The Library Pros

Latest Episodes
Episode 108 Jeff Jankowski, President of Hoopla Digital
On this installment of the podcast, Chris speaks with the founder and President of Hoopla Digital, Jeff Jankowski. Jeff talks about Hooplas birth with Midwest Tapes, his origin story along with how H
Episode 107 – Melissa Taylor Fayetteville Public Library Center for Innovation
What an amazing time with Melissa Taylor, Manager of the Center for Innovation at the Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Melissa shares about her corporate sponsorships with Walmar
Episode 106 Aaron Whitfield
In this installment, the fellas were lucky enough to have Aaron Whitfield on the podcast. Aaron spoke about all Aaron has accomplished in his time in Libraryland along with being a BIPOC and what that
Episode 105 David Ecker Technology for Libraries
Joining Chris and Bob is David Ecker from Stony Brook University. Dave is a repeat guest and its always great to speak to him. Dave spoke about being library technologists, time management for manag
Episode 104 Dr. Temara Hajjat from the Bowel Sounds Podcast!
Joining Chris and Bob on the pod is Temara Hajjat Gastroenterologist at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and co host of the Bowel Sounds Podcast. Temara spoke with the fellas about what its like to go t
Episode 103 East End Tech Committee
This is really cool LOCAL episode for our friends on Long Island but also a great inspirational episode for everyone. Joining the podcast is Lilly Kiel from the Cutchogue/New Suffolk Free Library, Ste
Special Episode Connecticut Library Association Part 2 – Alice Knapp, Scott Jarzombek, Kate Byroade and Scott Brill – Mental Health and Well-being
In part 2 of this special episode, Chris and Bob were joined by Alice Knapp, Director of the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut, Scott Jarzombek, Director of the Fairfield Library in Fairfield,
Special Episode – Connecticut Library Conference Part 1 Doug Lord
In this 2 part episode, Chris and Bob travel to Groton Connecticut at the invitation of the Connecticut Library Association to speak during their conference lunch period about mental health and wellbe
Episode 101 – Meghan Volchko – Inside Overdrive
Joining Chris for this episode is Meghan Volcheko, Manager, Public Library Collection Development at OverDrive, Meghan talks about how she and her team assist libraries and library systems with collec
Episode 100 – Carol Ann Tack, Podcasting & Readers
In our 100th Episode, we have asked Alumni Carol Ann Tack from the podcast Top Shelf at the Merrick Library to return to talk about her podcast, readers advisory, her book discussions (which are the t