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Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show — 441 episodes
Episode 688: Discarding the Analytic Solution
Episode 687: Clickbait
Episode 686: Get In The Car, It's Summer
Episode 685: Multimodal Hamlet
Episode 684: Alt Text For Mathematics
Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat
Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith
Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts
Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat
Episode 679: There's an Archivist for That?! Part IV: Food and Drink Archives
Episode 678: The Front Door of the Library
Episode 677: Design is a Lifestyle
Episode 676: This Is Archaeology
Episode 675: Graduate Students: There's a Place for Us (in the Library)
Episode 674: Centennial Summer
Episode 673: The Nuclear Historian
Episode 672: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Episode 671: Being an Open Science Champion
Episode 670: Digging The Details
Episode 669: Scholarship in Place
Episode 668: Fresh Start
Christmas Specials: LITSmas2025
Episode 666: The Number of the Beast: Setting the Record Straight (To Hell)
Episode 665: Interacting With Media In The Zone
ENCORE Episode 40: Cornucopia
Episode 664: Gratitude, Not Attitude
Episode 663: Evidence-based and Far Out
Episode 662: The Gadgets in the Library (The GT Library Guidebook, Part XI)
Episode 661: Bad Moon Rising
Episode 660: Roles and Identities
Episode 659: The AI (Actual, In-person) Lawyer
Episode 658: Down in the Basement
Episode 657: Fooling Ourselves
Episode 656: There's an Archivist for That!? Part III
Episode 655: My First Memory (of Libraries and Archives)
Episode 654: The Scholars Event Theater
Episode 653: The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship
Episode 652: Belonging in the Inclusive Library
Episode 651: Train the Trainers
Episode 650: How To Write a Book About Notebooks
Episode 649: Global Equitable Open Access
Episode 648: There's An Archivist For That?! Part II
Episode 647: You Can Take It With You
Episode 646: Georgia Heritage Responders
Episode 645: The IMLS: Grappling with Uncertainty in the Time of DOGE
Episode 644: The Notebook Age
Episode 643: More Bad Luck and Trouble
Episode 642: Slow Train Comin' Up Around The Bend
Episode 641: How To Write A Book About Cabin Crews
Episode 640: Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk
Episode 639: Putting the A and the I in Information Literacy.
Episode 638: Remake Remodel
Episode 637: The INFODesk
Episode 636: How To Train Your Algorithm
Episode 635: The Legality of Open Access Mandates
Episode 634: The Archives Reading Room
Episode 633: There's an Archivist for That?!
Uncut Interview with Leo Binkowski
Episode 632: This Machine Fills Metadata Fields
Episode 631: retroTECH in Action
Episode 630: Defining Skylines
Episode 629: Into the Professional Groove
Episode 628: Citizen Science Communication
Episode 627: The Past in the Future
Episode 626: The Future in the Past
Episode 625: Steering the EdTech Ship
Episode 624: Improve the Situation
Episode 623: LITSmas 2024 (Christmas Cooking)
Episode 622: Can Learning Be Affordable? And Can the Library Help?
Episode 621: The Fifth Floor But Also Everywhere
Episode 620: Whither Google Scholar?
Episode 619: Growing Art in the Georgia Tech Library
Episode 618: Academic Publishing on an AI Hamster Wheel
Episode 617: In the Warehouse District
Episode 616: New Archivist, Digital Problems
Episode 615: The Uproar Class
Episode 614: The Science Fiction Lounge
Episode 613: The Human in the Loop
Episode 612: On Beyond Cataloging
Episode 611: The GT Library Guidebook
Episode 610: DIY Punk Strategies in the Library Classroom
Episode 605: You Can't Digitize Everything
Episode 609: Three More Themes
Episode 608: Equal Access to the Online Library
Episode 607: The Power of Good Description
Episode 606: Media Literacy at the Carter Center
Episode 604: Let's Get Medieval
Episode 603: The Library Attrition Tracker
Episode 602: Are You The Gatekeeper?
