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Charleston Library Conference 

Jan 30, 2024

Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions and Collections Services of the University of Florida Libraries, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Lindsay Cronk, Dean of Libraries, Tulane University.

Lindsay was the first elected...


Jan 22, 2024

Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White, Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Kyle Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy, Harvard University. 

Kyle is both a lawyer and a librarian. He founded the Copyright...


Jan 16, 2024

Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series.

Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews James Daunt, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest retail bookseller, of stationery and gift retailer Paper...


Jan 8, 2024

In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Zack Ellis, Founder and CEO of TheirStory.

Zack initially created TheirStory, an oral history recording and presentation platform, to allow his family members to record and share their life stories....