Episodes

15
Aug. 6, 2026

Episode 15: Nancy Groves - From Library Science to Global Impact: Knowledge, Communication, and the United Nations

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...
14
July 2, 2026

Episode 14: Ole Olesen-Bagneux - From Libraries to Organizing Meaning

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. ...