LSU Librarians Narcissa Haskins and Lauren Lay just did something unusually excellent -- they recreated a black living room from the 1970s, complete with wood paneling, period furniture, shelves of books, and more. The exhibition, which they collaborated on with Dr. Asha Winfield, an assistant professor in LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication, was created to pay tribute to black women's biopics and black living room pedagogy.  In this episode we listen to Narcissa and Lauren talk about their experience creating this display, the reaction that LSU students and faculty had to the disp ..read more

Southern University's John B. Cade Library recently became a Patent and Trademark Resource Center, a designation given to them by the US Patent and Trademark Office. In this episode, Maya Banks, who serves as the Representative for Southern's PTRC, joins Listen with LOUIS to discuss how they became a PTRC, what benefit the PTRC will have for their students and community, and more! And stay tuned to hear about Maya Banks' passion for editing ..read more

In this episode we interview Marcy Stevens, Library Services Platform Manager at LOUIS. This episode is part of our "Learn About the LOUIS Team" series, and in it we will talk with Marcy about what it's like to work on the LOUIS Team -- what she does in her daily job duties, what skills she's learned while working with LOUIS, and what she wishes more people knew about LOUIS. Plus, Marcy plays LOUIS trivia about video game librarians, library-themed restaurants, and more ..read more

It can be difficult to keep up with all of the news in the world of artificial intelligence. So in this episode, Holly Goodwin, Dr. Megan Lowe, Phillip Martin, and Rob Stephens try to give relevant updates about what they are paying attention to in AI, what tools they find useful, and how libraries should be talking to students, faculty, staff, and administration about AI. If you are an employee at a LOUIS member library and want to join our basecamp, email Rob at rob.stephens@laregents.edu ..read more

The new LOUIS Strategic Plan was just approved last week?! So in this episode Jodi Duet, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academics at Fletcher Technical Community College and Chair of the LOUIS Strategic Planning Working Group, and Laurie Blandino, Executive Director of LOUIS, will join us to talk about the process of creating the Strategic Plan. Jodi and Laurie will discuss the accomplishments of the Strategic Planning Working Group, what they learned while visiting member libraries, and what the LOUIS Strategic Plan means for the future of LOUIS. And what's more, Jodi and L ..read more

In this episode we are joined by Jeffrey Stepp, Cataloger/System Administrator/Electronic Resources Librarian at Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech University. Jeffrey will talk with us about how and others at Prescott Memorial started a fresh outreach initiative to market the library to their campus and create more student-centered programming. Plus, Listen with LOUIS Trivia returns in this episode, with Jeffrey attempting to answer questions about New York museums and archives, gaming, and more ..read more

In this episode we interview Victor Sanchez, Electronic Resources Manager at LOUIS. This episode is part of our "Learn About the LOUIS Team" series, and in it we will talk with Victor about what it's like to work on the LOUIS Team -- what he does in his daily job duties, what skills he's learned while working with LOUIS, and what he wishes more people knew about LOUIS. Plus, Victor will talk about his passion for Travel and recent trips to Colombia and Japan in an edition of Pitch Your Passion ..read more

Are you curious about how much climate change might affect your library? So was Dr. Edward Benoit, Associate Director and Associate Professor at LSU's School of Information Studies. To help answer that question, Dr. Benoit and several co-PIs have been working on PROTECCT-GLAM, a project to "develop a national categorical climate change risk assessment scale for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs)," as per the project website.  Plus, Dave Comeaux and Mike Waugh join us for a brand new segment: Tales from the Ticket Queue, where we discuss an interesting ticket that the LOUI ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more