Episode 624: Improve the Situation
Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast January 17 2025. Playlist here "What does 'fuss' mean in a professional context?"
Episodes
Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.
Episodes
Episode 623: LITSmas 2024 (Christmas Cooking)
First broadcast December 20 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76696 Playlist here . "Well then, Merry Archives."
Episode 622: Can Learning Be Affordable? And Can the Library Help?
Guest: Danielle Evans, Affordable Learning Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 13 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76626 . Playlist here "I think every librarian is an affordable learning librarian."
Episode 621: The Fifth Floor But Also Everywhere
Guest: Martin Patrick, Head of Technical Services at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 6 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76623 . Playlist here "... the most thoroughly represented – and perhaps most important, although don’t tell the Dean I said so..."
Episode 620: Whither Google Scholar?
First broadcast November 22 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76527 ; Playlist here "A black box sinking below the wreckage."
Episode 619: Growing Art in the Georgia Tech Library
Guest: Dr. Bojana Ginn, 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast November 15 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76521 ; Playlist here "Art can be about absolutely anything. And it can be absolutely anything."...
Episode 618: Academic Publishing on an AI Hamster Wheel
Guest: Lai Ma, assistant professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, discussing how AI will affect the scholarly publishing ecosystem, as described in her recent article: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/287 . First broadcast November 8 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76513 ; Playlist here "I meant to say I was feeling nauseated."...
Episode 617: In the Warehouse District
Guest: Nic Fann, Records Administrator at Georgia Tech. First broadcast November 1, 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76396 ; Playlist here "It's a big building with a lot of paper in it."...
Episode 616: New Archivist, Digital Problems
Guest: Cliff Landis, Digital Curation Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast October 25 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76354 Playlist "Did you get any existential dread?"
Episode 615: The Uproar Class
Guests: Afra Bolefski, Inclusive User Experience Strategist at the University of Toronto; Mai Lu, Head of Public Services & Outreach at University of Toronto Mississauga, and Xiying Mi, Head of Resource Description at University of Wisconsin-Madison First broadcast October 11 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76318 ; Playlist here "Speak out."...
Episode 614: The Science Fiction Lounge
Guest: Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian and Science Fiction subject specialist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 4 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76294 ; Playlist here "I would be reading all this anyway."...
Episode 613: The Human in the Loop
Guest: Arnetta Girardeau, Copyright and Licensing Librarian at UNC Charlotte. First broadcast September 20 2024. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/76031 , Playlist here "It seems technology progresses much faster than our archive access policies."...
Episode 612: On Beyond Cataloging
Guest: Presley Dyer, Metadata Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 13 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75820 ; Playlist here "...while the work of a metadata librarian includes cataloging, it goes beyond that."
Episode 611: The GT Library Guidebook
Guest: Jason Wright, Director of Communications for the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 6 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75813 ; Playlist here "Can I do a radio voice?"...
Episode 610: DIY Punk Strategies in the Library Classroom
Photo credit: Joe Lacey (@joexlacey) Guests: Kevin Adams, Information Literacy Librarian at Herrick Memorial Library, Alfred University and Edward Gloor, Teaching & Learning Librarian at University of Houston Libraries. First broadcast August 23 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75767 ; Playlist here "What's the most punk rock thing you've ever done?"...
Episode 605: You Can't Digitize Everything
PART 1 of THE STORIES ARCHIVES TELL Guest: Katie Gentilello, Digital Projects Coordinator at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast August 16 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75507 ; Playlist here "One might think you have an agenda..."...
Episode 609: Three More Themes
First broadcast July 26 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75451 ; Playlist here "It's very hot in here."
Episode 608: Equal Access to the Online Library
PART 1 of ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT series Guests: Dawn Evans, Accessibility Specialist and Valerie Morrison, E-Text Manager, GT’s Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) First broadcast July 19 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75448 ; Playlist here "If you could define accessibility in less than ten words..."...
Episode 607: The Power of Good Description
PART 2 of THE STORIES THAT ARCHIVES TELL series Guest: Alex Brinson, ACRL Diversity Resident at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast on June 28 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75444 Playlist here. "Archives are not neutral."...
Episode 606: Media Literacy at the Carter Center
Part 4 of MAJOR AND MINOR THREATS series Guest: Sarah Morris, Media Literacy Program Consultant at the Carter Center. First broadcast June 21 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75406 ; Playlist here "Media literacy is plenty dramatic."...
Episode 604: Let's Get Medieval
Image from British Library, Harley 4335. Boethius (anonymous French translation), Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book 1) France, Central (Bourges); 1477, fol 1. Guest: Dr. Julia Schneider of University of Notre Dame Library. First broadcast May 31 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75387 ; Playlist here "The Middle Ages rocked the cradle of knowledge..."...
Episode 603: The Library Attrition Tracker
First broadcast May 24 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75357 ; Playlist here "Turn the mics off for a second. All of them."
Episode 602: Are You The Gatekeeper?
Guest: Chris Tanguay, Processing Archivist at MIT Libraries. First broadcast May 17 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75052 ; Playlist here "Don't bring little black clouds to work."
Episode 601: Instruction Assessment Check-in
Guest: Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian for the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast May 10 2024. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75042 , Playlist here "We'll fix it during the first music set."...
Episode 600: New Librarian, New Journey
Guest: Karen Manning, Engagement and Inclusion Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 26 2024. Transcript file at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/74946 , Playlist here "She's seen some stuff with us."...
Episode 599: Didn't You Get The Memo? Part II
Guest: Kim Powell, Research Impact Informationist, and Jennifer Townes, Open Access Librarian, at Emory University Libraries. First broadcast April 19 2024. Transcript file at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73942 Playlist here "The question is kind of 'what didn't happen?'"...
Episode 598: Yes And the Classroom
Image: By Frankie Fouganthin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24499305 Guests: Professor Cameron Winter of the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program and Hannah Eppling of Little Characters Theater Company and Theater Delta. First broadcast April 12 2024. Transcript file at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73939 ; Playlist here "It's the vulnerability."...
Episode 597: Intellectual Property Digest
Guest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group in Atlanta. First broadcast March 29 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73937 . Playlist here. "Its purpose was to identify The Nuge."...
Episode 596: Archive Atlanta
Guest: Victoria Lemos of Archive Atlanta . First broadcast on March 15 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73832 Playlist here . "As long as they do proper research!"...
Episode 595: Representation and Recognition
Guest: Thera Webb of MIT Libraries First broadcast on March 8 2024. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73828 Playlist here "That was a nuclear bomb situation."...