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

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Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat

May 8, 20261h 0m

Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith

May 1, 20261h 1m

Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts

Apr 24, 202657 min

Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat

Apr 17, 20261h 2m

Episode 679: There's an Archivist for That?! Part IV: Food and Drink Archives

Apr 10, 20261h 0m

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?"

Apr 3, 20261h 2m

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."

Mar 20, 202659 min

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."

Mar 13, 202659 min

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."

Mar 6, 202657 min

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."

Feb 20, 202656 min

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!"

Feb 13, 20261h 2m

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!"

Feb 6, 202658 min

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?"

Jan 30, 202656 min

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."

Jan 23, 20261h 0m

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."

Jan 16, 202659 min

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."

Jan 9, 20261h 1m

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."

Dec 19, 20251h 1m

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."

Dec 12, 20251h 2m

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."

Dec 5, 20251h 1m

ENCORE Episode 40: Cornucopia

Rerun from November 26th, 2010.

Nov 28, 202559 min

Episode 664: Gratitude, Not Attitude

First broadcast November 21 2025. Transcript. Playlist "Maybe a little bit of attitude."

Nov 21, 202558 min

Ep 663Episode 663: Evidence-based and Far Out

Guest: Dr. Mark S. Burton, clinical psychologist First broadcast November 14 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79920 Playlist "I think I sort of fell into psychedelics."

Nov 14, 20251h 0m

Episode 662: The Gadgets in the Library (The GT Library Guidebook, Part XI)

Guest: Cierra Cooper, Public Services Associate Lead at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast November 7 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79918 Playlist "You have to replace that."

Nov 7, 20251h 1m

Episode 661: Bad Moon Rising

Guest: Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist & Special Collections Curator, Georgia Tech Archives First broacast on October 31 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79910 Playlist "How do we justify these purchases at an academic library?"

Oct 31, 202558 min

Episode 660: Roles and Identities

Guest: Dr. Manda Sexton, Interim Director of Resource Strategy and Management at Kennesaw State University Libraries First broadcast on October 24 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79881 Playlist "Do you like people, and do people like you?"

Oct 24, 202558 min

Episode 659: The AI (Actual, In-person) Lawyer

Guest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group First broadcast October 10 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79880 Playlist "Normally, I hope his advice for us is to drive at TOP SPEED."

Oct 10, 20251h 0m

Episode 658: Down in the Basement

Guest: Alex Brinson, Reference Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 3 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79348 Playlist here "Wait, you said 'even colder' in the vault?"

Oct 3, 202556 min

Episode 657: Fooling Ourselves

First broadcast September 26 2025. LITS Panel discuss their experiences with imposter syndrome. Playlist here. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79331 "Uh oh."

Sep 26, 202559 min

Episode 656: There's an Archivist for That!? Part III

Guest: Brittan Dunham, film/video archivist and filmmaker First broadcast September 19 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78840 Playlist here "You know what to do when you hear the secret word, right?"

Sep 19, 20251h 0m

Episode 655: My First Memory (of Libraries and Archives)

First broadcast September 12 2025. Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78830 "We are going to get nostalgic today."

Sep 12, 202559 min

Episode 654: The Scholars Event Theater

Guests: Catherine Manci, Public Programming and Community Engagement Librarian, and Felicia Kornegay, Events Manager, from the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 5 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78792 Playlist here "You can see their reactions in real-time."

Sep 5, 20251h 1m

Episode 653: The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship

Guests: Dr Nicole Cooke (University of South Carolina) and Dr Aisha Johnson (GT Library) First broadcast August 29 2025. Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78787 "Their work was challenged by both official segregationist policies, and unofficial but pervasive bias and discrimination." Find out more about the bookThe Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be Powerful

Aug 29, 20251h 0m

Episode 652: Belonging in the Inclusive Library

First broadcast Aug 22, 2025. Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78782 "It's also important to remember that there is a diversity of thought."

