight, Executive Director, Riverina Regional Library.

In this episode we discussed:

* NSWPLA and what they do.* Condobolin Library renovation.* The Geography of Yes – Leonee Ariel Derr* Renew Our Libraries – if you live in NSW, please take the time to contact your local MP and ask them for more funding for NSW public libraries!

And here’s homework from Gavin Carnegie!

Gavin suggests saying yes to everything is not the answer to creating opportunities. It’s about being selective and choosing projects, activities, roles that pique your existing interests. @UrzilaCarlson’s TED talk is his inspiration for this. https://t.co/VBAmfmNYG2 #SWITCH2018— Turbitt & Duck 🐟🦆 (@TurbittNDuck) November 29, 2018

This episode is sponsored by PINEAPPLE GLAM.

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

Sally & Amy

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Sabine Weber-Beard works for the Far North District Libraries as the Systems Librarian for all six branches and also manages the smallest in Kaeo. She is active in the New Zealand library community, as the Northland Ambassador for the National Digital Forum, a member of the LIANZA Hikuwai committee and she is also on the wider working group to get the WLIC2020 to Auckland.

Sabine’s passion for her work, asking why and finding solutions will leave you feeling energised and excited about libraries!

In this episode we discuss:

* LIANZA Hikuwai committee

* National Digital Forum

* Bine’s award for National Outstanding Service to Public Libraries Award 

* IFLA World Library & Information Congress 2020 in , Auckland 2020

* Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s IFLA video

* Sabine’s Instagram account!

Bine’s suggestions for our listeners:

* Read – something for pleasure.

* Do – Smile and ask. If you want to find out something, ask. If you don’t ask, you won’t find out.

* Think – positive.

* Do – Roll with it!

This episode is sponsored by PINEAPPLE GLAM.

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

Sally & Amy

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Maeva Masterson is the Manager Library Sector Services at Northern Territory Library. Maeva began her career in the Australian Army before making the jump to library services. With more than 15 years’ experience in working in both remote locations and internationally, Maeva is a results-focused library services professional providing strategic advice enabling Northern Territory Libraries to become sustainable leaders with a focus on best practice and innovation.

In this episode we discuss:

* Galiwin’ku in East Arnhem Land

* Innovative pilot in Galiwin’ku Community Library: classifying library collections according to local cultural concepts

* Galiwin’ku library closes book on the Dewey Decimal System to prioritise Yolngu culture

* Northern Territory public libraries

Homework from Maeva:

* Visit your local library or workplace and think about the following questions:

* What does your library reflect?

* What world view is expressed?

* Does your library only reflect the standard Australian (or New Zealand or American) world view or does it have the capacity to reflect back to marginalised members of the community?

* Does the space recognise that their world views and knowledge are just as important?

This episode is sponsored by PINEAPPLE GLAM.

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

Sally & Amy

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Edward Luca is a library practitioner and researcher. He spends most of his time as Manager, Academic Services at the University of Sydney Library, but also dabbles in teaching, research, and anything shiny that appear in front of him. Edward describes research as his side hustle and he is actively involved in research on user experience, scholarly communication practices, embedded librarianship and systematic review processes.

Edward speaks eloquently about why librarian-researcher collaborations are crucial for knowledge sharing and the importance of co-authorship on academic papers in demonstrating library impact in research.

In this episode we discuss:

* Library Signage By Design: A Design-Thinking Approach to Library User Experience

* Complete list of Edward’s research and writing.

Recommendations from Edward:

* Kate Bush – Hounds of Love, Side 2. Don’t forget candles and/or bath!

* Think about your job. Think about one particular problem or particular thing that irks you and chat to your clients about it. What do they think? Is it a problem for them? What would make things better?

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

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Pamela McGowan is the Team Manager of Libraries at Townsville City Council. After being reminded about the magic of libraries when teaching in a remote Indigenous school in the Northern Territory, she completed a Graduate Diploma of Teacher Librarianship and a Masters of Information and Knowledge Management externally while working as an ICT classroom coach.

As someone who’s always keen to try different things, Pamela’s experience in libraries includes coordinating a literature festival, creating ePublishing workshops, conducting outreach events to businesses and leading teams through different changes. In all of these roles, meeting community needs and encouraging learning have been a strong focus.

Pamela was selected to be part of INELi Oceania Cohort 2 as an innovator; which has been a life changing experience due to the networks that have been formed within the Pacific region and the potential for the library community to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In her spare time, Pamela enjoys following American sports (especially the Seattle Seahawks), discovering new places and reading thousands of board books with her son.

Side note: Pamela’s son has had 11393 books read to him and counting! OMG!

