Listen with LOUIS

Join us as we learn from Kat Williamson, Librarian at Centenary College, and our first ever student on the podcast, SGA Vice President of Institutional Affairs at Centenary, Cayman Hawkins. Kat and Cayman talk about how they conceived of and created a career closet at Centenary, a place where students can check out clothing they may need for an interview or other important occasion. Kat and Cayman also share their passion in our "Pitch Your Passion" episode, which for both of them happens to be sports!

LUC 2023 was a huge success and so much fun, so we wanted to share some sounds from the conference with you in this episode.

During the conference, Rob Stephens interviewed several conference attendees about their experience with the LOUIS Users Conference. We hope you enjoy!

Recently LOUIS has redesigned our website to improve navigation, accessibility, and design. In this episode, Elizabeth Joan Kelly joins us to talk about the process of redesigning louislibraries.org.

If you're interested in refreshing your library's website, give this a listen to hear the process LOUIS went through!

Plus, hear Elizabeth talk about her passion for music, and her endeavors as a composer and radio program host.+

This week we will listen to Mike Waugh describe his duties as Library Services Platform Administrator at LOUIS. Mike will talk about his daily job duties, his favorite things about his job, as well as his passion for homesteading! This episode will be the first in a series of episodes where we will be talking to each of the LOUIS Team members about what they do at LOUIS.

ChatGPT, the new large language model created by Open AI, has created new challenges and possibilities for the classroom due to its ability to quickly generate large amounts of text that approximate human writing. In this episode, Lauren McAdams and Karla Stewart, two librarians from Baton Rouge Community College, talk about strategies for approaching this technology in the classroom, what it means for assessment, and so much more!

Each year, Nicholls Library participates in Nicholls State University's annual day of giving, Give-N-Day, and they always do it with creativity and flair. In this episode, listen to Andrew Barbier and Brandy Burbante talk about how they came up with new ideas for fundraising to start a board game collection at Nicholls.
Then, listen as Andrew and Brandy attempt a game of LOUIS Trivia!

In addition to being a librarian at Dupre Library at University of Louisiana at Lafayette,  Peter Klubek is an artist and member of Nunu Arts and Culture Collective. Peter realized that much of the community programs at Nunu might have crossover appeal to the library, so he and Tiffany Ellis started using ideas from the collective to inform outreach initiatives at Dupre. The result has been "Creative Place Making," which encourages rethinking of the space of a library to better tailor it to the needs of its users.
Plus we get to hear about Peter's passion for his art, and Tiffany's love for baking in an edition of "Pitch Your Passion."

Learn more about events at Dupre Library here: https://library.louisiana.edu/services/user-engagement

Learn more about Nunu Arts and Culture collective here: https://nunuaccollective.homesteadcloud.com/.

Recently, Nicollette Davis, who serves as the Assistant Librarian for Kinesiology, Social Work, and Health Sciences at LSU Libraries, was named a 2023 American Library Association Emerging Leader. Nicollette joins us to discuss the work she is doing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and gives advice and reading recommendations for those who want to start their own DEI work.

Plus, we get to learn a little about Nicollette outside of the library when she plays "Pitch Your Passion" and talks about how she refills her cup when she's not at work.

When she was hired at Northwestern State University as Head of Collection Development and Cataloging, Debbie Huntington was looking for a fresh way to grow Watson Library's collection and to do unique programming. The result has been Watson's Living Library, a program where Debbie recruits community members to talk about their life stories and experiences in a panel setting. Watson Library records those panels and considers them a valuable part of their collection.

In this episode of Listen with LOUIS, hear Debbie and Dr. Megan Lowe, Director of University Libraries at NSU, talk about the work it takes to create a living library both from the library and others on NSU's campus, the effect this program has on the community, and how Watson's Living Library fits with the mission statement of their institution.

Debbie and Megan have two forthcoming Watson's Living Library panels planned: late Spring 2023 they will host "What It Means to Be an NSU Athlete," and then during fall 2023 they are planning a session titled "Wounded Warriors."

Episode 2 of Listen with LOUIS features Rebecca Kelley talking about her work with the Louisiana Statewide Digital Inclusion Pilot, what digital equity and digital literacy are, and how librarians are at the forefront of helping create digital equity in their communities.

Plus, Rebecca plays a game of Listen with LOUIS Trivia about digital libraries that may or may not include Ryan Adams live concert footage, listservs on scythes and scything, and digital scans that are... upside down.

For more information about digital inclusion in Louisiana, Subscribe to the LOUIS Digital Inclusion Digest: https://louis.libwizard.com/f/digital_inclusion.

Join us as we listen to two librarians from Louisiana State University Alexandria: Martha Dauzat, Services & Outreach Manager, and Michelle Riggs Waller, University Archivist and Head of Central Louisiana Collections at the Bolton Library.

Martha and Michelle have lead new outreach initiatives in the library including a tiny art show, mini golf in the library, and a two-sentence horror story competition. We hear about how they have used these initiatives to better reach students, and what it took to start such initiatives at Bolton.

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