Library Failure Confessions

About Library Failure Confessions

A show all about reclaiming failure in libraries and life. After all, fail is just a four letter word.

Publisher

The League of Awesome Librarians

Category

comedy · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

23 Nov 2021

Latest episode

31 Oct 2023

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Oct 2023

   Episode 6: Jennifer Stubbs

   Welcome to episode 6 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in this episode is: Jennifer Stubbs (https://www.bradley.edu/academic/lib/staff/profile.dot?id=c6e0c282-30ee-4702-8a85-4f75442f252b). Jennifer is the Instruction and Outreach Librarian at Bradley University. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Episode 6: Jennifer (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/episode-6-jennifer) Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) Download Episode (https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1628705928-acmescience-library-failure-confession-episode-5-shelley.mp3) Di Breun by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/211793) Soothe by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/211792) Plum Blossom by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/211813) Jeopardy Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DykZEOV5wD4) Law and Order Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4-aEGvqQM) Benboncan Sad Trombone (https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/83916/) Sorting Through Clothes (https://freesound.org/people/Mountain852/sounds/365831/) Window Glass Breaking (https://freesound.org/people/P.Jezisek/sounds/519349/) Man Snoring (https://freesound.org/people/Jordishaw/sounds/490799/) Paolo Snores (https://freesound.org/people/thorvandahl/sounds/184237/) Woman Snoring (https://freesound.org/people/SavReese/sounds/595470/) Wakeup (https://freesound.org/people/mahsa.sunil/sounds/666277/) Wake Up Scared (https://freesound.org/people/ThePig01/sounds/588666/) Vault Door (https://freesound.org/people/lezaarth/sounds/445099/)

2. 

   29 Sept 2023

   Episode 5: Shelley

   Welcome to episode 5 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in this episode is: Shelley Carr (https://www.seattleu.edu/library/staff-directory/profiles/carr-shelley.html). Shelley is the Student Engagement Librarian at Seattle University. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Library Failure Confession Episode 5: Shelley (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/library-failure-confession-episode-5-shelley) Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) Download Episode (https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1628705928-acmescience-library-failure-confession-episode-5-shelley.mp3) Four Count by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/204772) Great Great Lengths by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/204773) Cash Register (https://freesound.org/people/tono2511/sounds/650489/) Pencil Writing (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/398271/)

3. 

   30 Nov 2022

   Episode 4: Charlie

   Welcome to episode 4 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in this episode is: Charlie Bennet (https://charliebennett.org/). Charlie is the Public Engagement Librarian at Georgia Tech. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen and executive produced by Ashley Maynor. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Episode 4: Charlie (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/episode-4-charlie) Entwined Oddity by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/148165) Hardtop Rocks by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/148167) Tower of Mirrors by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/148170) The Crisper by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/148173) Russian Voice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXd9QzEZ1tQ&t=37s) Australian Voice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Ll0MIE-N4) Church Choir (https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/90964/) UFO (https://freesound.org/people/JohnsonBrandEditing/sounds/173948/) Guitar Riff (https://freesound.org/people/mr-guitarra/sounds/434954/) Whoosh (https://freesound.org/people/alanmcki/sounds/461021/)

4. 

   28 Feb 2022

   Episode 3: Chanté

   Welcome to episode 3 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in this episode is: Chanté Hope (https://libguides.oldwestbury.edu/prf.php?account_id=227014). Chanté is a librarian from the Bronx, although her New York accent does not come through in typical, mild-mannered conversation. She is newly employed as the Resource Sharing Librarian at SUNY College at Old Westbury (in Long Island, New York). Prior to this, Chante served at the aforementioned Maritime College as a Student Experience and Outreach Librarian, and she has been part of the profession overall since 2008. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen and executive produced by Ashley Maynor. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Episode 3: Chanté (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/episode-3-chante) Music and Sound Effects: Eagles Hotel California (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80) Blue Dot Session Heliotrope (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Heliotrope_1250) Broke For Free Wash Out (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Petal/Broke_For_Free_-_Petal_-_03_Wash_Out) Soft and Furious Superconnected Sleep (https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/25237/) Zagi2 Military March (https://freesound.org/people/zagi2/sounds/204196/) Veridansunrise Tenhut (https://freesound.org/people/Veridiansunrise/sounds/162010/) WebbFilmsUK Marching (https://freesound.org/people/WebbFilmsUK/sounds/200321/) bpayri chattering Students (https://freesound.org/people/bpayri/sounds/328622/) Avant Debris Women Cheer (https://freesound.org/people/Avantdebris/sounds/380400/) Inspectorj Party Horn (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/484267/) dmjames Sad Party Blower (https://freesound.org/people/dmjames/sounds/140095/) Soundsexciting Crowd Cheering (https://freesound.org/people/SoundsExciting/sounds/365132/) Tim.Khan boo 01 (https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/336997/) CipoTCX Trauermarsch frei nach Chopin  (https://soundcloud.com/cipotcx/trauermarsch-frei-nach-chopin) Sciencectn The Ants Go Jumping (https://soundcloud.com/sciencectn/the-ants-go-jumping) Blue Dot Sessions Planting Flags (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/85367)

