Episodes

In this episode of the Shush-Free Zone host Dawn Brushammar talks with Barisa Abdifatah, a knowledge management consultant, educator and certified knowledge manager, about the strong connection between librarianship and KM. Topics include reference interviews, taxonomy, ontology, research and information literacy and they also explore the knowledge that doesn't fit neatly into a database: tacit knowledge, conversations, communities of practice and the relationships between people. And beca...

In this episode of Shush-Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar talks with Alison King, career coach, founder of King Career Services, and creator of Leaping Librarians. Alison shares her own journey from academic, public, and school libraries into corporate copy editing and what she has learned from helping other librarians make their own career leaps. They talk about recognizing the transferable skills librarians already have, translating those skills for employers outside the profession, networking...

In this episode of Shush-Free Zone, host Dawn Brushammar is joined by Nancy Groves, Chief of Digital Strategy at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. Nancy's career has taken her from library school to CNN, NPR, the United Nations Library, global social media leadership, and now overseeing the digital strategy that helps communicate some of the world's most important environmental issues. Nancy shares how the same core principles of librarianship such as organizin...

In the first episode of Season 2, host Dawn Brushammar is joined by librarian, researcher, author, and technology evangelist Ole Olesen-Bagneux for a wide-ranging conversation about knowledge organization, metadata, semantics, and why library and information science is more relevant today than ever before. Ole shares how a fascination with rare books, computers, and organizing information eventually led him from Library and Information Science into enterprise data, metadata management, and AI. ...