Feb 12, 2021
Mark interviews Julie Bonser (Head of Youth Services) and Michelle Rutter (Teen Services Librarian) from Eastern Munroe Public Library in Pennsylvania.
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In their conversation, Mark, Julie, and Michelle talk about:
After the interview, Mark shares a couple of reflections about things the conversation with Julie and Michelle made him think about. He also thanks patrons and listeners.
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Julie Bonser graduated with a degree in Elementary Education but somehow ended up in libraries. She is currently the Head of Youth Services at the Eastern Monroe Public Library in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, but also has prior experience in circulation, cataloging, and adult reference. Serving kids and teens is her main passion, which keeps her energized, up-to-date, and endlessly entertained. Julie is a lifelong resident of the Pocono Mountains. She enjoys children’s literature, board games, Tetris, and strumming the ukulele.
Michelle Rutter is a Teen Services Public
Librarian in NE Pennsylvania along with her skeleton assistant Bona
Lisa. She is a lifelong bibliophile and has enjoyed teaching such a
big word to little kids when she worked in school libraries. She
has also worked in an academic library where she once cataloged a
piece of heavy machinery as a joke because the facilities
department parked it in the library for so long. When she's not
perpetrating benign mayhem at work or reading she enjoys dancing,
yoga, and various creative pursuits.
Bona Lisa is a Halloween decoration given a greater afterlife as Michelle's pandemic companion and trusty sidekick on the job. She's a bit thin-skinned but her work ethic is hard to beat as she has worked her fingers to the bone.
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0