Justin Hoenke is a human being who has worked in public libraries all over the United States and is currently the Executive Director of the Benson Memorial Library in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Before that, he was Coordinator of Tween/Teen Services at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee where Justin created The 2nd Floor, a 14,000 square foot space for ages 0-18 that brought together learning, fun, creating, and public events. Justin is a member of the 2010 American Library Association Emerging Leaders class and was named a Mover and Shaker in 2013 by the publication Library Journal. His professional interests include public libraries as community centres, library management, video games, and creative spaces. Follow Justin on Twitter at @justinlibrarian and read his blog at www.justinthelibrarian.com.

In this episode we discuss:

* A New Career In A New Town blog series by Justin Hoenke

* Pinkerton (album) by Weezer (band), 1996

* Local woman tracks down biological family, The Titusville Herald

* Raina Telgemeier

* Justin’s belltower!

* Pennsylvania Library Association

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Fast Internet Is Chattanooga’s New Locomotive

Recommendations from Justin:

* Don’t be afraid of using open source technology in your library e.g. Koha, Linux

* Take the time to go outside for a walk during your work day, observe and enjoy the world!

* Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (album) by Arctic Monkeys (band), 2018

Contact Justin on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Nathan ‘Mudyi’ Sentance works on First Nations programming at the Australian Museum in Sydney and writes at Archival Decolonist. We talked to Nathan about why we must be critical when visiting cultural institutions, putting complexity into collections and why cultural institutions are not neutral.

In this episode we discuss:

* Gadi Exhibition at the Australian Museum

* Weave: Festival of Aboriginal and Pacific Cultures

* The Red Chief

My ancestors are in our memory institutions, but their voices are missing

* Your neutral is not our neutral

Garrigarang: Sea Country

* Indigenous X

* AIATSIS Interactive Map of Indigenous Australia

* Four Thousand Fish by Emily McDaniel

Contact Nathan on Twitter @SaywhatNathan.

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Sally & Amy

Music by Richard Frohlich and sound by Inspector J

From her blogger beginnings as Persnickety Snark, Adele Walsh has been an advocate and champion for youth literature, and its intended teen audience. As the Program Coordinator for the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, Adele creates, designs, implements, and evaluates learning and literacy programs built around and for young people. Under her leadership, initiatives including the Reading Matters conference, Story Camp, and the Inky Awards have flourished to become established, highly regarded literary institutions. Outside of her day-to-day role, Adele is an in-demand moderator, presenter, and teacher, an ongoing outspoken advocate for youth readers, and founding co-host of the literary podcast, Unladylike.

In this episode we discuss:

* March For Our Lives

* NAPLAN

* Sydney Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival

* John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers administered by Express Media

* Love & Basketball movie

* Black Hands podcast

Say hi to Adele on Twitter at @snarkywench!

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Sally & Amy

Music by Richard Frohlich and sounds by GameAudio

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