Infopeople Podcasts

In the spirit of the season, and giving credit to Francis Pharcellus and the New York Sun, George and Joan offer this holiday podcast and answer the question, "Is there a future for libraries?" with a resounding "YES!"

Happy holidays from Infopeople!

This podcast idea came about as a result of consulting work George and Joan recently did in Northern California. The library system they were working with was at risk of closure due to county budget issues. As they worked, George and Joan started to ponder what services MUST remain for a library to still be a library. What do you think?

In this podcast, Infopeople's resident book maven, Michael Cart, reports on his recent interview with Patrick Ness, author of the brilliant trilogy “Chaos Walking.”

In this latest edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan riff on a topic that came to George's mind after reading an article in the New Yorker entitled The Next Level, by James Surowiecki (October 18, 2010).

In his latest Infopeople podcast, our resident book guy Michael Cart talks about the life and writings of the late Newberry Award-winning author Sid Fleischman.

In this special extended edition of George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud, we share George and Joan's closing talk at this year's Eureka! Leadership Institute.

George and Joan are involved in lots of library projects that require evaluations of one sort or another. And in their opinion, some are better than others. What are the best ways to measure, among other things, the community impact of a library project?

Literature for young adults is very hot now, but that wasn't always the case. In this podcast, Michael Cart looks at the past and present of YA publishing, and along the way gives some great reading tips!

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan and their guest Paula Singer talk about the nature of library employer-employee relationships in the 21st century.