Common Stacks
Heather Teysko
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The podcast that breaks down LibraryLand industry news, innovation, and how libraries are breaking down "this is how we always have done it" to better serve their communities.
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Jan 30, 2023
Episode 026: Peter McCracken from ShipIndex.org
Peter McCracken has been an electronic resources librarian at Cornell University since 2016. Prior to joining Cornell, Peter worked as a reference librarian at East Carolina University and the University of Washington. In 2000, he co-founded Serials Solutions, which was acquired by ProQuest in 2004. In 2009, he co-founded ShipIndex.org, which helps people do research on vessels.
Learn more at CommonStacks.com.
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Jan 20, 2023
Episode 025: Steven Rosato of OverDrive
Steven Rosato is the Manager of the OverDrive Professional business unit, the division of OverDrive that specializes in serving HigherEd Academic institutions. He joined us to discuss the new CHOICE report, and the landscape of eBooks in academic libraries.
85% of academic libraries include ebook and digital audiobooks in their collections, with non-curriculum-based ebooks one of the fastest growing segments
Get the show notes with the link to the full report at
https://librarylever.com/common-stacks-episode-025-steven-rosato-and-overdrive/
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Dec 14, 2022
Episode 024: David Brace of PrivCo
PrivCo is a leading source of information for private companies. David Brace, their Head of Sales, discusses the use cases, and what makes PrivCo different. You can learn more about the PrivCo offering for Library Lever members at LibraryLever.com/PrivcoOffer
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Nov 29, 2022
Episode 023: John Seguin of Third Iron
[[:encoded, "John Seguin is the President, Co-Founder, and Chief Librarian of Third Iron, a library technology company. In this episode he walks us through a masterclass on the issues around open access models, and the solutions that Third Iron is building."]]
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Nov 14, 2022
Episode 022: Dr Sarah Clark on Kind Leadership
[[:encoded, "Dr. Sarah Clark is Dean and University Librarian at LaSalle University, and founder of the Kind Leadership Guild and the Kind Leadership Challenge Podcast. Listen to it at KindLeadershipChallenge.com \nAnd learn more about Library Lever at LibraryLever.com, or hop into our community at community.librarylever.com"]]
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Oct 31, 2022
Episode 021: Frank Pennetti on the Library as Business Incub
[[:encoded, "Frank Pennett is a Startup Business Attorney at Broward County Library in Florida, and chats about the library's coworking business incubator space. \nShow notes on our website at commonstacks.com."]]
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Oct 17, 2022
Episode 020: The Library Lever Pledge
[[:encoded, "This is important: The way libraries make purchases is broken, added fees make things more expensive than ever, and we're trying to fix it. But we need libraries to stand up with us. That's what the Library Lever Pledge is all about (it's free, and not legally binding!). Learn more in this episode."]]
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Sep 30, 2022
Episode 019: Why Library Lever?
[[:encoded, "In this short episode Heather Teysko and Heather Dray chat about what makes what we're building at Library Lever different than the traditional consortial model, and how libraries can be a part of it, and benefit from it. \nCheck us out at LibraryLever.com to learn more"]]
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Sep 17, 2022
Episode 018: Jami Yazdani on Agile for Libraries
[[:encoded, "Jami is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 16 years of experience managing a portfolio of innovative projects and planning initiatives. We talk about how libraries can implement the Agile framework in their own projects and management."]]
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Sep 2, 2022
Episode 017: Cordelia Anderson on Library Marketing
[[:encoded, "Cordelia Anderson is the author of the new book, Library Marketing and Communications: Strategies to Increase Relevance and Results, from ALA Editions.\nShe is a seasoned marketing and communications executive with 20+ years of experience. She is based in Charlotte, NC but has clients around the US and is nationally recognized for her innovative, strategic and results-driven marketing and communications programs. Clients have included public and academic libraries, library associations, local government agencies and nonprofits.\nLearn more about her at https://cordeliaandersonapr.com/\n\nLearn more about Library Lever at LibraryLever.com and join our community at https://community.LibraryLever.com. Leave us a voicemail at LibraryLever.com/voicemail."]]
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Aug 22, 2022
Episode 016: Jayanti Addleman on Library Advocacy
[[:encoded, "Jayanti Addleman is the Director of Library Services at Hayward Public Library. Addleman is widely considered a passionate advocate for literacy, inclusion of underserved and marginalized communities, and helping people reach their potential. She has been recognized for professional achievement, including selection in 2015 as California Library Association’s Outstanding Librarian in Support of Literacy and as one of Monterey County’s Outstanding Women.\n\nFollow her on Twitter @Addlemom. \nAnd join our community at https://community.LibraryLever.com to continue the discussion, network, and learn new things!"]]
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Aug 5, 2022
Episode 015: David Adimora on marketing and outreach
[[:encoded, "David Adimora is a business executive for library vendors, and we talked about marketing and outreach for libraries - how libraries can utilize tools available to them, and create more awareness for resources and other events. \nJoin our community to keep the conversation going: https://community.LibraryLever.com. \nMusic Credits:\n\"Cheery Monday\" \"Aerosol of my Love\" and \"Thinking Music\" all by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"]]
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Jul 22, 2022
Episode 014: Michael Blackwell of ReadersFirst
[[:encoded, "In this episode Michael Blackwell, Director of the St. Mary's County Library in Leonardtown, Maryland and a long time advocate for eresources nationally through his work with ReadersFirst. \nCheck out readersfirst.org for all the position papers and resources.\nJoin the Library Lever community to discuss this episode, and ebook lending! https://community.LibraryLever.com.\n--Music Credits--\n\"Royal Coupling\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\n\"Cheery Monday\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\n\"Thinking Music\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nAll three Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"]]
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Jul 8, 2022
Episode 013: ALA Recap
[[:encoded, "Heather, Heather, and Rob break down the ALA experience. It was our first time exhibiting, and we had a blast connecting with friends and colleagues we've known for decades.\nJoin our community and share *your* ALA takeaways. https://community.librarylever.com."]]
