Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show

Guest: Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper First broadcast June 20 2025. Playlist TK "You say quite casually that this is the computer age."

First broadcast June 13, 2025. Playlist here "It was quite a ride, and we're getting back on it."

First broadcast June 6 2025. Playlist here "Marlee and I are returning to a topic that we discussed twice on the air, and probably a ton off-air."

Guest: Dr. Drew Whitelegg, Globe Academy First broadcast May 30 2025. Playlist here "I think the United States is the only English-speaking country that doesn't use the phrase 'cabin crew.'"  

First broadcast May 23 2025. Playlist here "Was that a content disclaimer?"

Guest: Sarah Morris, Assistant Director of Academic Engagement at the University of Georgia Libraries First broadcast May 16 2025. Playlist here "AI has become the elephant in the room."

First broadcast May 9 2025. Playlist here "Libraries have always felt a little like they need to grow and change the services they offer."

Guests Diann Lindsay and Mariah McCauley of the Georgia Tech Library Public Services department, discussing what goes on at the library's information desk.  First broadcast 5/2/2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77567  See the Playlist. "Welcome to the research library of the 21st Century. Your first stop will probably be the INFODesk."   

Guest: Dr. Christina Shivers, School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 25 2025. Playlist here "This is like a split single for Lost in the Stacks."

Guest: Eric Harbeson of Authors Alliance First broadcast April 18 2025. Playlist here Read our guest's white paper, The Legal Basis For U.S. Federal Public Access Mandates "Open access can still happen whether there's a mandate or not."

The GT Library Guidebook Part VII Guest: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation First broadcast April 4 2025. Playlist here "I don't think you mean 'breaking into places' like I'm thinking."

Guest: Geoff Hetherington, Archivist and Records Analyst, Archdiocese of Atlanta. First broadcast March 28 2025. Playlist here "I needed a job."

Guest: Leo Binkowski, software developer and programmer. Full interview recording for episode 631.

Guests: Presley Dyer, Metadata Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library; Wilhelmina Randtke, Head of Libraries Systems and Technologies at Georgia Southern University; and Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services for Rutgers University Libraries.    First broadcast March 21 2025. Playlist here "We promise we won't let the robots take control of the show."  

Guest: Leo Binkowski, software developer and programmer First broadcast March 14 2025. Playlist here "But I'm still working!"

Guests: Kirk Henderson, Exhibits Manager, and Connor Lynch, Exhibits Associate, of the Georgia Tech LIbrary. First broadcast March 7 2025 Playlist here "These folks live in the Exhibits Gallery."

Guest: Alex Brinson, Reference Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 28 2025. Playlist here "Is that a rut?"

Guest: Dr. Megan Mericle, School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. First broadcast February 14 2025. Playlist here "So if you see a gross bug in your backyard, why not take a picture of it?

Guests: Dr. Dillon Henry, Digital Accessioning Archivist, and Cliff Landis, Digital Curation Archivist, Archives and Special Collections department of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 7 2025. Playlist here "Retro, meaning to them, made before 2010."

First broadcast January 31 2025. Playlist here "Imagine if DARE had the same philosophy!"

Guest: Warren Goetzel, Director of Academic Technology and Engagement for Georgia Tech's Office of Information Technology & Director of External and Faculty Engagement with the Center for 21st Century Universities. First broadcast January 24 2025. Playlist here "I have to admit I found myself more overwhelmed than curious."

Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast January 17 2025. Playlist here "What does 'fuss' mean in a professional context?"

First broadcast December 20 2024. Playlist here. "Well then, Merry Archives."

Guest: Danielle Evans, Affordable Learning Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 13 2024. Playlist here "I think every librarian is an affordable learning librarian."

Guest: Martin Patrick, Head of Technical Services at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 6 2024. Playlist here "... the most thoroughly represented – and perhaps most important, although don't tell the Dean I said so..."

First broadcast November 22 2024. Playlist here "A black box sinking below the wreckage."

  Guest: Dr. Bojana Ginn, 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast November 15 2024. Playlist here "Art can be about absolutely anything. And it can be absolutely anything."