5. 

   19 Jan 2022

   Episode 2 – Mandi Shepp

   Welcome to episode 2 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in our debut episode is: Amanda (Mandi) M. Shepp (https://www.fredonia.edu/library/faculty/Amanda-Shepp). Mandi currently serves as the Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives in The State University of New York at Fredonia’s Daniel A. Reed Library Special Collections & Archives Division. She presents and writes on topics related to digitization and historical subjects within the realms of Spiritualism, Victoriana, and the Occult. When she’s not elbow-deep in materials from a bygone era, Mandi can be found homebrewing, experimenting in the kitchen, and enjoying life with her happy-go-lucky husband, Chris, and enormous Norwegian Forest Cat, Kujira. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen and executive produced by Ashley Maynor. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) Music and Sound Effects: Dawn Line Approaching by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26558) Brimevil by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26559) Gentle Son by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26560) Trois Gnossiennes 3 by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26561) Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26562) Capering by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26564) Chrome and Wax by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26582)</a> Chicken Clucking (https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/456803/) Record Scratch (https://freesound.org/people/luffy/sounds/3536/) Who are you! (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/453169/) 1 KHz (https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/sounds/316853/) Gasp (https://freesound.org/people/laft2k/sounds/437667/) Planting Flags by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/85367) Download the episode (https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1199495299-acmescience-failure-confessions-episode-2-mandi.mp3) ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Failure Confessions Episode 2: Mandi (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/failure-confessions-episode-2-mandi)

6. 

   23 Nov 2021

   Episode 1 – Annette M Vadnais

   Welcome to episode 1 of Library Failure Confessions from the League of Awesome Librarians. Our confessor in our debut episode is: Annette M Vadnais (https://twitter.com/annettemvadnais) (she/her). She is the Student Success and Outreach Librarian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst which serves 22,000 undergraduates. In this role, she promotes the libraries’ services and resources to the undergraduate population, focusing on first-year students, first-generation students, and transfer students. In her attempt to be approachable she is also known as the Purple Haired Librarian at UMass, Amherst. She even has an alias e-mail of purplehairlibrarian@umass.edu. Library Failure Confessions is edited and produced by Sam Hansen and executive produced by Ashley Maynor. You can find more about the show at libfails.com/podcast (https://libfails.com/podcast) and you can submit your own confession story at libfails.com/podsub (https://libfails.com/podsub). Subscribe via Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-failure-confessions/id1596929174) Subscribe via Google Play (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9saWJmYWlscy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvZmFpbHVyZWNvbmZlc3Npb25zL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8) Subscribe via RSS (https://libfails.com/category/failureconfessions/feed/) Music and Sound Effects: Calisson by Blue Dot Sessions (“https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/26596”) Ding Ding (https://freesound.org/people/JohnsonBrandEditing/sounds/173932/) Awww (https://freesound.org/people/phmiller42/sounds/124996/) Classroom (https://freesound.org/people/laserlife/sounds/361400/) Telescope (https://freesound.org/people/taure/sounds/362779/) Downstairs (https://freesound.org/people/xavimuse/sounds/233258/) Swish Up (https://freesound.org/people/lonce/sounds/200995/) Children (https://freesound.org/people/relwin/sounds/250853/) Purse Rustle (https://freesound.org/people/nickrave/sounds/178068/) Uh Oh (https://freesound.org/people/SamsterBirdies/sounds/398979/) Slap Drop (https://freesound.org/people/DJ%20Burnham/sounds/67423/) Rebecca Black: Friday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0) ACMEScience (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience) · Library Failure Confessions: Episode 1 – Annette M Vadnais (https://soundcloud.com/acmescience/annettewithoutro)

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