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Charleston Library Conference 

Feb 28, 2022

Today's episode features a conversation with Emily Poznanski, Director of the Central European University Press. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  Emily is currently based out of Vienna. Prior to her current...


Feb 22, 2022

Audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled “On the Open Access Road Again: Is the value of the big deal declining?” presented by Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; John McDonald, Director of Product Management, Assessment & Analytics, EBSCO Information...


Feb 14, 2022

Today's episode features a conversation with Jim O’Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference.  

Jim O’Donnell was a longstanding academic and professor of...


Feb 7, 2022

This week's episode has audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the “Long Arm of the Law” session, presented by Kevin Smith, Dean of Libraries and Director of the University Press, University of Kansas and Lila Bailey, Policy Council for the Internet Archive, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior...