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Sally Turbitt and Amy Walduck are librarians from Australia determined to highlight some of the best people and stories from library land and beyond. Visit http://www.turbittnduck.com for more info on our guests and things we chat about during each episode!
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Kat Moody is a reformed museum professional who works in public libraries and has been adventuring around the GLAMR sector since the nineties. In the United Kingdom, Kat worked in the libraries and / or archives of various military museums and in New Zealand, after various adventures, is now based with Christchurch City Libraries. In … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 25: Kat Moody talks about GLAM collaboration beyond networking, honesty and why reaching out is so important."
Turbitt & Duck travelled to Coffs Harbour in November to record live interviews with delegates and keynotes at SWITCH 2018. SWITCH is the NSW Public Libraries Association’s annual conference with delegates from all over NSW in attendance. There’s a focus on building partnerships with local councils, advocacy, library new builds and renovations and library funding. … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 24: Turbitt & Duck with special guests at the 2018 NSW Public Libraries Association conference"
Sabine Weber-Beard works for the Far North District Libraries as the Systems Librarian for all six branches and also manages the smallest in Kaeo. She is active in the New Zealand library community, as the Northland Ambassador for the National Digital Forum, a member of the LIANZA Hikuwai committee and she is also on the … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 23: Sabine Weber-Beard talks keeping your library in the loop, crushing on IFLA volunteers and why you should just roll with it!"
Maeva Masterson is the Manager Library Sector Services at Northern Territory Library. Maeva began her career in the Australian Army before making the jump to library services. With more than 15 years’ experience in working in both remote locations and internationally, Maeva is a results-focused library services professional providing strategic advice enabling Northern Territory Libraries … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 22: Maeva Masterson talks about classifying library collections, culturally safe spaces and airconditioning."
Edward Luca is a library practitioner and researcher. He spends most of his time as Manager, Academic Services at the University of Sydney Library, but also dabbles in teaching, research, and anything shiny that appear in front of him. Edward describes research as his side hustle and he is actively involved in research on user … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 21: Edward Luca talks design thinking, why practitioner-researcher collaborations are important and Kate Bush"
Pamela McGowan is the Team Manager of Libraries at Townsville City Council. After being reminded about the magic of libraries when teaching in a remote Indigenous school in the Northern Territory, she completed a Graduate Diploma of Teacher Librarianship and a Masters of Information and Knowledge Management externally while working as an ICT classroom … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 20: Pamela McGowan talks about SDGs, chasing leadership opportunities and Orlando Bloom."
Clare Thorpe (yes she’s back and convinced Turbitt & Duck to be the interviewees instead of interviewers!) interviews Sally & Amy about why library people need to focus on building physical, professional, social and emotional resilience. The discussion also includes why Amy is always learning, how Sally chooses projects and where they both find their professional … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 19: Clare Thorpe interviews Sally & Amy about resilience, values, theme songs and perfectionism"
1Alissa McCulloch, perhaps better known by her twitter handle @lissertations, is the most passionate and enthusiastic cataloguer you’ve ever met. She’s a new librarian with big dreams about the future of library metadata, and how it might be used to help people feel welcomed, supported and empowered by libraries. Alissa works to decolonise the GLAM … Continue reading "Episode 18: Alissa McCulloch talks about critical cataloguing, zines and bibliographic data wizardry"
Sarah Howard is currently the Acting Branch Library Manager of the Gardens Point Campus at Queensland University Technology, but in her substantive role is a QUT Liaison Librarian for the Schools of Nursing and Optometry & Vision Science. With over ten years experience in Academic Libraries, and a strong interest in teaching with mobile technologies, … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 17: Sarah Howard talks about virtual reality, augmented reality and rollercoasters in libraries."
Philip Minchin has worked in publishing, arts production, NGO governance and campaigning, and now works in library IT in Melbourne. In addition to fulltime work in the library sector, he presents, trains, and consults to libraries and game companies on libraries, communities, games, interactivity, systems and UI design. He also volunteers for International Games Week … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 16: Philip Minchin talks about play, magical spaces and why games ignite your brain!"
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 … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 15: Justin Hoenke talks about the legacy of libraries, blogging with honesty and Soup-er Bowl parties"
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: … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 14: Nathan Sentance talks about cultural collections, looking for authentic sources and being critical"
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 … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 13: Adele Walsh talks about embracing discomfort, youth literature and being the bad girl of YA blogging"
(Looking for part 1? It’s here!) Episode 12 is a BIG episode, so big it’s in two parts! We joined The Library Pros, Chris DeCristofaro and Bob Johnson on Google Hangouts to talk about library spaces, customer service and why tech help and readers’ advisory is great publicity for your library. Here are all the … Continue reading "Podcast Episode 12 Part 2: The Library Pros and Turbitt & Duck talk library spaces, social media research and international travel"
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Lovely show! Thank you. It's a problematic oversimplification to say that resources at the library are 'free' -- they're paid through taxes. Important distinction, since publishers don't like the idea of their content being available without any payment.