Heather, Drew, and Rob introduce Common Stacks, and share what the podcast is all about while also breaking down the news on the recent Clarivate/ProQuest merger.
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Why is it so hard for us to talk about pricing and value we get from the resources we buy? Why is it hard to get transparent pricing? 
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Rob and Heather share some of their own experiences running consortia, and share what it is that consortia do, and why your library should belong to one.

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How is Open Access publishing changing the publishing game, how are libraries reacting, and how are vendors like CloudSource OA doing to provide services in this area?
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There is so much content being created every day on websites from NGO's, non-profits, political organizations, and more. How can we collect and organize that information to make it usable in research? Coherent Digital talks about how they tame wild content.
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Tim Coates has been working in libraries and publishing for over 40 years, and his recent research on library use has ruffled some feathers, and given us a lot to think about.
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Heather and Rob celebrate some of the librarians who have impacted Rob's life and career, and get their advice for up and coming librarians.
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Heather, Heather, and Rob talked with Emily Drabinski about her plans for ALA, and what she'd do with $5 million to build a library. 
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Heather spoke with Michael Blackwell from ReadersFirst about the ebook landscape in public libraries.
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Cordelia Anderson is the author of the new book, Library Marketing and Communications: Strategies to Increase Relevance and Results, from ALA Editions.
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Dr. Sarah Clark is the Dean and University Librarian at LaSalle University, and founder of the Kind Leadership Guild and the Kind Leadership Challenge Podcast.
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Steven Rosato is the Manager of the OverDrive Professional business unit, the division of OverDrive that specializes in serving HigherEd Academic institutions.
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Henry Bankhead is the City Librarian at San Rafael Public Library. He is a champion of self publishing & community publishing, enabling libraries to be maker-spaces of words.
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Josh Nicholson is the CEO and founder of Scite.ai, which helps researchers see not just what papers have received citations, but how those papers are cited.
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David Adimora is a business development leader, notably in the technology industry, helping clients in a cross section of education and industry. Listen or read the transcript

Jami Yazdani is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 16 years of experience managing a portfolio of innovative projects and planning initiatives.  Listen or read the transcript

John Seguin is the President, Co-Founder, and Chief Librarian at Third Iron, enabling the vital role libraries play in the research process with innovative technologies that meet the expectations of today’s user.

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Peter McCracken is an Electronic Resources Librarian at Cornell University, and also the cofounder of Serials Solutions, and ShipIndex.org. 

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Ben Ide is the Head of Resource and Metadata Services at the University of Hartford, and is building a community around libraries using Bibliovation. 
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Jeff Goins is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Art of Work and Real Artists Don't Starve among others.
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Jayanti Addleman is the Director of the Hayward Public Library, and a fierce library advocate. We speak about how to learn advocacy, and why it's important.
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Frank Pennetti is a business librarian at Broward County Library, and he oversees their Creation Station Coworking Incubator.
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David Brace is the Head of Sales at PrivCo, and joined us to talk about what makes PrivCo different than other business databases. 
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