In the latest Talking with Talis podcast Richard Wallis is in conversation with Clore Fellow and librarian from Tower Hamlets in London, Zoinul Abidin.  Zoinul is manager of one of Tower Hamlets’ four Idea Stores.

They discuss how being a Clore Fellow is helping him in his career.  We discover his passion for Idea Stores and how they can engage libraries with the community, without loosing sight of the fact that “books are core”.  Idea Stores have much to offer as examples of innovation in the approach to delivering public library services.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Wednesday 8th August, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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This Talking with Talis podcast conversation is with Michael Stead of Bolton Libraries  Michael was one of last year’s winning MLA ‘Young Librarians of the Future’, who were rewarded for their passion and commitment to the library service.

We discuss the impact of being a Young Librarian of the Future, this year’s competition, the challenges of libraries in Bolton, and Public libraries in General.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Tuesday 7th August, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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George Kerr’s early career in libraries lead him to develop Evidence Based Stock Management (EBMS), this eventually lead to the development of a software product SmartSM.  In this podcast we discuss this process of evolution for EBSM, and the state of Stock Selection and Stock Control within Public Libraries in general.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Friday 27th July, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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Success! - I have managed to sit the elusive Ian Davis, CTO here at Talis, in front of a video camera to have a conversation about the Talis Platform.

Take this seven minute not-to-be-missed opportunity to see Ian discuss the Platform, its benefits, and the motivations behind it.

Resources referenced in the conversation:

• Talis Cenote
• The Talis Platform
• Talis Platform White Paper

Technorati Tags: Ian Davis, Talis Platform, Talis, Cenote

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Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, Peter Brantley is the guest on this Talking with Talis podcast.  Speaking from the Berkeley campus in the San Francisco bay area, he talks about his background and the activities and role of the Federation before moving to the challenges of libraries in the digital world.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Thursday 26th July, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director - Coalition for Networked Information, a librarian, with a career in University libraries, that has been with the CNI since the beginning.

Joan talks through how the Net Generation of students now using our universities are creating challenges for libraries and librarians.

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During our conversation we reference these resources:

• CNI
• JISC
• Educating the Net Generation, Educause
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), OCLC
• College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, OCLC
• Google Book Search
• The Open Library Project

This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Wednesday 18th July, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

Technorati Tags: Joan Lippincott, CNI, Net Gen, Library, Talis, Podcast, Talking with Talis

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Peter Morville’s career started with an advanced degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information.  He has since become an internationally recognized consultant and thought leader in Information Architecture and Findability.

In this free ranging conversation we discuss some of the issues that his books Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and Ambient Findability, address, and the way search and findability are handled on the web today. The conversation is even more interesting because of Peter’s library science background.

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During the conversation we reference the following:

• Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Adam Greenfield
• Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David Weinberger
• Endeca
• Search Wikia

Technorati Tags: Peter Morville, Ambient Findability, Information Architecture, Talis, Podcasting, Talking with Talis

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