Charlie Bennett

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

Society EN ↓ 442 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.

Author

Charlie Bennett

Category

Society

Podcast website

library.gatech.edu

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 567: Publisher Shenanigans 28.07.2023

    Guest: Dr Annie Stilz of Princeton University First broadcast July 28 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39653 "Publishers of academic journals are increasingly turning to open access, which sounds great, except..."

Episode 566: What Would Be An Ideal Library Curriculum? 21.07.2023

First broadcast July 21 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39637 "Mark knows very well how to use the card catalog."

Episode 565: Artificially Augmenting Higher Education 14.07.2023

Guest: Emily Weigel of the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. First broadcast July 14 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39584 "My students are going to be hearing about this, they need to know about this."

Episode 564: Assumptions About an AI Future 30.06.2023

First broadcast June 30 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39531 "...be prepared for very shallow dives and knee-jerk reactions."  

Episode 563: Pump the Brakes 23.06.2023

First broadcast June 23 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2023/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-for-june-23-2023-pump-the-brakes-episode-563/ "I'm done talking about it!"

Episode 562: Tech's Tactile Thursday Talk 16.06.2023

Catherine Manci, Public Programming & Community Engagement Specialist for the Georgia Tech Library and Anna Doll, Education Curator at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking First broadcast June 16 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2023/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-for-june-16-2023-techs-tactile-thursday-talk-episode-562/ "Alliteration!"

Episode 561: There is a New Metadata Intern in the Office 02.06.2023

Guest: Robin Fay, librarian and trainer First broadcast June 2 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2023/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-for-june-2-2023-theres-a-new-metadata-intern-in-the-office-episode-561/ "I missed that search committee."

Episode 560: What is the Disability Archives Lab? 19.05.2023

Guest: Gracen Brilmyer, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University and Director of the Disability Archives Lab. First broadcast May 19 2023. Transcript available here ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=39458 "It is so important to feel seen."

Episode 559: The Toolkit for Confronting White Nationalism in Libraries 12.05.2023

Guest: Lindsay Schubiner, Director of Programs at the Western States Center. First broadcast May 12 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=39449 "Let's think about action and reaction." Here's the link to the toolkit: https://www.westernstatescenter.org/libraries

Episode 558: This is a Fine Romance Novel 05.05.2023

Guest: Tatianna Richardson, author of The Build Up First broadcast on May 5 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39409 "Now I get the title!"

Episode 557: Under the Media Bridge 28.04.2023

Guests: Professor Yanni Loukissas of Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication and Jason Wright of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 28 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=39385 "Red Hot Chili Peppers?"

Episode 556: Who Are the Book Jackets? 21.04.2023

Guest: Jordan Kopcha of Book Jackets First broadcast April 21 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39318 "Scheduling the room is the hardest part."

Episode 555: Reactivated Research 14.04.2023

Guests: Alex McGee, University Archivist at Georgia Tech, and Morna Gerrard, Archivist for Women and Gender Collections at Georgia State University. Originally broadcast April 14, 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39280 "Oh, there's going to be trouble."

Episode 554: Meet the Residents 24.03.2023

Guests: Alex Brinson and Kayleah Brown, ACRL Diversity Resident Librarians at the Georgia Tech Library. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39156   Originally broadcast March 24, 2023 "Frankly, it's really hard to break into your first faculty level position." image © slageorgia

Episode 553: Have You Heard of Sci-Hub? 17.03.2023

Guests: Francisco Segado of the University of Madrid, and Juan Martín of King Carlos University. First broadcast March 17 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39127 "Yarrrrrrrrrr!"

Episode 552: Philosophy Shelved: Philosophy's Displacement in the Library 10.03.2023

Guests: Kyle Tanaka, PhD student in Philosophy at Emory University, and Sonya Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description at the Emory Library First broadcast March 10 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39102 "Do I get a second guess?"  

Episode 551: TikTok Copyrok 03.03.2023

Guest: Kristen Brown of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast March 3 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=39058 "I had to focus what is going to impact black creators."

Episode 550: Classroom Libraries Under Siege 24.02.2023

Guest: Pat Barber, president of the Manatee Education Association. First broadcast February 24 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=38995 "Manatee manatee manatee."

Episode 549: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Twitter? 17.02.2023

  First broadcast February 17 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2023/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-17-2023-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-twitter-episode-549/ "Seems a little extreme."

Episode 548: AI: Artificial Issues (in Patents and Copyrights) 10.02.2023

Guest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group First broadcast February 10 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=38943 "All about humans, in some way or another."

Episode 547: Why is Wire-bending in the Library? 03.02.2023

Guests: Dr. Vernelle Noel, Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab at Georgia Tech, and Kirk Henderson, Exhibits Program Manager at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 3 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=38868 " That's a pretty good first guess."

Episode 546: What is Dark Academia? 27.01.2023

Guest: Dr. Paige Miller, Brittain Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech First broadcast January 27 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2023/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-jan-27-2023-what-is-dark-academia-episode-546 /  

Episode 545: What Does the Archivist Care About? 20.01.2023

Guest: Alison Reynolds of the Georgia Tech Archives Originally broadcast Jan 20, 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2023/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-jan-20-2023-what-does-the-archivist-care-about-episode-545/(opens in a new tab) "Definitely about archives."

Episode 544: WTF in 2023? 13.01.2023

First broadcast January 13 2023. Transcript ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2023/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-jan-13-2023-wtf-in-2023-episode-544/ "In the studio!"

ENCORE Episode 510: 2022 The Electric Boogaloo 06.01.2023

First broadcast January 14 2022. 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..."

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