Episode 601: Instruction Assessment Check-in
Episode 600: New Librarian, New Journey
Episode 599: Didn't You Get The Memo? Part II
Episode 598: Yes And the Classroom
Episode 597: Intellectual Property Digest
Episode 596: Archive Atlanta
Episode 595: Representation and Recognition
Episode 594: Librarians Represent
Full interview from Episode 592: What's on the Price Gilbert Windows?
Episode 593: Old Friend, New Job
Episode 592: What's on the Price Gilbert Windows?
Episode 591: Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta
Episode 590: How to be a Liaison
Episode 589: Who Made That Chair?
Episode 588: Making Virtual Reality a Reality
Episode 587: Southern Industry, Family History
Episode 586: So, Now What?
LITSmas 2023
Episode 584: Three Themes
Episode 583: What Happened?
Episode 582: Critical Race Theory in Libraries
Episode 581: The AI4Libraries Conference
Episode 580: Quietly Refusing To Quit
Episode 579: New Job, New Faculty, New Everything
Episode 578: Open Rules for Cataloging (ORC)
Episode 577: Creative Disorientation
Episode 576: Banned Books Week in Georgia
Episode 575: Feedback and Focus
Episode 574: Bringing the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills to the Library
Episode 573: Digital Instruction, Digital Learning
Episode 572: Free Cut!
Episode 571: Anyone? Anyone?
Episode 570: The SCOTUS Backgrounders
Episode 569: Technical Services Represent!
Episode 568: Set It and Forget It
Episode 567: Publisher Shenanigans
Episode 566: What Would Be An Ideal Library Curriculum?
Episode 565: Artificially Augmenting Higher Education
Episode 564: Assumptions About an AI Future
Episode 563: Pump the Brakes
Episode 562: Tech's Tactile Thursday Talk
Episode 561: There is a New Metadata Intern in the Office
Episode 560: What is the Disability Archives Lab?
Episode 559: The Toolkit for Confronting White Nationalism in Libraries
Episode 558: This is a Fine Romance Novel
Episode 557: Under the Media Bridge
Episode 556: Who Are the Book Jackets?
Episode 555: Reactivated Research
Episode 554: Meet the Residents
Episode 553: Have You Heard of Sci-Hub?
Episode 552: Philosophy Shelved: Philosophy's Displacement in the Library
Episode 551: TikTok Copyrok
Episode 550: Classroom Libraries Under Siege
Episode 549: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Twitter?
Episode 548: AI: Artificial Issues (in Patents and Copyrights)
Episode 547: Why is Wire-bending in the Library?
Episode 546: What is Dark Academia?
Episode 545: What Does the Archivist Care About?
Episode 544: WTF in 2023?
ENCORE Episode 510: 2022 The Electric Boogaloo
ENCORE Episode 479: 2021
LITSmas 2022: Christmas Island
ENCORE Episode 368: Data Visualization
Episode 542: Out of the Basement
Episode 541: How To Revise A Book
Episode 540: All the President's Support
Episode 539: There Will Always Be Teaching
Episode 538: Re-Indigenizing through Storytelling
Episode 537: Wheel of Scholarly Communication Topics
Episode 536: The Systems Librarian
Episode 535: Meet the Archivist (and the FRED)
Episode 534: Overnight Code
Episode 533: Didn't You Get The Memo?
Episode 532: The University Archivist
Episode 531: Punctum
Episode 530: Love Needs to be Louder
Episode 529: A Little Bit Tacky
Episode 528: Spin vs Peer Review
Episode 527: The Joseph and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Episode 526: Unseen Labor
Episode 525: Steal This Show
Episode 524: Tickets and Tunnels
Episode 523: A Material Method for Mental Health
Episode 522: The Library of Parliament (Happy Canada Day!)
Episode 521: The Industrial Hygienist in the Library
Episode 520: The Summer Show
Episode 519: How to Run a Center
Episode 518: Who Are You Citing?
Episode 517: Scholarly Syndication
Episode 516: Artist in Residence II
Episode 515: Across the Folders
Episode 514: For What They're Worth
Episode 513: How To Read A Book In Which Nothing Happens
Episode 512: The Server Rule and Polar Bears on Thin Ice
Episode 511: New Librarian, New Challenge
ENCORE Episode 357: Fossils... in glorious 3D!
