Get to know your Reference Librarian: Mark Schumacher [Part 5 of 5]

These podcast focus on letting you get to know your Reference Librarian a little better. In part five, Reference Librarian Mark Schumacher and MLS student Daniel Windham further discuss other aspects of his work, and how his mother positively influenced his decisions to become a librarian.


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Host: Daniel Windham, MLS Student
Time: 2:12

Get to know you reference librarian: Mark Schumacher [part 4 of 5]

These podcasts focus on letting you get to know you Reference Librarian a little better. In part four Reference Librarian Mark Schumacher and MLS student Daniel Windham discuss Mark's activities as an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, participating in a fast. We also discussed his current feelings towards veterans of the Vietnam war, and his thoughts on current military operations in Afghanistan




Host: Daniel Windham, MLS student
Time: 6:30

Links:

Vietnam: A television history-Roots of a War.

Vietnam: a television history-Home Front USA

National Geographic presents: Restrepo

Institute for International Studies: Conversations With History- Thomas E Ricks
[Author of Fiasco and The Gable]

Get to know your reference librarian: Mark Schumacher [part 3 of 5]

These podcasts focus on letting you get to know your Reference Librarian a little better. In part three, Reference Librarian Mark Schumacher and MLS student Daniel Windham discuss Mark's interest in art, his like of Frisbee, and the importance of being physically fit.







Host: Daniel Windham, MLS Graduate Student.


Time: 6:00

Links:
Wassily Kandinsky
Pablo Picasso's official website
Jackson Pollock House and Study Center
Frisbee Fun

Get to know your reference librarian: Mark Schumacher [Part 2 of 5]

These podcasts focus on letting you get to know your Reference Librarian a little better. In part two, Reference Librarian Mark Schumacher and MLS Student Daniel Windham discuss rare books, Marks time growing up in France, and famous French authors.





Host: Daniel Windham, MLS Graduate Student.
Time: 5:42

Links:

Marks Library Page:
Interview with Jules Roy [In French]
Albert Camus Nobel Prize Biography

Get to know your reference librarian: Mark Schumacher

These podcasts focus on letting you get to know your Reference Librarian a little better. In part one, Reference Librarian Mark Schumacher and MLS student Daniel Windham discuss why Mark choose library science as a career, the work he does with rare books, how technology has changed his job, and what he likes best about his work.

Host: Daniel Windham, UNCG, MLS Graduate Student.

Time: 6:00 min

Trascript: pdf coming soon

Links:

• Mark Scumacher's Library Page
  
• The Amy Sacker Site

Get to know your reference librarian: Jenny Raabe

These podcasts focus on letting you get to know your Reference Librarian a little better. In this video Reference Librarian Jenny Raabe gives you information about her previous educational career, her life and Germany, and why she loves working at Walter Jackson Library.



Host: Daniel Windham, UNCG, MLS Graduate Student.
Time: 5:29
Transcript (pdf)

Links:

• Jenny Rabbe Library Page
• More about Willy Brandt
• Photos of the Berlin Wall
  

Meet Joe Williams: Head of Access Services

In this podcast I interview Joe Williams, our new Head of Access Services at UNCG Libraries, to find out a little bit more about him - where he came from, what he does outside the library, why he wanted this position, and where he thinks libraries might be headed.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, and Joe Williams

Time: 5:39 |Size: 5.17 MB | Download .mp3 | Transcript Coming Soon

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

Link: Access Services Dept

Interview: Steven Bell, keynote speaker at Library Entrepreneurial Conference

In this podcast Steven Bell discusses being a library entrepreneur and what it means to the profession. Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Temple University, was the keynote speaker at the Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: an Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians held June 4, 2009. This interview is based on his lecture "Librarian Entrepreneurs: Demystifying A Professional Oxymoron."

Hosts: Irma Minerva and Steven Bell and Hannah Winkler

Time: 16:03 |Size: 15.05 MB | Download .mp3 | No transcript available

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

Links:

• Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: an Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians
• Photos of the conference on Flickr
  
• The Kept-Up Librarian
  
• Steven Bell website
  
• ACRL Blog
  
• Designing Better Libraries