Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
Charlie Bennett
Show overview
Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show has been publishing since 2013, and across the 13 years since has built a catalogue of 436 episodes. That works out to roughly 440 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 59 min and 1h 1m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 16 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2019, with 52 episodes published. Published by Charlie Bennett.
From the publisher
Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.
Latest Episodes
View all 436 episodesEpisode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat
Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith
Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts
Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat
Episode 679: There's an Archivist for That?! Part IV: Food and Drink Archives
Episode 678: The Front Door of the Library
Guest: Heather Jeffcoat, Web and Discovery Management Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 3 2026. Playlist "You ever miss the days when you could change a website just by typing in a few HTML lines?"
Episode 677: Design is a Lifestyle
Guest: Wayne Li, James L. Oliver Professor of the Practice in the Colleges of Design and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. First broadcast March 20, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80843 Playlist "It's always a tricky question to answer without context."
Ep 676Episode 676: This Is Archaeology
Guest: Dr. Allison Mickel, H. Bruce McEver Chair in Archaeological Science and Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. First broadcast March 13 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80732 Playlist "It's not all excavation."
Episode 675: Graduate Students: There's a Place for Us (in the Library)
First broadcast March 6 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80730 Playlist "They need the resources, they need the services, they need the space."
Episode 674: Centennial Summer
Guests: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, Kirk Henderson, Exhibitions Manager, and Connor Lynch, Exhibits Associate at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 20 2026. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80711 Playlist "I don't need encouragment or assistance to reminisce about the 90s."
Ep 673Episode 673: The Nuclear Historian
Guest: Dr. Robert "Bo" Jacobs, historian of nuclear technologies. First broadcast February 13 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80652 Playlist "Yes, optimism!"
Episode 672: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
First broadcast February 6 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80608 Playlist "I'd like to call it Lucky Thirteen!"
Episode 671: Being an Open Science Champion
Guest: Dr Lynn Kamerlin, GT professor in the school of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and head of the Kamerlin Lab. First broadcast January 30 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80597 Playlist "I called you a champion. That's apt, right?"
Episode 670: Digging The Details
Guest: Vanesa Evers, Institutional Repository Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast January 23 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80191 Playlist "Right on."
Episode 669: Scholarship in Place
Guests: Dr. Yanni Loukissas, associate professor of Digital Media in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and Dr. Sylvia Janicki, Digital Media 2025 First broadcast January 16 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80044 Playlist "I'm trying to not get the willies."
Episode 668: Fresh Start
First broadcast January 9 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80043 Playlist "The world has been reminded of just how unpredictable everything is."
Ep 667Christmas Specials: LITSmas2025
First broadcast December 19 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79955 Playlist "We have a Christmas episode. And this is it."
Ep 666Episode 666: The Number of the Beast: Setting the Record Straight (To Hell)
Guest: Dr Gabrielle Thomas, Professor of Early Christianity and Anglican Studies at Emory University First broadcast December 12 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79941 Playlist "Disabuse! Yeah, that was the word I was going for."
Ep 665Episode 665: Interacting With Media In The Zone
Guest: Jason Wright, Communications Director for the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 5 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79932 Playlist "I may have made a mistake here."
ENCORE Episode 40: Cornucopia
Rerun from November 26th, 2010.