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.

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Author

Charlie Bennett

Category

Society

Podcast website

library.gatech.edu

Latest episode

Oct 9, 2026

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Episodes

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..."

ENCORE Episode 479: 2021 30.12.2022

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

LITSmas 2022: Christmas Island 23.12.2022

First broadcast December 23 2022. Playlist , Transcript "Mele Kalikimaka!"

ENCORE Episode 368: Data Visualization 16.12.2022

"How many times are we going to say 'visualization'?" Guest: Ximin Mi of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast January 12 2018. Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2018/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-12th-data-visualization-episode-368/

Episode 542: Out of the Basement 09.12.2022

Our guests are our co-hosts/our co-hosts are our guests! Marlee Givens of Georgia Tech and Sofia Slutskaya of Emory talk about the new book they edited, Transforming Technical Services through Training and Development . Playlist , Transcript Originally broadcast Dec 9, 2022

Episode 541: How To Revise A Book 02.12.2022

Guest: Prof. Philip Auslander of Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication First broadcast December 1 2022. Transcript , Playlist "It needs to be substantively different from the previous edition, else why do it?"

Episode 540: All the President's Support 18.11.2022

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

Episode 539: There Will Always Be Teaching 11.11.2022

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."

Episode 538: Re-Indigenizing through Storytelling 04.11.2022

'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

Episode 537: Wheel of Scholarly Communication Topics 28.10.2022

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

Episode 536: The Systems Librarian 21.10.2022

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

Episode 535: Meet the Archivist (and the FRED) 07.10.2022

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."

Episode 534: Overnight Code 30.09.2022

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.

Episode 533: Didn't You Get The Memo? 23.09.2022

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

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