Guest: Lai Ma, assistant professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, discussing how AI will affect the scholarly publishing ecosystem, as described in her recent article: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/287.  First broadcast November 8 2024. Playlist here "I meant to say I was feeling nauseated."

Guest: Nic Fann, Records Administrator at Georgia Tech. First broadcast November 1, 2024. Playlist here "It's a big building with a lot of paper in it."

Guest: Cliff Landis, Digital Curation Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast October 25 2024. Playlist "Did you get any existential dread?"

Guests: Afra Bolefski, Inclusive User Experience Strategist at the University of Toronto; Mai Lu, Head of Public Services & Outreach at University of Toronto Mississauga, and Xiying Mi, Head of Resource Description at University of Wisconsin-Madison First broadcast October 11 2024. Playlist here "Speak out." 

Guest: Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian and Science Fiction subject specialist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 4 2024. Playlist here "I would be reading all this anyway."

Guest: Arnetta Girardeau, Copyright and Licensing Librarian at UNC Charlotte. First broadcast September 20 2024. Playlist here "It seems technology progresses much faster than our archive access policies."   

Guest: Presley Dyer, Metadata Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 13 2024. Playlist here "...while the work of a metadata librarian includes cataloging, it goes beyond that."

Guest: Jason Wright, Director of Communications for the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 6 2024. Playlist here "Can I do a radio voice?"

Photo credit: Joe Lacey (@joexlacey) Guests: Kevin Adams, Information Literacy Librarian at Herrick Memorial Library, Alfred University and Edward Gloor, Teaching & Learning Librarian at University of Houston Libraries. First broadcast August 23 2024. Playlist here "What's the most punk rock thing you've ever done?"

PART 1 of THE STORIES ARCHIVES TELL Guest: Katie Gentilello, Digital Projects Coordinator at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast August 16 2024. Playlist here "One might think you have an agenda..."

First broadcast July 26 2024. Playlist here "It's very hot in here."

PART 1 of ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT series Guests: Dawn Evans, Accessibility Specialist and Valerie Morrison, E-Text Manager, GT's Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) First broadcast July 19 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75448; Playlist  here "If you could define accessibility in less than ten words..."

PART 2 of THE STORIES THAT ARCHIVES TELL series Guest: Alex Brinson, ACRL Diversity Resident at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast on June 28 2024. Playlist here. "Archives are not neutral."

Part 4 of MAJOR AND MINOR THREATS series Guest: Sarah Morris, Media Literacy Program Consultant at the Carter Center. First broadcast June 21 2024. Playlist here "Media literacy is plenty dramatic."

Image from British Library, Harley 4335. Boethius (anonymous French translation), Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book 1) France, Central (Bourges); 1477, fol 1. Guest: Dr. Julia Schneider of University of Notre Dame Library. First broadcast May 31 2024. Playlist here "The Middle Ages rocked the cradle of knowledge..."    

First broadcast May 24 2024. Playlist here "Turn the mics off for a second. All of them."

Guest: Chris Tanguay, Processing Archivist at MIT Libraries. First broadcast May 17 2024. Playlist here "Don't bring little black clouds to work."

Guest: Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian for the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast May 10 2024. Playlist here "We'll fix it during the first music set."

Guest: Karen Manning, Engagement and Inclusion Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 26 2024. Playlist here "She's seen some stuff with us."

Guest: Kim Powell, Research Impact Informationist, and Jennifer Townes, Open Access Librarian, at Emory University Libraries. First broadcast April 19 2024. Playlist here "The question is kind of 'what didn't happen?'"

Image: By Frankie Fouganthin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24499305 Guests: Professor Cameron Winter of the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program and Hannah Eppling of Little Characters Theater Company and Theater Delta.  First broadcast April 12 2024. Playlist here "It's the vulnerability."

Guest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group in Atlanta. First broadcast March 29 2024. Playlist here. "Its purpose was to identify The Nuge."    

Guest: Victoria Lemos of Archive Atlanta. First broadcast on March 15 2024. Playlist here. "As long as they do proper research!" 

Guest: Thera Webb of MIT Libraries First broadcast on March 8 2024. Playlist here "That was a nuclear bomb situation."