Leadership, Rural Libraries, and Star Wars

07/26/22 • 58 min

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Dr. Sharon Morris is an Instructional Designer at Colorado Mountain College. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a Ph.D. in Managerial Leadership in Libraries. Dr. Morris has co-designed state-level library leadership institutes, and served as an instructor, in Colorado, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. She also serves on the Leadership Team and is a core instructor for the Research Institute for Public Libraries. Dr. Morris is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Denver, Library and Information Science program, where she teaches Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. She also provides workshops on leadership topics at national conferences, library staff days, and other library venues.

Kieran Hixon is the Rural and Small Libraries Consultant at the Colorado State Library. Kieran has served as President of the Association for Small and Rural Libraries and as a board member there, and is the leader of the Outstanding in their Field library leadership institute. Kieran has over 10 years experience offering professional development, both in-person and online, for rural libraries throughout the United States.

I first had the pleasure of meeting both Sharon and Kieran a few years ago when they facilitated a special session of the Arkansas State Library’s ALL-In Leadership Institute that I was participating in, and it was great to reconnect on this episode today!

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Helicopters, Oral History, and Lady Bird Johnson

My guest today is Hayley Hasik, who is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her research interests include 20th century U.S. history with an emphasis on war and memory, the Vietnam War, veterans’ experiences, and cultural history. Hayley’s current research focuses on examining the legacy of the “Helicopter War” in Vietnam. Her project seeks to uncover how and why helicopters became such an integral part of Vietnam War history and memory. Hayley has extensive oral history experience and co-founded the East Texas War and Memory Project in 2012. Her previous scholarly research focused on the American POW experience during World War II and the Vietnam helicopter experience using the life history of a Warrant Officer as a case study.

Hayley has presented at numerous academic conferences and has published several articles in the Sound Historian and War, Literature, and the Arts. Hayley is also a recipient of the 2022 Mark Grimsley Social Media Fellowship and 2019 Russell Weigley Travel Grant, both from the Society for Military History. She is a Graduate Fellow at the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society there at Southern Miss for 2021-2022, and she is working under the direction of Dr. Heather Stur.