Episode 1: Sarasota County Library Director - Sarabeth Kalajian

Information Specialist Lorraine See discusses what it's like to do reference work in a call center environment. This is the last episode of Have You Heard before a new direction/format.

This week is part 2 of our talk with Ms. Alicia Long of the libraries at State College of Florida. In addition to her academic library work, Alicia worked on Prime Time for the Manatee County Libraries, served nationally as a member of REFORMA, and, this past year, served on the selection committee of the Pura Belpré literature awards for ALA.

This week is part I of our talk with Ms. Alicia Long of the libraries at State College of Florida. In addition to her academic library work, Alicia worked on Prime Time for the Manatee County Libraries, served nationally as a member of REFORMA, and, this past year, served on the selection committee of the Pura Belpré literature awards for ALA.

This episode Arlen and Hal go guestless and discuss upcoming events. Arlen also treats us to a song on his ukulele. He invites listeners to add lyrics to this potential new intro song.

Arlen and Hal discuss the importance of the Ask A Librarian program.

Hal and Arlen ponder what peronsality comes to mind when we think of the library. In addition to the events of the day, the duo also discuss WSLR going solar.

Arlen and Hal chew the fat about freely available webinars through the library system: http://register.learnsurge.com/events/tags/sarasota/ Arlen also shares his favorite iPad app.

We finish up our lovely talk with Mary Brown at North Sarasota Library ("Getting to know you, getting to know all about you..."). And Hal appears to have fared less than well in a run-in with some vegetable matter. Maybe you can help us figure that one out.

This week features part II out of what will be III segments spent in a lovely discussion with Ms. Mary Brown, Manager at North Sarasota Library.

This week we begin our talk with Mary Brown at North Sarasota Library. It was a delightful talk with enough good meat on the bone that we'll have at least 2, and maybe even 3 weeks with "Ma Brown."