In this episode we discuss:

* Yuendumu

* INELI-Oceania program

* Australian government page about SDGs

* ALIA SDG toolkit

* National Archives of Fiji

* Opeta Alefalo keynote from #APLIC18

* CityLibraries Townsville FB page

* CityLibraries Townsville website 

* Townsville City Council Orlando Bloom post (the comments are also amazing)

* Twitter thread from Pamela!

Recommendations from Pamela:

Visit the Turbitt & Duck Redbubble store to buy our merchandise!

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

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Clare Thorpe (yes she’s back and convinced Turbitt & Duck to be the interviewees instead of interviewers!) interviews Sally & Amy about why library people need to focus on building physical, professional, social and emotional resilience. The discussion also includes why Amy is always learning, how Sally chooses projects and where they both find their professional development inspiration.

In this episode we discuss:

* Michael Stephen’s keynote at APLIC

* How one conversation helped me understand 30 years of learning by Amy Walduck

* Podcasts: Clear & Vivid with Alan Alda, Potential Psychology with Ellen Jackson, Don’t Keep Your Day Job with Cathy Heller.

* Brain.fm

Recommendation from Sally:

Not perfect, just done – letting go of perfectionism.

Recommendation from Amy:

Visit the Turbitt & Duck Redbubble store to buy our merchandise!

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes or share the podcast with a friend! And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

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Alissa McCulloch, perhaps better known by her twitter handle @lissertations, is the most passionate and enthusiastic cataloguer you’ve ever met. She’s a new librarian with big dreams about the future of library metadata, and how it might be used to help people feel welcomed, supported and empowered by libraries. Alissa works to decolonise the GLAM sector and support the labour of library workers in times of austerity. Outside of libraries, Alissa can be found creating zines, cataloguing beer cans, and taking trams to nowhere. She blogs at lissertations.net.

In this episode we discuss:

Cataloguing the Universe (ofc)

Cataloguing and classifying board and tabletop games / Catalogue and Index

MARC Must Die / Roy Tennant, 2002

Violet Fox’s Cataloging Lab

Another Word for ‘Illegal Alien’ at the Library of Congress: Contentious / NY Times, 2016

The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized / Angela Galvan, VALA2018

Never neutral: critical librarianship and technology / Meredith Farkas

Passion of a Young Cataloger / Junli Diao

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves / Fobazi Ettarh

Zine Union Catalog

* Sticky Institute Melbourne

Recommendations from Alissa:

* Check out Aussie GLAM bloggers on @AusGLAMBlogs, join the conversation on Twitter or start your own blog.

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We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes (this helps other people find our podcast too). And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

Sally & Amy

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Sarah Howard is currently the Acting Branch Library Manager of the Gardens Point Campus at Queensland University Technology, but in her substantive role is a QUT Liaison Librarian for the Schools of Nursing and Optometry & Vision Science. With over ten years experience in Academic Libraries, and a strong interest in teaching with mobile technologies, Sarah has worked on a variety of projects exploring the use of virtual and augmented reality.

In this episode we discuss:

* Tilt Brush

* MineSim

* Virtual reality content for higher education curriculum. In VALA, 13-15 February, 2018, Melbourne, Australia.

* IKEA Augmented Reality App

* Google Cardboard

* WEARVR

* Lifeprint

* Wallame

* Virtual Bacon and Augmented Eggs. Bring Virtual and Augmented Reality to Your Library – APLIC 2018 workshop

* VirtualSpeech

* #virtualreality

* Aurasma (now HP Reveal)

Recommendations from Sarah:

* Put on a headset and give it a go!

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We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes (this helps other people find our podcast too). And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fish Pond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

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Philip Minchin has worked in publishing, arts production, NGO governance and campaigning, and now works in library IT in Melbourne. In addition to fulltime work in the library sector, he presents, trains, and consults to libraries and game companies on libraries, communities, games, interactivity, systems and UI design. He also volunteers for International Games Week (November 4-10 in 2018), and recently ran a free showcase series of games-based PD for GLAM folks. You can read more and contact him at philipminchin.com.

In this episode we discuss:

* Journey – the game.

* Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator

* In praise of tabletop games: Part 1

* Dungeons & Dragons

* Magic The Gathering

* Werewolf

* Fiasco

* Sign – FREE!

Recommendations from Philip:

* Play: how it shapes the brain, opens the imagination and invigorates the soul – Stuart Brown with Christopher Vaughan

* People, Systems, and the Game of Monopoly – Allan G Johnson

* Homo  ludens: a study of the play-element in culture – J. Huizinga

* Games and play – Starting Points

Visit the Turbitt & Duck Redbubble store to buy our merchandise!

We love comments and reviews so let us know what you thought of this episode by leaving a review and rating on iTunes (this helps other people find our podcast too). And make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and you can join our Facebook group – The Fishpond! Join us to chat and support each other in our GLAM work.

Sally & Amy

Music by Richard Frohlich and sound by Inspector J