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

Karen Manning of the Georgia Tech Library talks about her experiences being president of the Georgia Library Association (GLA). First broadcast Nov 18, 2022 Playlist, transcript

Guests: Jolene Cole and Holly Croft of Georgia College and State University First broadcast November 11 2022. Playlist here, Transcript here "Information studies are for everyone, not just librarians and archivists."

'Ilaheva Tua'one and Seth Porter of the Univ of Colorado, Colorado Springs library talk about their project to bring storytelling to libraries as one way to de-colonize library collections. Transcript, Playlist First broadcast Nov 4, 2022

Guest: Jenny Townes of Emory Libraries. First broadcast October 28 2022. Playlist, Transcript "Let's spin the wheel!"

Guest Martin Patrick, new Systems Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. Broadcast Oct 21, 2022 Playlist, Transcript

Guest: Dillon Henry, Digital Accessioning Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 7 2022. Transcript, Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/10/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-october-7-2022-meet-the-archivist-and-the-fred-episode-535/ "R.I.P. Library of Alexandria."

Guests: Paige Bowers and David Montague First broadcast September 30 2022. Transcript, Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-september-30-2022-overnight-code-episode-534/ The authors of Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering talk about writing the book, Raye Montague, and citizen archiving.

Guest Katherine Dunn of MIT Libraries discusses the 2022 OSTP memo on public access. Broadcast Sep 23, 2022. Playlist, Transcript

Guest Alex McGee discusses her new position as University Archivist at Georgia Tech. First broadcast Sept 16 2022. Playlist here, transcript here

Guest: Snowden Becker, Archives and Collections Consultant First broadcast September 9 2022 -- podcast contains unbroadcast material. Transcript here; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-september-9-2022-punctum-episode-531/ Snowden Becker talks with the LITS crew about how objects take on new properties when they are processed into collections.

Guest Cicely Lewis, librarian at Meadow Creek High School talks about keeping diverse school library collections and what it actually means to be "woke". Broadcast Sept 2, 2022 Transcript here. Playlist at https/www.wrek.org/?p=38006

Guest: Professor Michael Bibler of LSU. First broadcast August 26 2022. Transcript here. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-september-2-2022-love-needs-to-be-louder-episode-530/ Featuring an interview with one of the contributors to the book The Tacky South.

Guest: Evan Mayo-Wilson, of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses his research into whether peer review can help to mitigate author spin in academic publications. First broadcast August 19, 2022 Transcript here Playlist at: https/www.wrek.org/?p=37980

Guests: Amber Moore, Autumn Wilson, Cathy Miller, and Kendall Barksdale, representatives of the team working to process and digitize the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Collection at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library. First broadcast August 12 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-august-12-2022-the-joseph-and-evelyn-gibson-lowery-collection-episode-527/ Transcript available

Guest Ann Kardos, Librarian at UMass-Amherst discusses her creative project "Unseen Labor." First broadcast July 29, 2022 Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-29-2022-unseen-labor-episode-526/ Transcript available.

First broadcast July 22 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-22-2022-steal-this-show-episode-525/(opens in a new tab) The LITS crew is joined by guest host Alison Reynolds to talk rare books and theft. Transcript available.

Guest: Anu Moorthy of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast July 15 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-15-2022-tickets-and-tunnels-episode-524/(opens in a new tab) Anu Moorthy, the new Electronic Resources Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library, discusses the ups and downs of her job. Transcript available.

Guest: Mitsuko Ito of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech First broadcast July 8 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-8-2022-a-material-method-for-mental-health-episode-523/ A discussion of tapping, a mental-calming technique. Transcript available.

Guest: Jamila Hastick, Electronic Services Librarian, Library of Parliament It's Canada Day! Guest Jamila Hastick talks about what it's like to work as a librarian in the Canadian Library of Parliament/Bibliothèque du Parlement. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-1-2022-the-library-of-parliament-happy-canada-day-episode-522/(opens in a new tab) Transcript available.

Guests: Kathy Makos (Smithsonian, retired) and Jenny Houlroyd (Georgia Tech) What is an industrial hygienist? We speak to two industrial hygienists to find out how their profession can make libraries, archives, and other workplaces safer. And spoiler alert, industrial hygiene doesn't have anything to do with teeth. Originally broadcast June 24, 2022. Transcript available.

First broadcast June 10 2022. The show crew discusses summer reading -- their own, other's, and Stephen King's.

Guests: Jason Aukerman and Carrie Cooper of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. First broadcast May 13 2022. Playlist at The director and assistant director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies talk about the ins and outs of running a small research center.