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Jun 24, 2022
Episode 012: Jeff Goins
[[:encoded, "Jeff Goins is a bestselling author of five books, including The Art of Work, and Real Artists Don't Starve. Check out his award winning blog at goinswriter.com. This was his talk on dealing with change at the Library Lever launch.\nAnd remember that we'd love to welcome you into our free community to connect with colleagues and new friends at https://community.LibraryLever.com. Library Lever is a new kind of mission-based buying club dedicated to building sustainable and equitable collections. We can't wait to meet you in our community. \nLike the show? Leave us a voicemail with feedback, or show requests at https://librarylever.com/voicemail/ and we will feature some on the next show. \nThanks for listening!"]]
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Jun 10, 2022
Episode 011: Josh Nicholson at Scite.ai
[[:encoded, "Josh Nicholson is the CEO at Scite.ai, which helps researchers see not just what papers have received citations, but how those papers are cited. It's an incredibly powerful tool, and Josh is a wonderful founder to speak with. Learn more about Scite - a Library Lever vendor partner - at Scite.ai.\n.\nLearn more about us at LibraryLever.com and hop into our community to learn more about the community at https://community.librarylever.com"]]
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May 27, 2022
Episode 010: Emily Drabinski on her plans for ALA
[[:encoded, "This is episode 10, and the whole gang came out to chat with Emily Drabinski, who recently won the election for ALA President starting in 2023. She chatted informally about some of her favorite librarians in fiction, what she'd do with $5 million to build a library from scratch, and how we can all work together and collaborate to make our common spaces work for us. \n...\nLearn more about this episode, and Emily at LibraryLever.com. \n...\nMusic Credits:\n\"Cheery Monday\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\n\"Thinking Music\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\n\"Wholesome\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"]]
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May 13, 2022
Episode 009: Ben Ide and Building innovation communities
[[:encoded, "Ben Ide is the Head, Resource & Metadata Services at the University of Hartford. He's been working to build up a community around Bibliovation, and is passionate about working with publishers and vendors in order to create the products that libraries want to purchase. \n\nLearn more about Ben at LibraryLever.com and join our own Library Lever community at https://community.librarylever.com. And as usual, if you like this show, please leave a rating where you're listening. Thanks!"]]
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Apr 28, 2022
Episode 008: Henry Bankhead and Community Publishing
[[:encoded, "Henry Bankhead is the City Librarian at San Rafael, and he has a passion for community publishing. \nHop into our community at community.librarylever.com to continue the discussion!\nAnd leave us a voicemail at librarylever.com/voicemail with show ideas, feedback, and shoutouts. \nThanks for listening!"]]
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Apr 14, 2022
Episode 007: Happy National Librarian Day!
[[:encoded, "It's National Librarian Day, and we are thrilled to bring you some interviews and stories from librarians who have influenced us. Hear what led them to become librarians, funny and rewarding stories, and advice for up and coming librarians. \nRemember, we have a voicemail widget, so you can leave us a voicemail with your own shoutouts to librarians, or sharing your library love story. Just go to https://www.librarylever.com/voicemail to leave us a message from your computer or browser. \n\nHappy National Librarian Day!"]]
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Mar 29, 2022
Episode 006: Tim Coates, and the Freckle Report
[[:encoded, "Tim Coates is an author, and has been working in libraries and publishing for over 40 years, including as the Managing Director of Waterstone's in the UK, and WH Smith in Europe. \nBuy the Freckle Report here:\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Freckle-Report-2021-Digital-libraries/dp/1843810646"]]
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Mar 8, 2022
Episode 005: Wild Data and Coherent Digital
[[:encoded, "In this episode Heather and Rob discuss the idea of taming wild data with Eileen Lawrence of Coherent Digital. \nLearn more at https://coherentdigital.net/\n\nGo to CommonStacks.com to join our social hub, and connect with others who are engaging in the kids of conversations that move libraries forward."]]
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Feb 16, 2022
Episode 004: CloudsourceOA
[[:encoded, "In this episode Heather chats all things open access with Carolyn Morris and Rick Branham fro Cloudsource OA, a new product from SirsiDynix. \nLearn more at https://www.cloudsourceoa.com/. \nGo to CommonStacks.com to join our social hub, and connect with others who are engaging in the kids of conversations that move libraries forward."]]
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Feb 7, 2022
Common Stacks Episode 3: What's a consortium, anyway?
[[:encoded, "In this episode, Heather and Rob discuss the work consortia do, why vendors want to work with them, why libraries want to be part of them, and some \"good old days\" stories from the trenches. \nLearn more about this show, and join in the conversation at CommonStacks.com where you'll see links to our Slack channel where we have the conversations that move libraries forward."]]
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Jan 10, 2022
Episode 002: Let's talk about money
[[:encoded, "Why do things cost what they do? What are libraries actually paying for? We dig in, in this second episode, which is a #vaguebuffet of all things related to pricing."]]
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Dec 20, 2021
Episode 001: Intro and Clarivate buys ProQuest
[[:encoded, "In this episode we introduce the podcast, break down the Proquest acquisition by Clarivate, and talk about the differences between a non-profit and profit when it comes to resources."]]
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