Library Podcast

Taylor Worley is Assistant Professor of Christian Thought & Tradition and Associate Dean for Spiritual Life, Campus Ministries at Union. In this episode of the Summar Library Podcast we get a chance to talk with Taylor about his teaching, films, his undergraduate experience at Union, graduate work in the UK, a trip to Chicago and Libraries. Professor Worley actually met his wife, Anna Worley, in the Library at Union.

In this episode Paul and I introduce and interview Anna Beth Morgan, the director of the library. She discusses her coming to Union and the earliest mentions of the possibility of a new library. She then discusses the timeline of recent events including the announcement of a library feasibility study this past December, the preparations of the library staff for a new library and this past Friday's announcement that the board of trustees have approved Union University to go ahead with the library project,hoping to break ground one year from now. Anna Beth discussed attending library building conferences and visiting other academic libraries to understand more about trends in library building projects today. We discussed the potential for having a heritage room in the library, possibly a cafe and even a family study area. We also thanked and bid farewell to our graduating student library employees.

In this episode of the Summar Library Podcast we discuss The Classical Education display. Union freshman Grant Riley was educated at The Franklin Classical School in Franklin, Tennessee. He talks about that experience, his decision to come to Union and his book collection. Reference Librarian extraordinaire discusses the Lest We Forget digital yearbooks, Ancestry.Com, Women's basketball and more. In the library we are promoting our annual open house event that happens next Monday. We have a new evening circulation supervisor, Ellen Kimbro, so stop by the library in the evening to meet her. Last but not least our Circulation and Interlibrary Loan specialist, Stephen Mount has a new daughter by the name of Charlotte Marie.

In this episode of The Summar Library Podcast, TR Parker, Paul Sorrell and Stephen Mount interview Tim Ellsworth, co-author of Pujols: More Than The Game and Director of News and Media Relations at Union University.

In this episode of The Summar Library Podcast we discuss new dynamic Research Guides, Refworks, The Naxos Music Library, Spring Library Hours, The Movie Display, The Academy Awards and The Super Bowl. We laugh a little while we talk about what is going in the Library and in the world.