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

Guest Alex McGee discusses her new position as University Archivist at Georgia Tech. First broadcast Sept 16 2022. Playlist here , transcript here

Guest: Snowden Becker, Archives and Collections Consultant First broadcast September 9 2022 -- podcast contains unbroadcast material. Transcript here ; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-september-9-2022-punctum-episode-531/ Snowden Becker talks with the LITS crew about how objects take on new properties when they are processed into collections.

Guest Cicely Lewis, librarian at Meadow Creek High School talks about keeping diverse school library collections and what it actually means to be "woke". Broadcast Sept 2, 2022 Transcript here . Playlist at https/www.wrek.org/?p=38006

Guest: Professor Michael Bibler of LSU. First broadcast August 26 2022. Transcript here. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-september-2-2022-love-needs-to-be-louder-episode-530/ Featuring an interview with one of the contributors to the book The Tacky South .

Guest: Evan Mayo-Wilson, of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses his research into whether peer review can help to mitigate author spin in academic publications. First broadcast August 19, 2022 Transcript here Playlist at: https/www.wrek.org/?p=37980

Guests:  Amber Moore, Autumn Wilson, Cathy Miller, and Kendall Barksdale, representatives of the team working to process and digitize the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Collection at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library. First broadcast August 12 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-august-12-2022-the-joseph-and-evelyn-gibson-lowery-collection-episode-...

Guest Ann Kardos, Librarian at UMass-Amherst discusses her creative project "Unseen Labor." First broadcast July 29, 2022 Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-29-2022-unseen-labor-episode-526/ Transcript available.

First broadcast July 22 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-22-2022-steal-this-show-episode-525/(opens in a new tab) The LITS crew is joined by guest host Alison Reynolds to talk rare books and theft. Transcript available.

Guest: Anu Moorthy of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast July 15 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-15-2022-tickets-and-tunnels-episode-524/(opens in a new tab) Anu Moorthy, the new Electronic Resources Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library, discusses the ups and downs of her job. Transcript available.

Guest: Mitsuko Ito of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech First broadcast July 8 2022. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-8-2022-a-material-method-for-mental-health-episode-523/ A discussion of tapping, a mental-calming technique. Transcript available.

Guest: Jamila Hastick, Electronic Services Librarian, Library of Parliament It's Canada Day! Guest Jamila Hastick talks about what it's like to work as a librarian in the Canadian Library of Parliament/Bibliothèque du Parlement. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-1-2022-the-library-of-parliament-happy-canada-day-episode-522/(opens in a new tab) Transcript...

Guests: Kathy Makos (Smithsonian, retired) and Jenny Houlroyd (Georgia Tech) What is an industrial hygienist? We speak to two industrial hygienists to find out how their profession can make libraries, archives, and other workplaces safer. And spoiler alert, industrial hygiene doesn't have anything to do with teeth. Originally broadcast June 24, 2022. Transcript available.

First broadcast June 10 2022. The show crew discusses summer reading -- their own, other's, and Stephen King's.

Guests: Jason Aukerman and Carrie Cooper of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. First broadcast May 13 2022. Playlist at The director and assistant director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies talk about the ins and outs of running a small research center.

Guests: Dr Cassidy Sugimoto, Chair of Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and Dr Thema Monroe-White, professor of Data Analytics at Berry College Dr Sugimoto and Dr Monroe-White share their research into how scientific literature citation numbers are unequal among different racial and gender categories. Transcript at:  http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66373   Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/2022/04/...

Guest: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe of the University of Illinois Library and I-School First broadcast Apr 15, 2022 Lisa explains syndication of scholarly content, and what it might mean for academic libraries. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-apr-15-2022-scholarly-syndication-episode-517/

Guest: Deanna Sirlin First broadcast April 8 2022. Transcript ; Playlist TK "It's about color more than abstraction."

Guests: Professor Todd Michney and Dr. Brad Rittenhouse of Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 1 2022. Transcript ; Playlist TK "I  hope you two librarians handled yourselves okay in a conversation about citizen archiving."

Guest: Seti Keshmiripour of University of North Texas Libraries. First broadcast March 18 2022. Transcript ; Playlist TK "We could pay them more."

Guest: Dr. Eric Lewis of Georgia Tech and tipsyturvy Ulysses First broadcast March 4 2022. Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/?p=37333 " Ulysses , instead of being a novel, is kind of multiple novels, successively..."

i mage credit: "Polar Bear on Thin Ice" by Christoper Michel, CC-BY, via flickr.com Guest: Philip Burrus, Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group First broadcast Feb 18, 2022. Transcript ; Playlist at:  https://www.wrek.org/2022/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-feb-18-2022-the-server-rule-and-polar-bears-on-thin-ice-episode-512/ "Not a get-out-of-jail-free card."

Guest: Dr. Aisha Johnson of the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast February 11, 2022 Transcript ; Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2022/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-feb-11-2022-new-librarian-new-challenge-episode-511/ "I have to get out of the house."  

Guest: Chad Hutchens, Head of Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries. First broadcast September 15 2017. Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2017/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-23rd-fossils-in-glorious-3d-episode-357/ "...unfettered by a carbonaceous film."

"I have been confused with a collector." Guest: Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records. First broadcast September 5 2014. Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=10191

"Punk rock!" First broadcast September 1 2017. Playlist at  https://www.wrek.org/2017/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-1st-dischord-records-is-history-episode-356/