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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

Episode 634: The Archives Reading Room

The GT Library Guidebook Part VII Guest: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation First broadcast April 4 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77515 Playlist here "I don't think you mean 'breaking into places' like I'm thinking."

Apr 4, 20251h 1m

Episode 633: There's an Archivist for That?!

Guest: Geoff Hetherington, Archivist and Records Analyst, Archdiocese of Atlanta. First broadcast March 28 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77514 Playlist here "I needed a job."

Mar 28, 202559 min

Uncut Interview with Leo Binkowski

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

Mar 23, 202548 min

Episode 632: This Machine Fills Metadata Fields

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. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77465 Playlist here "We promise we won't let the robots take control of the show."

Mar 21, 202559 min

Episode 631: retroTECH in Action

Guest: Leo Binkowski, software developer and programmer First broadcast March 14 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77457 Playlist here "But I'm still working!"

Mar 14, 20251h 0m

Episode 630: Defining Skylines

Guests: Kirk Henderson, Exhibits Manager, and Connor Lynch, Exhibits Associate, of the Georgia Tech LIbrary. First broadcast March 7 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77431 Playlist here "These folks live in the Exhibits Gallery."

Mar 7, 202559 min

Episode 629: Into the Professional Groove

Guest: Alex Brinson, Reference Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 28 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77426 Playlist here "Is that a rut?"

Feb 28, 20251h 0m

Episode 628: Citizen Science Communication

Guest: Dr. Megan Mericle, School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. First broadcast February 14 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77079 Playlist here "So if you see a gross bug in your backyard, why not take a picture of it?

Feb 14, 20251h 0m

Episode 627: The Past in the Future

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. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77063 Playlist here "Retro, meaning to them, made before 2010."

Feb 7, 202556 min

Episode 626: The Future in the Past

Discussing the article from 2001 entitled "Yahoo and the Abdication of Judgment". First broadcast January 31 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77044 Playlist here "Imagine if DARE had the same philosophy!"

Jan 31, 202558 min

Episode 625: Steering the EdTech Ship

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. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77037 Playlist here "I have to admit I found myself more overwhelmed than curious."

Jan 24, 20251h 0m

Episode 624: Improve the Situation

Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast January 17 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77029 Playlist here "What does 'fuss' mean in a professional context?"

Jan 17, 20251h 0m

Episode 623: LITSmas 2024 (Christmas Cooking)

First broadcast December 20 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76696 Playlist here. "Well then, Merry Archives."

Dec 21, 20241h 0m

Episode 622: Can Learning Be Affordable? And Can the Library Help?

Guest: Danielle Evans, Affordable Learning Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 13 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76626. Playlist here "I think every librarian is an affordable learning librarian."

Dec 13, 202457 min

Episode 621: The Fifth Floor But Also Everywhere

Guest: Martin Patrick, Head of Technical Services at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 6 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76623. Playlist here "... the most thoroughly represented – and perhaps most important, although don't tell the Dean I said so..."

Dec 6, 202459 min

Episode 620: Whither Google Scholar?

First broadcast November 22 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76527; Playlist here "A black box sinking below the wreckage."

Nov 22, 20241h 0m

Episode 619: Growing Art in the Georgia Tech Library

Guest: Dr. Bojana Ginn, 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast November 15 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76521; Playlist here "Art can be about absolutely anything. And it can be absolutely anything."

Nov 15, 202459 min

Episode 618: Academic Publishing on an AI Hamster Wheel

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. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76513; Playlist here "I meant to say I was feeling nauseated."

Nov 8, 20241h 0m

Ep 617Episode 617: In the Warehouse District

Guest: Nic Fann, Records Administrator at Georgia Tech. First broadcast November 1, 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76396; Playlist here "It's a big building with a lot of paper in it."

Nov 1, 202458 min

Episode 616: New Archivist, Digital Problems

Guest: Cliff Landis, Digital Curation Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast October 25 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76354 Playlist "Did you get any existential dread?"

Oct 25, 202456 min

Episode 615: The Uproar Class

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. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76318; Playlist here "Speak out."

Oct 11, 20241h 1m

Ep 614Episode 614: The Science Fiction Lounge

Guest: Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian and Science Fiction subject specialist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 4 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76294; Playlist here "I would be reading all this anyway."

Oct 4, 202458 min

Episode 613: The Human in the Loop

Guest: Arnetta Girardeau, Copyright and Licensing Librarian at UNC Charlotte. First broadcast September 20 2024. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76031, Playlist here "It seems technology progresses much faster than our archive access policies."

Sep 20, 20241h 1m

Episode 612: On Beyond Cataloging

Guest: Presley Dyer, Metadata Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 13 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75820; Playlist here "...while the work of a metadata librarian includes cataloging, it goes beyond that."

Sep 13, 20241h 0m

Episode 611: The GT Library Guidebook

Guest: Jason Wright, Director of Communications for the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 6 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75813; Playlist here "Can I do a radio voice?"

Sep 6, 202459 min

Episode 610: DIY Punk Strategies in the Library Classroom

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. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75767; Playlist here "What's the most punk rock thing you've ever done?"

Aug 23, 20241h 0m

Episode 605: You Can't Digitize Everything

PART 1 of THE STORIES ARCHIVES TELL Guest: Katie Gentilello, Digital Projects Coordinator at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast August 16 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75507; Playlist here "One might think you have an agenda..."

Aug 16, 20241h 0m

Episode 609: Three More Themes

First broadcast July 26 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75451; Playlist here "It's very hot in here."

Jul 26, 20241h 2m

Ep 608Episode 608: Equal Access to the Online Library

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..."

Jul 19, 202458 min

Episode 607: The Power of Good Description

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. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75444 Playlist here. "Archives are not neutral."

Jun 28, 20241h 1m

Episode 606: Media Literacy at the Carter Center

Part 4 of MAJOR AND MINOR THREATS series Guest: Sarah Morris, Media Literacy Program Consultant at the Carter Center. First broadcast June 21 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75406; Playlist here "Media literacy is plenty dramatic."

Jun 21, 202458 min

Ep 604Episode 604: Let's Get Medieval

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. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75387; Playlist here "The Middle Ages rocked the cradle of knowledge..."

May 31, 20241h 1m

Episode 603: The Library Attrition Tracker

First broadcast May 24 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75357; Playlist here "Turn the mics off for a second. All of them."

May 24, 20241h 0m