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Business, Careers and Research Center at Richland Library

Dr. Curtis Rogers talks with two staff members, Sylvie Golod, Career Services Specialist and Diane Luccy, Business and Careers Manager from the Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina about the library's Business, Careers and Research Center.

The Center is located on the third level at the main branch and offers job seekers, small business customers, students and families the perfect place to explore career or entrepreneurial opportunities, attend classes, complete online job applications or work on a research paper. The space offers a Career Coaching Center, Computer Classroom, Coworking Center, a Family Career Studio and much more!

Link: https://www.richlandlibrary.com/jobs 

 

Family of Warriors with Ed DeVos

Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses Family of Warriors with author Ed DeVos. This is a story of five brothers who serve in five different combat areas during World War II and about their love for their country and for their fellow soldiers. And it is a story of a mother and father’s love for their warrior sons and how ordinary people answered the call to serve their country and ran to the sound of the guns and not away from them. These men did not serve for riches or for wealth. They did not serve for fame or notoriety. They served because it is their duty to their country. They served for the common good. They served because it was the “right thing to do.”

DeVos is a highly decorated military officer and is also an experienced writer of thought-provoking historical fiction. His four works, The Stain, The Chaplain's Cross, Revenge at Kings Mountain, a Revolutionary War battle fought in October, 1780, and Family of Warriors, feature characters who model valor, integrity, honor, and courage as they face spiritual and moral dilemmas that warriors have always faced on the battlefield. His works inspire the readers to search how they too would fare in the dilemma posed. He now makes his home in South Carolina where he speaks to various veteran, church, and civic organizations about these themes.

Links:

• https://www.deedspublishing.com/devos/
• https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6881702.Ed_Devos

Poetry with Ed Madden, Columbia’s Poet Laureate – Episode 39

Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses poetry and more with Dr. Ed Madden, Columbia South Carolina’s first Poet Laureate. Dr. Madden is a poet, activist, professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Signals, which won the 2007 SC Poetry Book Prize and Prodigal: Variations; Nest; Ark, and he recently edited Theologies of Terrain by Tim Conroy. His chapbook My Father’s House was selected for the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series and his poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, The Book of Irish American Poetry, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Poetry Ireland Review, Los Angeles Review, and online at The Good Men Project. He is also the first poet laureate of Columbia, South Carolina.

Links:

• Columbia City Poet Laureate http://www.columbiapoet.org/
• University of South Carolina Bio http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/our-people/faculty-staff/madden_ed.php
• The State recognizes anniversary of Charleston church shooting with front-page poem http://ivoh.org/state-recognizes-anniversary-charleston-church-shooting-front-page-poem/ 
• POEM: The lesson that night http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article84322027.html
• Parking Ticket Poetry http://www.columbiapoet.org/2017/04/01/did-you-get-a-parking-ticket/
• Ed Madden’s poem ‘Body Politic’ honoring Columbia’s strength in unity, diversity http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article130049739.html 

Uncompromising Activist Richard Greener – Episode 38

Dr. Curtis Rogers interviews Dr. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, author of Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College. Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US diplomat to a white country, serving in Vladivostok, Russia. A notable speaker and writer for racial equality, he also served as a dean of the Howard University School of Law and as the administrative head of the Ulysses S. Grant Monument Association. Yet he died in obscurity, his name barely remembered.

Katherine Reynolds Chaddock is distinguished professor emerita of education at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine: Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music and Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College.

Links

• Johns Hopkins University Press https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/uncompromising-activist
• Dr. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/education/faculty-staff/chaddock_katherine.php
• Richard T. Greener Memorial https://www.sc.edu/greener/

Make Space for Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang - Episode 37

Dr. Curtis Rogers interviews Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang about her research and work with makerspaces in libraries. Dr. Moorefield-Lang's research is focused in technology in education and libraries, specifically honing in on the narratives and uses of technology based tools in those settings. She is the currently the American Association of School Librarian’s Director for Region Four and member of the AASL Board of Directors. Heather continues her work integrating technology in libraries and classrooms under her brand Tech 15. Her current research involves exploring makerspaces in library settings around the world along with the policies, technologies, successes, and challenges that accompany those learning spaces.

Dr. Moorefield-Lang is a hands-on educator who strives to deliver real world experiences to her students whether they are face-to-face or online. Working with a wide range of teaching and instructional styles as well as with a tool box of technologies Moorefield-Lang hopes that her classes are informative and useful in practical settings. She teaches Information Technologies in the School Library Media Program at the University of South Carolina.

Links:

• Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/faculty-staff/moorefield-lang_heather.php
• Makers in the library: case studies of 3D printers and maker spaces in library settings http://publish.uwo.ca/~ajohn352/website/content/articles/article1.pdf
• MakeAbility: Creating Accessible Makerspace Events in a Public Library http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01616846.2014.970425
• The Maker Movement in Education https://search.proquest.com/openview/981b3275b6d05a31c5fd8d5c6a16cd50/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41677
• Maker Ed http://makered.org/makerspaces/