Charlie Bennett

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

Society EN ↓ 454 episodes

Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.

Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: library.gatech.edu

Author

Charlie Bennett

Category

Society

Podcast website

library.gatech.edu

Latest episode

Oct 9, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 479: 2021 08.01.2021

First broadcast January 8 2021. Transcript , Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=35345 "What happened? 2020, that's what happened."  

ENCORE Episode 452: In the Year 2020 01.01.2021

First broadcast January 3 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-3rd-in-the-year-2020-episode-452/ "I am an optimist."

LITSmas 2020 25.12.2020

First broadcast December 25 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=35332

ENCORE Episode 451: LITSmas 2019, LITS Go To The Movies 18.12.2020

First broadcast December 20 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32869 "If you think you've discovered something, please don't steal it."

ENCORE of LITSMAS 2018 11.12.2020

Our fourth holiday special (back in 2018) was different than we expected but still full of LITSmas cheer!

Episode 477: Controlled Digital Lending 04.12.2020

First broadcast December 4 2020. Transcript , Playlist "Because free information is rarely free of obligation."  

ENCORE Episode 209: "Expunge Your Digital History" 27.11.2020

Part 3 of SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BRO Guest: Jean-François Blanchette of UCLA. First broadcast May 23 2014. Playlist at http://bit.ly/1lIWcef "I didn't post that stuff, someone else did!"

Episode 476: Human-Centered Research 20.11.2020

image: Cover of Code for America's Qualitative Research Practice Guide Guests: Aditi Joshi, Code for America Senior Qualitative Researcher, and Rebecca Blakiston, User Experience Strategist and Associate Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries Transcript ; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=35248 First broadcast Nov 20, 2020 "It's really important to recognize the intense emotions that...

Episode 475: Breaking Up With Print Periodicals 13.11.2020

Guest: Stuart Gaetjens, Coordinator of Technical Services at the Volpe Library, Tennessee Tech University Transcript ; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=35217 First broadcast Nov 13, 2020 "Results were dramatic, and even worse than expected."

ENCORE Episode 208: "What Are You Reading?" 06.11.2020

Part 2 of SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BRO Guests: Karen Glover & Stella Richardson of the Georgia Tech Library and Denita Hampton of the Georgia State University Library. First broadcast on May 16 2014. Playlist at  http://bit.ly/QQVpPT "Who wants the information you have about patrons?"

Episode 474: Metadata of the Dead II: FrankenData 30.10.2020

Guest: Robin Fay (georgiawebgurl) First broadcast October 30 2020. Transcript ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=35157 "Dark."

ENCORE Episode 207: The NSA Show 23.10.2020

Part 1 of SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BRO Guest: Dr. Aaron Santesso of Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. First broadcast May 9 2014. Playlist available at  http://bit.ly/1hCOh0F "Please try to collect all the information you can and make sure nothing bad happens."

ENCORE Episode 206: Metadata's Evil Twin 16.10.2020

Part 4 of JUST GOOGLE IT A discussion of Dave Egger's THE CIRCLE (McSweeneys 2013). First broadcast May 2 2014. Playlist available at  http://bit.ly/1rNn9Rr

Episode 473: The Leiden Manifesto 09.10.2020

image: still from Leiden Manifesto video produced by Kindea Labs Guest: Dr Diana Hicks, Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, and lead author of the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/ . Transcript ; Playlist at:  https://www.wrek.org/?p=35069 First broadcast Oct 9, 2020 "These numbers do have consequences."

Episode 472: The African American Struggle for Library Equality 02.10.2020

Guest: Dr Aisha Johnson, archivist and professor at NC Central University, and author of The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program (2019, Rowman & Littefield). Transcript ; Playlist at:  https://www.wrek.org/?p=35035 First broadcast Oct 2, 2020 "I'll still do my research in the stacks, because that's where the truth lives."

ENCORE Episode 205: "Metadata is Important!" 25.09.2020

Part 3 of JUST GOOGLE IT Guest: Greer Martin of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and University of Georgia Libraries First broadcast April 25 2014. Playlist available at  http://bit.ly/1ijDUD5

Episode 471: Doomscrolling 18.09.2020

Image graphics by FMF design, i cons, and Fahmi. From Noun Project. Creative Commons CC-BY. First broadcast Sept 18, 2020 Transcript ; Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=34908 "I suspect anthropologists will look back to this time and say that the invention of the infinite scroll was a pivotal moment in human evolution..."

ENCORE Episode 204: "What Does Google Really Want?" 11.09.2020

Part 2 of JUST GOOGLE IT Guest: Dr. Ian Bogost of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 18 2014. Playlist available at  http://bit.ly/1leBqJ1

Episode 470: Nostalgia and Late Capitalism 08.09.2020

First broadcast September 4 2020. Transcript;   Playlist "Who came up with the theme for this episode?"

ENCORE Episode 203: "Google Books & Libraries" 28.08.2020

Part 1 of JUST GOOGLE IT Guest: Kevin Smith of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University. First broadcast on April 11 2014. Playlist at http://bit.ly/1ehIgun

Episode 469: The Distant Reader, or: How to Read Lots and Lots and Lots of Books 21.08.2020

Guest: Eric Lease Morgan, Librarian at University of Notre Dame and original creator of https://distantreader.org/ First broadcast AUG 21, 2020. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=34774 "The Distant Reader is a tool that enhances your ability to consume, read, understand, analyze a large corpora of...STUFF."

ENCORE Episode 313: Data as Packet-Switching Glitch Art 14.08.2020

Part 5 of DATA RULES Guest: Joelle Dietrick of Davidson College. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2016/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-august-5th-2016-data-as-packet-switching-glitch-art-episode-313/ First broadcast August 5 2016. "Sometimes I find the most interesting moment in my research is when I have a chance encounter with something I wasn't expecting."

ENCORE Episode 312: Data Driven Decisions 07.08.2020

Part 4 of DATA RULES Guest: Marlee Givens of the Georgia Tech Library Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2016/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-july-29th-2016-data-driven-decisions-episode-312/ First broadcast on July 29 2016. "Aren't we using data whenever we make decisions?"

Episode 468: Bodies on the Line 31.07.2020

Guest: Joshua Weitz of Georgia Tech. First broadcast July 31 2020. Transcript http://hdl.handle.net/1853/63100 "Part of that is to be more informed about the real-time risk."

ENCORE Episode 311: Data as Wood 24.07.2020

Part 3 of DATA RULES Guest: Nicholas Felton of Feltron. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2016/07/playlist-for-los…wood-episode-311/ First broadcast on July 22 2016. "Did you say 'data as wood'? Like trees?"

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