C&RL News “Job of a Lifetime” column editor Erin Dorney talks with Brian Mathews about his work as User Experience Librarian at Georgia Tech. Mathews is now assistant university librarian for outreach and academic services at the University of California -Santa Barbara.  Read more about Mathews in the June 2009 issue of C&RL News.
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ACRL Content Strategist Kathryn Deiss talks with Martina Malvasi, Cathy Rudowsky, and Jesus Valenica of Slippery Rock University about the causes of, and treatments for, library anxiety. Malvasi, Rudowsky, and Valencia are the authors of the new ACRL publication Library Rx: Measuring and Treating Library Anxiety.
Time:14:43
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Robin Chase, cofounder of ZipCar and current CEO of GoLoco, spoke with ACRL 2009 Green Committee member Kate Zoellner and C&RL News editor-in-chief David Free following her invited presentation at the ACRL 14th National Conference in Seattle.
Time: 20:26
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In this podcast, ACRL 14th National Conference Virtual Conference Committee Co-Chair Scott Walter talks with Craig Gibson about the contributed paper “Playing on ‘Practice Fields’: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries.” Gibson presents his paper in Seattle from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13.
Time: 12:35
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ACRL Content Strategist Kathryn Deiss talks with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kelly Janousek of California State University-Long Beach, 2009 candidates for ACRL Vice President/ President-Elect. Make sure to vote in the upcoming ALA/ ACRL elections.
Time: 13:42
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In this podcast, ACRL 14th National Conference panelists Mollie Freier and Ann Campion Riley talk with Virtual Conference Committee Co-Chair Scott Walter about “Gender, Generation, and Toxicity: The Implications for Academic Librarians of Gender and Generational Attitudes Towards Competition and Workplace Behavior.” Freier and Riley will be joined by Terrence Bennett in Seattle for [...]

 

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In this podcast, ACRL 14th National Conference panelists Steven J. Bell and John Shank talk with Virtual Conference Committee Co-Chair Scott Walter about career planning and mentoring. Bell and Shank will be joined in Seattle by Brian Mathews and Lauren Pressley for their panel session “Mapping Your Path to the Mountaintop: Planning Where You Want [...]

 

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Many academic libraries are experimenting with Facebook as a tool for student outreach and community. Harry Glazer, communications director at the Rutgers University Libraries, discusses his experiences in Facebook with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free. Glazer’s article “Clever outreach or costly diversion?” appears in the January 2009 issue of C&RL News.
Time: 11:46

 

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Over the next week, we will be performing some minor updates to the podcasts posted on the ACRL Insider blog. If you subscribe to either the podcast or main ACRL Insider RSS feeds, you may notice some repeat podcasts in your feed reader. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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In this podcast, Molly Kleinman, copyright specialist at the University of Michigan Library, discusses Creative Commons and the current state of copyright law with College & Research Libraries News editor-in-chief David Free. Kleinmans’s article “The Beauty of ‘Some Rights Reserved’” appears in the November 2008 issue of C&RL News.
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