Episodes

In this episode, Chris and Bob take a field trip to the Levittown Public Library and visit their Innovation Station! Chris and Bob spoke to Maryann Ferro, Levittown’s Assistant Director, Marie Andreski, Department Head of the Media /Innovation Station, Lisa Jean Santer, a Library Aide who works in the Innovation Station and Benjie Pancho, from Levittown’s IT Department. We sit and laugh and talk about what it took to finance, build and run the first maker space on Long Island! Please join us to ...

In this episode, Melanie Cardone-Leathers discusses her approach to working with local history archiving with technology along with developing iPad/iPhone training classes with Chris! She also talks about how she and Chris researched the photos and documents that were connected to the Canton Free Library. (see Episode 2 if you are not familiar). It is fun laughing with an old friend and colleague! We had a technical problem with this recording. The first segment is fine, the second and third se...

In this episode, Nick Tanzi, the Head of Digital Services at the Mastics, Moriches,Shirley Community Library and author of the book Making the Most of Digital Collections Through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide. Nick discusses the creation of the department that he heads and how he approaches training both staff and patrons on various services the library provides. Mastic Moriches Shirley Community Library: https://www.communitylibrary.org/ Nick’s Book can be found at A...

In this episode, Chris is flying solo and taking the podcast on the road. This episode is from beautiful Canton, New York at the Canton Free Library. Chris talks to the library’s Director, Emily Owen and Christa Briggs, YA Services Specialist. Hear about their “Living Library” local history event that took place on Saturday April 16th and how one of the Library Pros had a previously unknown link to their library’s history!! Thank you to Canton for hosting the event and inviting us to spend time ...

Welcome to our first Podcast! The Library Pros are Chris and Bob. two library professionals who love to talk innovative library technology and how it is being put to use every day. They hope that everyone will subscribe and enjoy not just the talk, but the laughs and genuine enjoyment they have for the field. Chris is a Technology Librarian at the Sachem Public Library and Bob is the Information Technology Specialist at the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library. This month we had Ellen Druda from Half...