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Charleston Library Conference 

Mar 28, 2022

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Lindsay Wertman, President, IGI Global; Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub; and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Lindsay is the newly appointed President of IGI Global, a smaller,...


Mar 21, 2022

Audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled "Using Data to Drive Decisions: Libraries, Publishers and the New Open” presented by Adam Der, License Manager, Max Planck Digital Library; Matthew Willmott, Open Access Collection Strategist, California Digital Library; Melissa Junior, Senior...


Mar 14, 2022

Today's episode features a conversation with Joyce Backus of the National Library of Medicine. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. 

Joyce retired two years ago as Associate Director for Library Operations of...


Mar 7, 2022

Join us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Jason Priem, Co-Founder of OurResearch, Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings.

As a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jason led the...