ENCORE Episode 223: Citizen Archiving II: Documents & Dischord
ENCORE Episode 356: Dischord Records is History
Episode 510: 2022 The Electric Boogaloo
ENCORE Episode 355: Information Literacy for the Win!
ENCORE Episode 352: More Publishing, More Problems
LITSmas 2021
ENCORE Episode 351: Trust But Verify
Episode 508: 50 Years of Science Fiction
Episode 507: Down by the Grove
ENCORE Episode 089: Research
Episode 506: The Museum of Obsolete Library Science
Episode 505: Can Pirates Build a Bridge Over the Knowledge Access Gap?
Episode 504: Libraryland Inspiration
ENCORE Episode 350: Disrupting Mainstream History
Episode 503: Getting on my CASE: Librarians and the CASE Act
ENCORE Episode 348: The Human Library
Episode 502: On the Trip
ENCORE Episode 347: 129,864,880
ENCORE Episode 346: "The Freedome Library"
ENCORE Episode 345: Squaring the Circle
Episode 501: The Fossil Librarian
Episode 500: The End of the Line
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 499: Recruiting from Retail
Episode 498: Books in a Blender
Episode 497: The Unbearable Uncertainty of Classics
ENCORE of Episode 344: Engineering the Hidden Library
Episode 496: Standing Together
Episode 495: Retractions
Episode 494: A Cure for the Summertime Blues
ENCORE Episode 343: The Interplanetary File System
Episode 493: Telling the Technical Services Story
ENCORE Episode 342: The Diversity Paradigm
Episode 492: That Really Sticks in my Craw
Episode 491: Atlanta Eats
Episode 490: After the Rain
Episode 489: Atomic Tunes
Episode 488: Who Invented Oscar Wilde?
Episode 487: Empathy Bytes VIP
ENCORE Episode 340: Smart Cities, Smart Libraries
Episode 486: Assessment as Craft
ENCORE Episode 339: You Better Run to the City of Data Refuge
Episode 485: New Metadata, New Librarian
Episode 484: Goodreads Must Be Destroyed (?)
ENCORE Episode 338: Copyright Hawks and Doves
ENCORE of Episode 337: Bibliometrics, Yay-Hoo!
Episode 483: A Piece of News
ENCORE Episode 336: The Liberated Archive
Episode 482: The CatalogUing Code of Ethics
Episode 481: In Concert
ENCORE Episode 334: Preserving Decision-Making Data
Episode 480: AI on the Bias
Episode 333: A Digital Dark Age
Episode 479: 2021
ENCORE Episode 452: In the Year 2020
LITSmas 2020
ENCORE Episode 451: LITSmas 2019, LITS Go To The Movies
ENCORE of LITSMAS 2018
Episode 477: Controlled Digital Lending
ENCORE Episode 209: "Expunge Your Digital History"
Episode 476: Human-Centered Research
Episode 475: Breaking Up With Print Periodicals
ENCORE Episode 208: "What Are You Reading?"
Episode 474: Metadata of the Dead II: FrankenData
ENCORE Episode 207: The NSA Show
ENCORE Episode 206: Metadata's Evil Twin
Episode 473: The Leiden Manifesto
Episode 472: The African American Struggle for Library Equality
ENCORE Episode 205: "Metadata is Important!"
Episode 471: Doomscrolling
ENCORE Episode 204: "What Does Google Really Want?"
