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

The show team, with the help of cataloger Sofia Slutskaya, discusses the Library of Congress and tries to answer the question, "We don't have a National Library... or do we?" Guest: Sofia Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description at Emory University Libraries. First broadcast July 10, 2026. Playlist "As a cataloger, I need a more precise definition."

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 the analytic solution for complex, real-life problems. Guest: Dr. Michael Filler of the Georgia Tech School of Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering. First broadcast June 26 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81864 Playlist "You are expe...

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 existence of the Internet meant that libraries had to change or disappear. First broadcast June 12 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81848 Playlist "Today's episode is called 'The End of the Library.' No it's not, it's called Clickbait."

The show team has an unthemed conversation for this summer free cut. They discuss travelling to see art, Google Maps, having your assumptions tested, failure as growth, and if the phrase "get in the car, it's summer" has any significant cultural meaning. First broadcast June 5 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81828 Playlist "Yeah, it's not really working for me."

Georgia Tech faculty members talk about experimenting with virtual reality tools in a composition course, students experiencing multimodal Hamlet , and assessing how best to teach the "To be or not to be" monologue. Audio from a live recording during the Georgia Tech Library's  Media Arts Day , January 29 2026.  Guests: Dr. Kelly Williams, Marion L Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech; Dr....

Members of the Georgia Tech Library's Accessibility Community of Practice get into the weeds discussing alt text for mathematics in scholarly works. Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 22 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81587 Playlist "We're getting down in the weeds."

A Georgia Tech scholar from the College of Liberal Arts discusses the place of humanities in academia and how crisis is their natural habitat. Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. First broadcast May 8, 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81266 Playlist .  "The humanities, as a term, would not exis...

A recovering academic discusses Russian dissident literature and why samizdat is not a monolithic genre. Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of  The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union First broadcast May 1 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81260 Playlist "Yoga?"

For an Introduce Yourself show, a new but seasoned Georgia Tech librarian discusses his year of firsts in the profession. Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81255 Playlist "Right on."

Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University, discussing the  International Counterculture Archive .  First broadcast April 17 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81243 Playlist "You may be familiar with the Russian word samizdat ."

Interview with Audrey Russek, Head of the UC Davis Food and Drink Collection Broadcast April 10, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81239 Playlist   "You might not be looking at the cookbook for the recipes, you might be looking at it to understand community."

Guest: Heather Jeffcoat, Web and Discovery Management Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 3 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81151 Playlist "You ever miss the days when you could change a website just by typing in a few HTML lines?"

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."

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."

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." 

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."

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!"

First broadcast February 6 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80608 Playlist "I'd like to call it Lucky Thirteen!"

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?"

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."

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."

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."

First broadcast December 19 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79955 Playlist "We have a Christmas episode. And this is it."  

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."

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."