{"id":2124,"date":"2013-12-12T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2013-12-12T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:20:26","slug":"linda-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/linda-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 90: Maine State Librarian Linda Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a090
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0December 7
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Linda Lord
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Linda Lord, the Maine State Librarian,<\/a>\u00a0is a lifelong Mainer\u00a0who considers herself one of the luckiest professionals in the state.\u00a0\u00a0Lord told Stevoe that while\u00a0growing up her mother read to her, and she thought, “if I became a librarian, I could read all day for work.”\u00a0 She belongs to a 5th generation family that lives in Brooks, Maine.\u00a0 Lord went to Colby College and graduated with a degree in government.\u00a0 Lord became the first woman selectperson in the town of Brooks from 2001-2009.<\/p>\n

Lord\u2019s career in education began at the Mount View Junior\/Senior High School in Thorndike, Maine.\u00a0 She was a Social Studies teacher for ten years and then became the School Library Media Specialist for 15 years.<\/p>\n

\"Linda

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) sat down with Maine State Librarian Linda Lord (right) to discuss all things books.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1992, Lord joined the Department of Education (DOE) as the instructional technology coordinator.\u00a0 Lord\u2019s primary responsibilities at the DOE were to coordinate the DOE’s use of the Education Network of Maine.<\/p>\n

Lord joined the Maine State Library in 1999, first as Library Development Director, then the Deputy State Librarian. And in October 2008, she became the State Librarian.\u00a0 Lord described her passion for libraries\u00a0to Stevoe using her favorite quote by Rita Dove, \u201cThe Library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lord is the chairperson of the American Library Association E-rate Task Force and serves on the NetworkMaine Council, the Maine InfoNet Executive Board, the Connect ME Advisory Board and several other technology\/library-related committees.\u00a0 Recently she completed 2.5 years on the RSU 3 school board.<\/p>\n

Aside from her professional activities, Lord loves to play the piano and organ, travel as much as possible, and she loves to read, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine State Librarian Linda Lord recently joined Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe for an interview. They talked about the Dewey Decimal System and if they could have only one book on a deserted island what it would be. Lord also described the function of the Maine State Library, its two divisions and the role of new media. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}