Episode 470: Nostalgia and Late Capitalism
ENCORE Episode 203: "Google Books & Libraries"
Episode 469: The Distant Reader, or: How to Read Lots and Lots and Lots of Books
ENCORE Episode 313: Data as Packet-Switching Glitch Art
ENCORE Episode 312: Data Driven Decisions
Episode 468: Bodies on the Line
ENCORE Episode 311: Data as Wood
ENCORE Episode 310: Statistical Significance
Episode 467: Virtually Leading the Academic Library
ENCORE Episode 309: Data Librarianship: Naked and Afraid
Episode 466: The Public Programming and Community Engagement Specialist
ENCORE Episode 323: Question My Authority II: Peer Review
Episode 465: GLAM-orizing Your Travel Plans
Encore of episode 315: Question My Authority
Episode 464: Data Murmuration
ENCORE Episode 424: An Archive of Planet Earth
Episode 463: Open Syllabus
Episode 462: 2020 AF
ENCORE Episode 358: The American Music Show
ENCORE Episode 366: Homestar Runner, Gone in a Flash
ENCORE Episode 280: Spoti-FIGHT! Part III: Return of the Revenge of the Independent Artist
ENCORE Episode 265: SpotiFIGHT! II: In the Ring
ENCORE Episode 254: SpotiFIGHT!
ENCORE Episode 399: Our Catalogs, Ourselves
Episode 461: Artist in Residence
Encore of Episode 180: Open Access and its Enemies
Episode 460: Open as a Process
Episode 459: From Embedded To Rooted
Episode 458: Multimodal Information Literacy
Episode 457: Libraries as Convivial Spaces
Episode 456: #DoNoHarm
Episode 455: Ten Years, Man! TEN YEARS
Episode 454: The Rise of Populism and the Fall(?) of Open Access
Episode 453: When Did Efficiency Become the End Goal?
Episode 452: In the Year 2020
Mobilizing History with J. Mark Souther
Episode 451: LITSmas 2019, LITS Go To The Movies
Episode 450: The Library Book
Episode 449: The Maintainers
Episode 448: How To Write A Book Chapter
Episode 447: Delete Yourself From Social Media
Episode 446: Invest in Open
Episode 445: On Record: Tracing the Lifecycle of Political Archives
Episode 443: Metadata of the Dead
Episode 442: Archivists Against History Repeating Itself
Episode 441: The CASE Act
ENCORE Episode 185: Material Data in a Material World
Episode 440: Things New and Strange
Episode 439: Graffiti Kings
Episode 438: Bad Luck and Trouble: The Musician Edition
Episode 437: Second Lives
Episode 436: MARTA Archaeology
Episode 435: Authored by AI
Episode 434: Data Cultures
Episode 433: Free Cut
Episode 432: Data Feminism
Episode 431: Flâneur
Episode 430: Metadata in a Material World
Episode 429: All Data Are Local
ENCORE Episode 277: "The Library Freedom Project"
ENCORE Episode 225: Raw Data is an Oxymoron
Episode 428: The Library Between the Lines
Episode 427: Presidential Libraries
Episode 426: How to Disappear Completely
Episode 425: Resisting GAFAM
ENCORE Episode 305: The Voyager Record
Episode 424: An Archive of Planet Earth
Episode 423: Libraries at Scale
Podcast extra: Full interview from LITS 422
Episode 422: Catastrophes of Literacy
Episode 421: Deepfake
Episode 420: As Your Attorney I Advise You Again to Drive at Top Speed
ENCORE Episode 363: Whose Data? My Data!
Episode 419: Plan S from Outer Space
Episode 418: Peer Review and the Cold War
Episode 417: New Library, New Librarian
Episode 416: Teaching The Archives
ENCORE Episode 267: Authors: Flannery O'Connor
Episode 415: How To Write a Book II: Transformer
Episode 414: Fictional Libraries
Episode 413: Who Discovered the Archives?
Episode 412: The Seminal Works Show
Episode 411: Cruising the Library
Episode 410: The (Library) Innovator's Dilemma
Episode 409: Man-Bats on the Media Landscape
Episode 408: We Know Who We Are
ENCORE Episode 384: What's New in the Public Domain?
LITSmas 2018
Episode 406: "The Frontiers of Privacy"
Episode 405: Skynet Fail: AI in Libraries
Episode 404: Community-Driven Archives
ENCORE Episode 093: The White Glove Show
Episode 403: Literature As Information
Episode 402: The Case For Comics
Episode 401: How To Write A Book: Engaging Design
Episode 400: TF is up with EU GDPR?!