Aug 22, 202559 min

Episode 651: Train the Trainers

First broadcast August 15, 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78772 Playlist here "Educate the educators."

Aug 15, 20251h 1m

Episode 650: How To Write a Book About Notebooks

Guest: Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper First broadcast August 8 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78513 Playlist here "So I have to go by what Leonardo said..."

Aug 8, 202559 min

Episode 649: Global Equitable Open Access

Guest: Melissa Hagemann, Director of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), discussing her paper Lessons for the Global Transition to Global Equitable Open Access to Research. First broadcast August 1 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78436 Playlist here "And that is what we call an inequity."

Aug 1, 202559 min

Episode 648: There's An Archivist For That?! Part II

Guest: Allison Schein, Director, Archives and Rights Management at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution First broadcast July 25 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78330 Playlist here "I love audio, and I want to work in Archives!"

Jul 25, 20251h 1m

Episode 647: You Can Take It With You

Guests: Danielle Evans, Affordable Learning Librarian; Justin Ellis, Digital Learning & Instruction Librarian; Karen Manning, Student Experience Librarian; and Raven Davis, Research Scientist in Data Analytics, all from the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast July 18 2025. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78035 Playlist here "We're here to bust the myth."

Jul 18, 202558 min

Ep 646Episode 646: Georgia Heritage Responders

Guests: Tina Seetoo, Preservation Manager at the Delta Flight Museum and Chair of Georgia Heritage Responders, and Erica Hague, Collections Manager at the Atlanta History Center and Communications Manager for Georgia Heritage Responders. First broadcast July 11 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78025 Playlist here "I'm looking forward to learning all about this organization that responds to Georgia's heritage."

Jul 11, 20251h 0m

Episode 645: The IMLS: Grappling with Uncertainty in the Time of DOGE

Guests: Dennis Nangle and Ashley Sands of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) First broadcast June 27 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78008 Playlist here "Our listeners probably know about DOGE."

Jun 27, 20251h 2m

Episode 644: The Notebook Age

Guest: Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper First broadcast June 20 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77968 Playlist here "You say quite casually that this is the computer age."

Jun 20, 202559 min

Episode 643: More Bad Luck and Trouble

First broadcast June 13, 2025. Playlist here, transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77967 "It was quite a ride, and we're getting back on it."

Jun 13, 20251h 0m

Ep 642Episode 642: Slow Train Comin' Up Around The Bend

First broadcast June 6 2025. Playlist here; transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77966 "Marlee and I are returning to a topic that we discussed twice on the air, and probably a ton off-air."

Jun 6, 202558 min

Ep 641Episode 641: How To Write A Book About Cabin Crews

Guest: Dr. Drew Whitelegg, Globe Academy First broadcast May 30 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77965 Playlist here "I think the United States is the only English-speaking country that doesn't use the phrase 'cabin crew.'"

May 30, 20251h 0m

Episode 640: Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk

First broadcast May 23 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77624 Playlist here "Was that a content disclaimer?"

May 23, 202557 min

Episode 639: Putting the A and the I in Information Literacy.

Guest: Sarah Morris, Assistant Director of Academic Engagement at the University of Georgia Libraries First broadcast May 16 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77588 Playlist here "AI has become the elephant in the room."

May 16, 202558 min

Episode 638: Remake Remodel

First broadcast May 9 2025. Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77573 "Libraries have always felt a little like they need to grow and change the services they offer."

May 9, 202559 min

Episode 637: The INFODesk

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."

May 2, 202557 min

Episode 636: How To Train Your Algorithm

Guest: Dr. Christina Shivers, School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 25 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77549 Playlist here "This is like a split single for Lost in the Stacks."

Apr 25, 20251h 2m

Episode 635: The Legality of Open Access Mandates

Guest: Eric Harbeson of Authors Alliance First broadcast April 18 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77544 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."

Apr 18, 202559 min