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

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. Seigler, 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."

Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University, discussing the  International Counterculture Archive.  First broadcast April 17 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81243 Playlist "You may be familiar with the Russian word samizdat."

Interview with 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."

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."

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!"

Guests: Danielle Evans, Affordable Learning Librarian; Justin Ellis, Digital Learning & Instruction Librarian; Karen Manning, Student Experience Librarian; and Raven Davis, Research Scientist in Data Analytics, all from the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast July 18 2025. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78035  Playlist here "We're here to bust the myth."

Guests: Tina Seetoo, Preservation Manager at the Delta Flight Museum and Chair of Georgia Heritage Responders, and Erica Hague, Collections Manager at the Atlanta History Center and Communications Manager for Georgia Heritage Responders. First broadcast July 11 2025. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78025  Playlist here "I'm looking forward to learning all about this organization that responds to Georgia's heritage."

Guests: Dennis Nangle and Ashley Sands of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) First broadcast June 27 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/78008  Playlist here "Our listeners probably know about DOGE."

Guest: Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper First broadcast June 20 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77968 Playlist here "You say quite casually that this is the computer age."

First broadcast June 13, 2025. Playlist here, transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77967 "It was quite a ride, and we're getting back on it."

First broadcast June 6 2025. Playlist here; transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77966 "Marlee and I are returning to a topic that we discussed twice on the air, and probably a ton off-air."

Guest: Dr. Drew Whitelegg, Globe Academy First broadcast May 30 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77965 Playlist here "I think the United States is the only English-speaking country that doesn't use the phrase 'cabin crew.'"  

First broadcast May 23 2025. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/77624  Playlist here "Was that a content disclaimer?"