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Official Podcast of the South Carolina State Library
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Monday Apr 02, 2018
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses the ins and outs of the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) with Dr. Heather Heckman and Amy Meaney. MIRC preserves films and videos produced outside the American feature film industry, making them available to present and future audiences.
Heather is the Director of Moving Image Research Collections and has a PhD in Communication Arts from UW Madison, where she also earned Master of Arts degrees in Library and Information Studies and Communication Arts. Her publications include "Burn After Viewing, or, Fire in the Vaults: Nitrate Decomposition and Combustibility" (The American Archivist, Winter 2010).
Amy is the Curator for Local Television News Collections and Science and Nature Films. She holds Master of Arts degree in Public History from University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Bachelor of Science in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College. Her work includes curating exhibits and programs, processing collections, managing online outreach platforms, and facilitating access and use of archival moving image materials.
Links:
- Main website: http://library.sc.edu/p/collections/mirc
- US Marine Corps Film Repository is the focus for Give 4 Garnet, USC’s Day of Giving on April 18, 2018: http://library.sc.edu/marinecorps
- USC MIRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/uofscmirc
- USC MIRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UofSCMIRC/
Monday Mar 12, 2018
Monday Mar 12, 2018
Dr. Curtis Rogers talks to South Carolina author, Bonnie Stanard about her novel, What Missing Means, as well as her poetry and her upcoming novel. Bonnie, who grew up in rural South Carolina, moved away after college and married Douglas Stanard of LaSalle, Illinois. Before her husband's retirement, her family lived in Chicago, Brussels, Atlanta, and Richmond. She has edited several regional publications, and her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Harpur Palate, Slipstream, and The Griffin. Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to South Carolina where they currently reside in Lexington. She has published four antebellum novels and two historical fiction novels and has also published a children's picture book. She is a member of the Columbia II chapter of the SC Writers Association.
Links:
- Main website: http://www.bonniestanard.com/
- Her blog: http://writepersona.blogspot.com
- SC Writers Association http://columbiawritersworkshop.blogspot.com/search/label/Bonnie%20Stanard
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Dr. Curtis Rogers interviews photojournalist Pete Marovich about the inspiration for the exhibit, Shadows of the Gullah Geechee, hosted by the South Carolina State Library. Award-winning photojournalist Pete Marovich has been working as a professional photographer for 30 years since starting as a staff photographer at a medium-sized daily newspaper in Indiana and as a stringer for the Associated Press. His photography has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Essence and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also a founding member of the photography collective, American Reportage.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses the Green Book of South Carolina with Dawn Dawson-House. The Green Book of South Carolina is the first mobile travel guide to African American cultural sites across South Carolina. Created by the S.C. African American Heritage Commission, it provides residents and visitors from around the world a user-friendly guide to discovering and celebrating enriching cultural experiences across the state of South Carolina. Dawn is the Director of Corporate Communications for the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism where she is responsible for communicating their business information to the media, industries, elected officials, and other public constituencies. She is also an ex-officio board member of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission and has worked to launch and promote the Green Book of South Carolina.
Links:
- Green Book of SC https://greenbookofsc.com
- SC African American Heritage Commission http://shpo.sc.gov/res/Pages/SCAAHC.aspx
- SC Parks, Recreation & Tourism https://www.scprt.com
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses Greenville's Fine Arts Center and more with Sarah Blackman. Sarah is a poet, fiction, and creative nonfiction author originally from Washington D.C. She graduated from Washington College with a BA in English, a minor in Creative Writing, and earned her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her poetry and prose have been published in a number of journals and magazines, including The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Oxford American Magazine and The Missouri Review. Her debut collection of short fiction, Mother Box and Other Tales, won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2012. And her most recent novel, Hex, came out in 2016.
Links:
- Fine Arts Center http://www.fineartscenter.net/
- Crashtest Magazine http://www.crashtestmag.com/