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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Josh Cromwell , Scholarly Communications Manager, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Josh is author of the recent Charleston Briefings Institutional Repositories . He has a background in history, and when asked what the appeal of joining a library was to him, he says it merged two of…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Georgios Papadopoulos , Chairman and Founder, Atypon. Georgios was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and says he started out wanting to study astrophysics, but a physicist talked him into studying math instead. In 1983, he had a professor that came from the U.S. who taught two classes in computer…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Russell Michalak , Library Director, Goldey-Beacom College, and Founding Partner, Inclusive Knowledge Solutions. Russell has been immersed in libraries throughout his life. His mother was a librarian, and he kept coming back to librarianship despite an initial rebellion to pursue a library…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Orland Hoeber , Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, at University of Regina; Founder, Dilex Search. Orland says from an early age, he has always been interested in problem solving, trying to make sense of things and understand how things worked. He gravitated towards computing…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Steve Smith , AI Gateway and MCP Pilot Advisory for Scholarly Publishers. Steve has enjoyed a wide-ranging academic publishing career, with half spent in book publishing and half spent in journal publishing, and has held senior roles at AIP Publishing, Frontiers, the American Psychological…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ben Lee , Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School. Ben initially trained as an astrophysicist with a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, but he isn't out there looking for asteroids these days. He is currently an editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly and teaches an MLIS…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Zakayo Kjellstrom , Investigator, Swedish Agency for the Media, which " works to promote freedom of expression and diversity in the media market, where multiple voices are heard and consumers have access to a wide and accessible range of radio, television and news media." Zakayo currently lives…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Jon Brassey , Founder, Trip Database. J on says he doesn't consider himself to be an entrepreneur, but a problem solver, who created the Trip Database, a medical question-and-answer service for practitioners that has been running for almost 30 years and contains over 125 million clinical…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Gary Price , Editor, LJ's InfoDOCKET and ARL Day in Review. Gary, a very well-known figure across the scholarly publishing industry, is a librarian, consultant, researcher and speaker who regularly provides important and timely news, updates and information. In this conversation, he talks with…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Allison Belan , Director for Strategic Innovation, Duke University Press. Allison has a background in English and Philosophy. In this conversation, she talks with Michael about her start in type setting, working on school newspapers and school literary magazines and then a school journal in…
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Helen Bischoff , Coordinator of Liaison Services, University of Kentucky Libraries. In this conversation, Helen talks about her early experiences of working as a High School English teacher in Kentucky. She reflects on how overcrowding in the school caused her to leave her classroom during her…
