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

For this episode of the GT Library Guidebook series, the show team talks about room G201 in the Georgia Tech Library, also known as the Microfilm Reading Room, and reflects on old media, libraries, and small hidden spaces. Part XV of The GT Library Guidebook First broadcast September 4 2026. Playlist "I guess I'm Team Microfilm?"

The three assistant deans of the Georgia Tech Library join the show to talk about their jobs, responsibilities, and aspirations in their leadership roles. Guests: Jay Forrest, Assistant Dean for Collections Strategy and Development; Dr. Mack Freeman, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives; and Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, all at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast August 28 2026. Playlist "What's an assistant dean? What do they do? Do I need to worry about them when I'm making plans?"  

Elizabeth Keathley and Lisa Grimm, authors of Practical Digital Asset Management (DAM), discuss the principles and the discontents of DAM while reminding us to back digital asset management for the win. Guests: Elizabeth Keathley and Lisa Grimm, authors of Practical Digital Asset Management First broadcast August 21 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81976 Playlist "I get excited about DAM because I get to geek out about metadata."

This encore of Part 3 of the occasional series "Citizen Archiving," which considers the archival actions of private citizens, features an interview with the late Steve Albini, legendary recording engineer and musician, about what must be saved, recorded, and considered when creating the master tapes of musical performances. Part 3 of CITIZEN ARCHIVING Guest: Steve Albini of Electrical Audio. First broadcast February 26 2016. Playlist; Transcript at http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54619 "There may be no Pixies in the old country..."

The hosts of the library-themed WRFG Atlanta public-affairs show Radical Reference With Sister Sai talk about how the show started and their values, process, and plans for radical reference on the radio. Guests: Saira Raza and Keeza Hameed, hosts of Radical Reference on WRFG Atlanta (and Emory librarians). First broadcast on August 7 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81972 Playlist "We're not the only game in town any more!"

In the third and final episode of an unofficial "Library of Congress" trilogy, catalogers from the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on Subfield V Retention discuss the Library of Congress's announcement that they have stopped using Subfield V and form subdivisions, e.g. "Mistaken identity--Juvenile drama." Guests: Chloe Misorski, Head of Cataloging Services and Library Systems at Cleveland Museum of Art; Eduardo Fojo, Media Cataloger Librarian at Florida International University; and Deborah Tomaras, Metadata and Resource Management Librarian at Marist University.  First broadcast July 31 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81971 Playlist "...a bit of the subject heading that tells you not what the item is about but what it is."

Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality." Guests: Deborah Tomaras, Metadata and Resource Management Librarian at Marist University; Tina Gross, Metadata Analyst at University of Minnesota. First broadcast July 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81968 Playlist "We asked Deborah to explain why this quite common term, which has been around since the 1950s, and has literary warrant, was not accepted as a subject heading in 2024."

The show team, with the help of cataloger Sofia Slutskaya, discusses the Library of Congress and tries to answer the question, "We don't have a National Library... or do we?" Guest: Sofia Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description at Emory University Libraries. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81867 First broadcast July 10, 2026. Playlist "As a cataloger, I need a more precise definition."

A Georgia Tech faculty member describes how using AI to write MATLAB code improved a course on chemical reactor design and the benefits of discarding the analytic solution for complex, real-life problems. Guest: Dr. Michael Filler of the Georgia Tech School of Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering. First broadcast June 26 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81864 Playlist "You are expected to use AI tools in this course."

The show team discusses the 2013 blog post "The End of the Library" by M.G. Siegler, clickbait that argued that the economics of ebooks and the existence of the Internet meant that libraries had to change or disappear. First broadcast June 12 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81848 Playlist "Today's episode is called 'The End of the Library.' No it's not, it's called Clickbait."

The show team has an unthemed conversation for this summer free cut. They discuss travelling to see art, Google Maps, having your assumptions tested, failure as growth, and if the phrase "get in the car, it's summer" has any significant cultural meaning. First broadcast June 5 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81828 Playlist "Yeah, it's not really working for me."

Georgia Tech faculty members talk about experimenting with virtual reality tools in a composition course, students experiencing multimodal Hamlet, and assessing how best to teach the "To be or not to be" monologue. Audio from a live recording during the Georgia Tech Library's Media Arts Day, January 29 2026.  Guests: Dr. Kelly Williams, Marion L Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech; Dr. Meryem Yilmaz Soylu, research scientist at the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U); Alison Valk, the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library.  First broadcast May 29 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81791 Playlist "That's as you like it."

Members of the Georgia Tech Library's Accessibility Community of Practice get into the weeds discussing alt text for mathematics in scholarly works. Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 22 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81587 Playlist "We're getting down in the weeds."

A Georgia Tech scholar from the College of Liberal Arts discusses the place of humanities in academia and how crisis is their natural habitat. Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. First broadcast May 8, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81266 Playlist.  "The humanities, as a term, would not exist without substantial crisis in how human beings think about themselves."

A recovering academic discusses Russian dissident literature and why samizdat is not a monolithic genre. Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union First broadcast May 1 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81260 Playlist "Yoga?"

For an Introduce Yourself show, a new but seasoned Georgia Tech librarian discusses his year of firsts in the profession. Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81255 Playlist "Right on."