Episode 399: Our Catalogs, Ourselves
Episode 398: OER: The Happening
ENCORE Episode 282: The 404
Full Interview with Dave Beer for LITS 397
Episode 397: Academic Writing as Music
Episode 396: How To Read A Book II: Slow Reading
Episode 395: Citizen Science in the Fossil Lab
Episode 394: Where Are We Going?
ENCORE Episode 294: Unpacking Manuel's Tavern
ENCORE Episode 324: Our Information Will Replace Us
Episode 393: For What It's Worth
ENCORE of Episode 256: Community Builder, Corporate Resistor
Episode 392: Uncataloging Neutrality
Episode 391: How to Read a Book
Episode 390: The Common Good
ENCORE Episode 260: Archives Die Unless We Talk About Them"
Episode 389: The Great Speckled Bird
Episode 388: The Southeast Data Librarian Symposium
Episode 387: The Accidental Mentor
Episode 386: Washed Up Emo
Episode 385: Here There Be Sea Dragons
Episode 253: The People's Platform
Episode 384: What's New in the Public Domain?
Episode 383: Open Access in the Global South
Episode 382: Comprehensive and Totally Secure
ENCORE Episode 232: The Library Beyond The Book
Episode 381: The Atlanta Black Archives Alliance
Episode 380: Appetite for Instruction
Episode 379: The Bytegeist of Podcast Preservation
Episode 378: Outside the Framework
Episode 377: When the Past is the Present
Episode 376: It Could Happen To You
Episode 375: Elvis Had Left The Library
ENCORE of Episode 235: Professional Development
Episode 374: A Good Leader is Hard to Find
Episode 373: The Return of the Revenge of Analog
Episode 372: Keep On Keeping On
Episode 371: Ask Me Who I Was
Episode 370: Report From K-12
Episode 369: The Snow Days
Episode 368: Data Visualization
ENCORE Episode 215: "Citizen Archiving"
LITSmas 2017
Episode 366: Homestar Runner, Gone in a Flash
Episode 365: The Material Oomph
Episode 364: The Mailbag
ENCORE Episode 064: "This I Believe"
Episode 363: Whose Data? My Data!
Episode 362: From Romance to Reality
Episode 361: Happy Halloween From Lily Dale
Episode 360: Ready for Disaster!
ENCORE Episode 212: Back to Bad Luck and Trouble
Episode 359: Designing for Diversity
Episode 358: The American Music Show
Episode 357: Fossils... in Glorious 3D!
ENCORE Episode 262: The DC Punk Archive
Episode 356: Dischord Records is History
Episode 355: Information Literacy for the Win!
Episode 354: 97% Eclipse of the Heart
Episode 353: Salute Your Jorts!
Episode 352: More Publishing, More Problems
Episode 351: Trust But Verify
Episode 350: Disrupting Mainstream History
ENCORE Episode 179: A Personal Guide To Open Access
Episode 349: Doshi Drops the Mic
Episode 348: The Human Library
Episode 347: 129,864,880
Episode 346: The Freedome Library
Episode 345: Squaring the Circle
Episode 344: "Engineering the Hidden Library"
Episode 343: The Interplanetary File System
Episode 342: The Diversity Paradigm
Episode 341: Town, Gown, Cardigan (broadcast version)
Episode 340: Smart Cities, Smart Libraries
Episode 339: You Better Run to the City of Data Refuge
Full Interview with David Lowery
Episode 338: Copyright Hawks and Doves
ENCORE Episode 280: "Spoti-FIGHT! Part III: Return of the Revenge of the Independent Artist"
Episode 337: Bibliometrics, Yay-hoo!
Episode 336: The Liberated Archive
Episode 335: Digital Resilience
Episode 334: Preserving Decision-Making Data
Episode 333: A Digital Dark Age
Episode 332: This is What Democracy Sounds Like
Episode 331: Fake News
Episode 329: What's the Future?
Episode 330: Dystopian Fiction
Episode 293: Citizen Archiving III: The Master Tapes
Episode 272: "Open Sourcing America's Operating System"
Episode 175: Beautiful Library Renovations