Show Notes
Steve chats with Dr. Steve Albrecht, author of The Library Leader’s Guide to Human Resources: Keeping It Real, Legal, and Ethical, about the importance of library leaders learning about human resources, handling performance reviews, onboarding, and why civility is the key to a healthy and effective workplace culture. Read the transcript! The human resources (HR) … Continue reading 297: The Library Leader’s Guide to Human Resources by Steve Albrecht
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In this special episode, Steve chats with some of the team behind the PBS series “Roadtrip Nation: Beyond Books,” director Leah Bleich, producer Lori Benitez, and featured student Maryan Liban. They talk about how the documentary came together, planning the three-week RV journey from Los Angeles to Chicago, the casting process, finding the right library … Continue reading 324: Roadtrip Nation: Beyond Books
Steve chats with Gene Ambaum, creator and writer of the webcomic Library Comic, about his new Library Game on Kickstarter, the origins and mechanics of the game, collaborating with his Library Comic artist Willow Payne to create the cards, and how real-life library experiences (including a memorably nude patron!) find their way into his work. … Continue reading 323: Library Game Kickstarter with Gene Ambaum
Steve chats with Bobbi L. Newman and Sam Helmick about their recent Inside Higher Ed article, “The Case for a Professional Foundation in Librarianship,” about their spirited defense of the MLS degree, the shared ethical foundation that library school instills in its students, the importance of growing diversity through widening access rather than lowering standards, … Continue reading 322: The Case for a Professional Foundation in Librarianship, with Bobbi L. Newman and Sam Helmick
Steve chats with Erin Jones, editor of the new 11th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual from the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom, about her winding path from theater studies into librarianship, how she reshaped this edition to be more accessible by writing in plain language, adding personal stories, and diversifying contributor voices, … Continue reading 321: Intellectual Freedom Manual, with Erin Jones
Steve chats with Alma Katsu, author of the new book Incarnate, about her CIA background into early social media research, AI’s threat to creativity and authenticity, the story’s parallels with Picture of Dorian Gray, and the diversity of voices in the current golden age of the horror genre. Then over on the Circ Desk, NoveList … Continue reading 320: Incarnate by Alma Katsu – Summer Reading Spectacular 2026