Hiring Librarians<p><strong>Hiring Librarians Podcast S02 E04: Lindsay Cronk</strong></p><p>Oh hey, it’s the fourth episode of season two!</p><p>As I mentioned last week, the thing that galvanized me to get this back up and running is that I wanted to do episodes with the candidates for 2026-27 ALA President. <a href="https://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/alaelection" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Voting starts March 10</a>, so that gave me a pretty firm deadline.</p><p>I posted an episode with <a href="https://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/03/04/hiring-librarians-podcast-s02-e03-andrea-jamison/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Andrea Jamison</a> on Tuesday and last week I posted an episode with <a href="https://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/02/25/hiring-librarians-podcast-s02-e02-maria-mccauley/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Maria McCauley</a>. </p><p>This is the third candidate and final episode, with <a href="https://cronkthevote.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lindsay Cronk</a>. Normally I would post this next Tuesday, but voting will already be open by then, so here it is on a Friday. </p><p>I enjoyed talking with all of the candidates. My hope is by listening to all three episodes, you’ll have a better sense of their unique perspectives on the work that faces ALA in our current extremely challenging time.</p><p>Some links to things Lindsay and I discuss in this episode:</p><ul><li>Lindsay mentions Fobazi Ettarh’s work on <a href="https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vocational Awe</a> </li><li>I talk about resilience as a property of the organization, rather than the individual. My thinking on this was catalyzed by this article:<ul><li>Berg, J., Galvan, A., & Tewell, E. (2020). Responding to and reimagining resilience in academic libraries. <em>Journal of New Librarianship</em>, <em>3</em>(1), 1–4. <a href="https://doi.org/10.21173/newlibs/4/1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.21173/newlibs/4/1</a></li></ul></li><li>We talk about the <a href="https://ala-apa.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ALA-APA</a>, ALA’s Allied Professional Association</li><li>Lindsay recommends Kate Woodsome’s Substack <a href="https://katewoodsome.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Invisible Threads</a></li><li>Lindsay also recommends the concept of critical hope, especially in the work of Kaetrena Davis Kendrick. You can learn more about Kaetrena’s work on critical hope <a href="https://renewalslis.com/course-brief-critical-hope-self-preservation-in-contemporary-librarianship-reflections-on-positionality/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://renewalslis.com/registered-critical-hope-course-with-dominican-university-january-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>. And if you’ve got your own thoughts about critical hope, she and Ione T. Damasco are editing a book on the topic and the <a href="https://renewalslis.com/call-for-proposals-catalyzing-critical-hope-in-libraries/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">call for proposals is open</a>. </li><li>I mention the poem <em>Even in a Time of Intolerance</em> by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, which I found through the newsletter of yoga teacher <a href="https://www.vickierussellbell.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vickie Russell Bell</a></li></ul><p>You can find an AI-generated and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kb3B-zt8o6NFFOyt1jfLLb7-mXIHV6Mi5cEWYdosUl8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">not completely error free transcript here</a>.</p><p>This podcast is available on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF73zo1jeGQ2Gh0i9lFk2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hiring-librarians/id1722140219" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7iV7io42YcgsolZXXSjbAzgC3lTWtfBY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">YouTube music</a> and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform). </p><p>I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. 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