The librarian who founded and curates International Counterculture Archive at the Global Resources Center at George Washington University discusses hard-bolied magnitizdat (i.e. underground recordings in the Soviet Union). Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University.  First broadcast April 17 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81243 Playlist "You may be familiar with the Russian word samizdat."

The ongoing series "There's an Archivist for That?" features archival work in unexpected places or with intriguing collections. This episode features a specialist in food & drink archives and library services around the science of food and wine and their role in culture. Guest: Audrey Russek, Head of the UC Davis Food and Drink Collection Broadcast April 10, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81239 Playlist  "You might not be looking at the cookbook for the recipes, you might be looking at it to understand community."

Guest: Heather Jeffcoat, Web and Discovery Management Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 3 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81151 Playlist "You ever miss the days when you could change a website just by typing in a few HTML lines?"

Guest: Wayne Li, James L. Oliver Professor of the Practice in the Colleges of Design and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. First broadcast March 20, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80843 Playlist "It's always a tricky question to answer without context."

Guest: Dr. Allison Mickel, H. Bruce McEver Chair in Archaeological Science and Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. First broadcast March 13 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80732 Playlist "It's not all excavation."

First broadcast March 6 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80730 Playlist "They need the resources, they need the services, they need the space." 

Guests: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, Kirk Henderson, Exhibitions Manager, and Connor Lynch, Exhibits Associate at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast February 20 2026. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80711 Playlist "I don't need encouragment or assistance to reminisce about the 90s."

Guest: Dr. Robert "Bo" Jacobs, historian of nuclear technologies. First broadcast February 13 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80652 Playlist "Yes, optimism!"

First broadcast February 6 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80608 Playlist "I'd like to call it Lucky Thirteen!"

Guest: Dr Lynn Kamerlin, GT professor in the school of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and head of the Kamerlin Lab. First broadcast January 30 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80597 Playlist "I called you a champion. That's apt, right?"

Guest: Vanesa Evers, Institutional Repository Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast January 23 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80191 Playlist "Right on."

Guests: Dr. Yanni Loukissas, associate professor of Digital Media in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and Dr. Sylvia Janicki, Digital Media 2025 First broadcast January 16 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80044  Playlist "I'm trying to not get the willies."

First broadcast January 9 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80043 Playlist "The world has been reminded of just how unpredictable everything is."

First broadcast December 19 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79955 Playlist "We have a Christmas episode. And this is it."  

Guest: Dr Gabrielle Thomas, Professor of Early Christianity and Anglican Studies at Emory University First broadcast December 12 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79941 Playlist "Disabuse! Yeah, that was the word I was going for."

Guest: Jason Wright, Communications Director for the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 5 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79932  Playlist "I may have made a mistake here."

Rerun from November 26th, 2010.

First broadcast November 21 2025. Transcript.  Playlist "Maybe a little bit of attitude."

Guest: Dr. Mark S. Burton, clinical psychologist First broadcast November 14 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79920  Playlist "I think I sort of fell into psychedelics."

Guest: Cierra Cooper, Public Services Associate Lead at the Georgia Tech Library First broadcast November 7 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79918  Playlist "You have to replace that."

Guest: Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist & Special Collections Curator, Georgia Tech Archives First broacast on October 31 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79910  Playlist "How do we justify these purchases at an academic library?"

Guest: Dr. Manda Sexton, Interim Director of Resource Strategy and Management at Kennesaw State University Libraries First broadcast on October 24 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79881  Playlist "Do you like people, and do people like you?"

Guest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group First broadcast October 10 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79880  Playlist "Normally, I hope his advice for us is to drive at TOP SPEED."

Guest: Alex Brinson, Reference Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast October 3 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79348  Playlist here "Wait, you said 'even colder' in the vault?"

First broadcast September 26 2025. LITS Panel discuss their experiences with imposter syndrome. Playlist here. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/79331  "Uh oh."

The ongoing series "There's an Archivist for That?" features archival work in unexpected places or with intriguing collections. Guest: Brittan Dunham, film/video archivist and filmmaker First broadcast September 19 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78840 Playlist here "You know what to do when you hear the secret word, right?"

First broadcast September 12 2025. Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78830  "We are going to get nostalgic today."

Guests: Catherine Manci, Public Programming and Community Engagement Librarian, and Felicia Kornegay, Events Manager, from the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 5 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78792  Playlist here "You can see their reactions in real-time."

Guests: Dr Nicole Cooke (University of South Carolina) and Dr Aisha Johnson (GT Library) First broadcast August 29 2025. Playlist  here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78787  "Their work was challenged by both official segregationist policies, and unofficial but pervasive bias and discrimination." Find out more about the bookThe Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be Powerful

First broadcast Aug 22, 2025.  Playlist here. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78782  "It's also important to remember that there is a diversity of thought."

First broadcast August 15, 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78772  Playlist here "Educate the educators."

Guest: Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper First broadcast August 8 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78513 Playlist here "So I have to go by what Leonardo said..."

Guest: Melissa Hagemann, Director of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), discussing her paper Lessons for the Global Transition to Global Equitable Open Access to Research.  First broadcast August 1 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78436  Playlist here "And that is what we call an inequity."

The ongoing series "There's an Archivist for That?" features archival work in unexpected places or with intriguing collections. Guest: Allison Schein, Director, Archives and Rights Management at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution First broadcast July 25 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78330  Playlist here "I love audio, and I want to work in Archives!"