Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
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Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.
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442 episodes
Episode 688: Discarding the Analytic Solution
A Georgia Tech faculty member describes how using AI to write MATLAB code improved a course on chemical reactor design and the benefits of discarding...
Episode 687: Clickbait
The show team discusses the 2013 blog post "The End of the Library" by M.G. Siegler, clickbait that argued that the economics of ebooks and the existe...
Episode 686: Get In The Car, It's Summer
The show team has an unthemed conversation for this summer free cut. They discuss travelling to see art, Google Maps, having your assumptions tested,...
Episode 685: Multimodal Hamlet
Georgia Tech faculty members talk about experimenting with virtual reality tools in a composition course, students experiencing multimodal Hamlet, and...
Episode 684: Alt Text In Mathematics
Members of the Georgia Tech Library's Accessibility Community of Practice get into the weeds discussing alt text for mathematics in scholarly works.
Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat
A Georgia Tech scholar from the College of Liberal Arts discusses the place of humanities in academia and how crisis is their natural habitat.
G...
Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith
A recovering academic discusses Russian dissident literature and why samizdat is not a monolithic genre.
Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, aut...
Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts
For an Introduce Yourself show, a new but seasoned Georgia Tech librarian discusses his year of firsts in the profession.
Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Re...
Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat
Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University, discussing the Internation...
Episode 679: There's an Archivist for That?! Part IV: Food and Drink Archives
Interview with Audrey Russek, Head of the UC Davis Food and Drink Collection
Broadcast April 10, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853...
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. Transcript at https:/...
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 b...
Episode 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.
Episode 675: 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, t...
Episode 674: Centennial Summer
Guests: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, Kirk Henderson, Exhibitions Manager, and Connor Lynch, E...
Episode 673: The Nuclear Historian
Guest: Dr. Robert "Bo" Jacobs, historian of nuclear technologies.
First broadcast February 13 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80...
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...
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.h...
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 Jan...
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 unpredi...
Christmas 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."...
Episode 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. Transcrip...
Episode 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.ne...
Episode 664: Gratitude, Not Attitude
First broadcast November 21 2025. Transcript.
Playlist
"Maybe a little bit of attitude."
Episode 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
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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.han...
Episode 661: Bad Moon Rising
Guest: Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist & Special Collections Curator, Georgia Tech Archives
First broacast on Octob...
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...
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/1853/79...
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...
Episode 657: Fooling Ourselves
First broadcast September 26 2025. LITS Panel discuss their experiences with imposter syndrome.
Playlist here. Transcript at: https://hdl.handl...
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
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."
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.
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...
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 ther...
Episode 651: Train the Trainers
First broadcast August 15, 2025.
Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78772
Playlist here
"Educate the educators."
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/...