Guests: Dr Cassidy Sugimoto, Chair of Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and Dr Thema Monroe-White, professor of Data Analytics at Berry College Dr Sugimoto and Dr Monroe-White share their research into how scientific literature citation numbers are unequal among different racial and gender categories. Transcript at: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66373 Playlist at:https://www.wrek.org/2022/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-apr-22-2022-who-are-you-citing-episode-518/

Guest: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe of the University of Illinois Library and I-School First broadcast Apr 15, 2022 Lisa explains syndication of scholarly content, and what it might mean for academic libraries. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-apr-15-2022-scholarly-syndication-episode-517/

Guest: Deanna Sirlin First broadcast April 8 2022. Transcript; Playlist TK "It's about color more than abstraction."

Guests: Professor Todd Michney and Dr. Brad Rittenhouse of Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 1 2022. Transcript; Playlist TK "I hope you two librarians handled yourselves okay in a conversation about citizen archiving."

Guest: Seti Keshmiripour of University of North Texas Libraries. First broadcast March 18 2022. Transcript; Playlist TK "We could pay them more."

Guest: Dr. Eric Lewis of Georgia Tech and tipsyturvy Ulysses First broadcast March 4 2022. Transcript; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=37333 "Ulysses, instead of being a novel, is kind of multiple novels, successively..."

image credit: "Polar Bear on Thin Ice" by Christoper Michel, CC-BY, via flickr.com Guest: Philip Burrus, Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group First broadcast Feb 18, 2022. Transcript; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/2022/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-feb-18-2022-the-server-rule-and-polar-bears-on-thin-ice-episode-512/ "Not a get-out-of-jail-free card."

Guest: Dr. Aisha Johnson of the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast February 11, 2022 Transcript; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-feb-11-2022-new-librarian-new-challenge-episode-511/ "I have to get out of the house."

Guest: Chad Hutchens, Head of Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries. First broadcast September 15 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-23rd-fossils-in-glorious-3d-episode-357/ "...unfettered by a carbonaceous film."

"I have been confused with a collector." Guest: Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records. First broadcast September 5 2014. Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=10191

"Punk rock!" First broadcast September 1 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-1st-dischord-records-is-history-episode-356/

First broadcast January 14 2022. Transcript; Playlist https://www.wrek.org/2022/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-january-14-2022-2022-the-electric-boogaloo-episode-510/ "...unwanted, unnecessary sequel..."

Guests: Seth Porter and Karen Viars of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast August 25 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-25th-information-literacy-for-the-win-episode-355/ "Information literacy is a life skill."

Guest: Dr. Mike Filler of Georgia Tech. First broadcast July 28 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-28th-more-publishing-more-problems-episode-352/ "Let's start with the good news first."

First broadcast December 24 2021. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36848 "If pop culture says it, it must be true."

Guest: Matt Spitzer of The Center for Open Science. First broadcast July 21 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-21st-trust-but-verify-episode-351/ "Repetition is reassuring because it implies that there is a recognizable something."

Guests: Dr. Lisa Yaszek of the School of Literature, Media, and Culture at Georgia Tech, Grace Agnew of Rutgers University Libraries, and Catherine Manci of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 10 2021. Transcript; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36776 "Pew pew pew!"

Guest: Mack Freeman, Head of Public Services at the Georgia Tech Library Transcript at: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/65528; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=36718 "There is still growth that happens [in the library], and that experience is worthwhile. We get to be a part of that, and that's really special."

Guests: The Doshi & Reddy Butalla crew, JJ O'Brien, Jonathan Walker, and April Rogers First broadcast November 25 2011. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36660 "Research is an essential part of any kind of task."

Guest: John Lindaman of the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met. First broadcast November 19 2021. Transcript at: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/65527; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36658 "It's not that much of a passion, actually."

Guest: Bodó Balázs, Associate Professor at University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law First broadcast on Nov 12, 2021 Transcript; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=36605 "An illegal download is not a lost sale."

First broadcast on November 5 2021. Transcript: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/65421; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36540 "I'm just not feeling it."

Guests: Itza Carbajal (UT Austin School of Information), Sine Hwang Jensen (UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library), Irina Rogova (U Richmond library) & Jessea Young (Loyola Marymount U library). First broadcast July 14 2017 Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-14th-disrupting-mainstream-history-episode-350/ "Librarianship and archivy should be radical."

Guest: Kate Dickson, UNCC Library Broadcast October 22, 2021. Transcript at http://hdl.handle.net/1853/65393 Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36447 "We still don't know how this is going to play out, and what the rules are going to be." Image credit: David Wagner, CC-0 (public domain)

First broadcast June 23 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-23rd-the-human-library-episode-348/ "Fred said it was trademarked."

Guest: Gideon Marcus of Galactic Journey. First broadcast October 8 2021 and 1966. Transcript; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36323 "Are you a traveler of both time and space?"

Guest: Laura Burtle, Associate Dean for Scholarly Communications and Digital Library Services at GSU First broadcast June 16 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-16th-129864880-episode-347/ "I realized libraries need lawyers."

Guests: Coston Dickenson and Andres, graduate students in the Georgia Tech College of Design. First broadcast June 09 2017 Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-9th-the-freedome-library-episode-346/