Shush-Free Zone - Where librarians get loud!
Jun 17, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
Season 1 of *The Shush-Free Zone* is officially wrapped and in this special bonus episode, host Dawn Brushammar looks back at the conversations, career journeys, and unexpected paths that shaped the…
I started in libraries, both academic and special library, corporate library, when I was first out of grad school.
Eventually, I found my way into knowledge management consulting and taxonomy, information architecture, semantic technologies, etc.
Speaking, helping organizations find out how to make their knowledge work better, and even talking to strangers like you from my home office here in southern Sweden on this podcast.
So looking back, I realized there's always been one question connecting everything.
How do we take what people know and make it useful? And that question follows me everywhere.
Jenny Poo from Hoboken, New Jersey, reminded us that libraries are not just about information access, but very strongly about community, democracy, fundamental human rights.
Laura Pike Seeley then in episode two showed us how information architecture and user experience connect and how organizing information is not only about systems, but about understanding people.
And she had some cool anecdotes from when she worked at Fossil where they had a library of purses and belts and all sorts of different accessories.
I always love hearing the stories about physical collections like that that aren't books.
Mairead McCune showed us what strategic knowledge leadership looks like inside organizations.
And Mairead's story reinforced something we kept returning to throughout the episodes.
That knowledge management is not about collecting information, but about helping organizations learn and the people within them learn as well.
who lives in Croatia, who shared a career journey that's crossed both industries and identities.
I started in libraries, both academic and special library, corporate library, when I was first out of grad school.
Eventually, I found my way into knowledge management consulting and taxonomy, information architecture, semantic technologies, etc.
Speaking, helping organizations find out how to make their knowledge work better, and even talking to strangers like you from my home office here in southern Sweden on this podcast.
So looking back, I realized there's always been one question connecting everything.
How do we take what people know and make it useful? And that question follows me everywhere.
Jenny Poo from Hoboken, New Jersey, reminded us that libraries are not just about information access, but very strongly about community, democracy, fundamental human rights.
Laura Pike Seeley then in episode two showed us how information architecture and user experience connect and how organizing information is not only about systems, but about understanding people.
And she had some cool anecdotes from when she worked at Fossil where they had a library of purses and belts and all sorts of different accessories.
I always love hearing the stories about physical collections like that that aren't books.
Mairead McCune showed us what strategic knowledge leadership looks like inside organizations.
And Mairead's story reinforced something we kept returning to throughout the episodes.
That knowledge management is not about collecting information, but about helping organizations learn and the people within them learn as well.
who lives in Croatia, who shared a career journey that's crossed both industries and identities.
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