Human Rights: a New Model for Librarianship

As part of the lecture series hosted by the University Libraries and the department of Library and Information Science, Kathleen de la Pena McCook, presents her lecture: "Human Rights: a New Model for Librarianship." This recording was made Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Hannah Winkler, and Kathleen de la Pena McCook

Time: 47:31 | Size: 43.5 MB | Download

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

(no transcript available)

Links: Kathleen de la Pena McCook Interview, 11:18

Blogs by McCook:

• A Librarian at the Kitchen Table
• Union Librarian
• Librarian
• Working Librarian

The NEW Interior Architecture Library

In this week's podcast, Mary Jane Conger, Head of the Cataloging Dept at UNCG, speaks at the opening of the Interior Architecture Department's new library about the year long project of cataloging and organizing the piled up books, samples and serials that comprise the collection, and some of the unique items unearthed through the process.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, and Mary Jane Conger

Time: 9:41 | Size: 8.8 MB | Download | Transcript

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links discussed in podcast:

• Interior Architecture Dept | Dr. Anna Marshall-Baker
• Jackson Library Cataloging Staff
  
• Library Catalog (choose limit by location: Interior Architecture Library)
  
• Silver Jubilee Walkway
• Architectural preservation in Japan
• A time that will not wait : restoring the visual order, Guilford County, N.C.
• An Interim North Carolina state plan for historic preservation
• Frank Lloyd Wright SteelCase
• The complete Hafele : Furniture hardware

Dr. Carr's Lecture: Museums And Libraries And The Rescue Of American Voices

This week's podcast is a recording of the lecture by Dr. David Carr called Museums And Libraries And The Rescue Of American Voices from 2/4/09. Dr. Carr is Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, and author of The Promise of Cultural Institutions, (2003) and A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries(2006). This lecture was co-sponsored by the UNCG Department of History, the UNCG Universities Libraries, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Summary of this lecture (no transcript available) Carr says that everything we know and learn as individuals is surrounded by contexts that connect our knowledge and thinking to other people, to our communities and beyond, and to our nation as a place of progress and renewal. In a democracy, museums and libraries are the cultural instruments best able to approach the complexities, passions, empathies, curiosities, and ambiguities of experience. Cultural institutions are for our common stories, for the communication of evidence and value, for observations of public memory, and for reflection on the questions that remain with us always. Libraries and museums are essential parts of American democratic practice; they are places for public critical thinking, and for the reflection that brings people together in progressive reciprocity.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Benjamin Filene (UNCG - Director of Public History), and Dr David Carr

Time: 38:07 | Size: 35 MB | Download

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links:

• Hometown by Tracy Kidder
  
• Queen's Public Library
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum

note: the sound quality is poor and varies throughout the lecture.

Dr. Kathleen de la Pena McCook interview

In this week's podcast, Dr. Kathleen de la Pena McCook, Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida and prolific blogger talks about her lecture "Human Rights: A New Model for Librarianship". Recorded February 11, 2009 as part of the University Libraries/LIS Lecture Series.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Dr. Kathleen de la Pena McCook, with interview by Hannah Winkler

Time: 11:18 | Size: 10.4 MB | Download

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Blogs by McCook:

• A Librarian at the Kitchen Table
• Union Librarian
• Librarian
• Working Librarian

Game Night @ the Library

In this week's podcast, hear all about this semester's Game Night in the Library on Jan 30, 2009.



Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, and many unnamed UNCG students, who were willing and happy to be interviewed for this podcast!

Time: 2:51 | Size: 2.6MB | Download | Transcript

Links:

• Science Fiction Fantasy Federation
• Game Night at the Library