Library training talk with blunt collegiality.
T is For Training gathers library and learning professionals for candid, often funny conversations about how people actually learn at work. The show moves from mentoring programs and online workshops to AI anxiety, community norms, and the small design choices that make training useful.
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T is For Training is a library training roundtable built around experienced practitioners talking through the real work of helping people learn. The format is loose and live-feeling. Maurice Coleman usually opens with introductions, site notes, episode numbers, and enough joking detours to make the room feel inhabited before the topic fully arrives. From there, the conversation follows library work into mentoring, facilitation, presentation design, information literacy, digital platforms, AI, and professional community. The show is not a polished lecture series. It is closer to a recurring peer conversation where working trainers test ideas against memory, practice, and each other. Episodes linger on how learning actually happens: through preparation, emotional growth, repeated practice, good prompts, community trust, and the willingness to meet people where they are. A discussion of virtual mentorship becomes a history of online professional support before COVID. A question about AI turns into a sharper concern about whether people are learning evaluation methods or simply reacting to fear. A conversation about lurking on social platforms becomes an argument for listening first, learning the room, and then contributing. The show also keeps returning to wayfinding rather than gatekeeping, especially in libraries and professional spaces where newcomers need orientation more than judgment. Its humor is casual and sometimes abrasive, but the function is collegial rather than cruel. The recurring voices bring distinct professional angles: librarianship, consulting, teaching, writing, digital humanities, learning design, and technology. That mix gives the show range. It can talk about a workshop slide layout, a mentoring chapter, a museum armor collection, or an old IBM story without treating any of them as off-topic. The through-line is always learning culture. T is For Training suits listeners who like professional development with side roads, inside jokes, and real disagreement. It rewards patience. Beneath the banter is a durable argument that good training depends on care, context, community, and the humility to keep adapting.
Made for: For librarians, trainers, presenters, consultants, educators, and workplace learning people who prefer candid peer conversation over packaged professional-development scripts. It especially suits listeners interested in libraries, facilitation, mentoring, AI in learning, and community norms.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its lived-in panel dynamic: practical training craft emerges through banter, memory, disagreement, and long-running trust. It treats learning as social infrastructure, not just content delivery.
T is for Training is a podcast dedicated to improvement through learning. Also, it is about training, presenting, learning, teaching, understanding and compassion. Started in 2008 this program seeks to expand the conversation and have a good time while doing it. ] So, grab a beverage of your choice and join us either live or via podcast. Keep in touch via the site http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Maurice Coleman and his panel connect training practice, learning communities, and AI literacy through candid, experience-rich conversation.
T is For Training turns professional learning into a lively group argument, with Maurice Coleman steering a recurring panel of librarians, trainers, consultants, teachers, and writers.
A training video exists; Maurice Coleman wants you to ask how anyone finds their way to it.
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