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Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
361 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsEvery Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.
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Episodes
Encore of Episode 180: Open Access and its Enemies
March 06, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBPart 2 of OPEN ACCESS Guest: Britt Holbrook of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech First Broadcast on October 18th, 2013 Playlist
Episode 460: Open as a Process
February 28, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBphoto by ijclark Guests: Simon Bowie, Kevin Sanders, and Emily Nunn First broadcast February 28 2020. Transcript; Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-28th-open-as-a-process-episode-460/ "Perhaps academia could “get a free thing going.”
Episode 459: From Embedded To Rooted
February 21, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBFirst broadcast February 21 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-21st-from-embedded-to-rooted-episode-459/ "Where would we be without library jargon?"
Episode 458: Multimodal Information Literacy
February 14, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBFirst broadcast February 14 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-14th-multimodal-information-literacy-episode-458/ "Finding that subtext inside of which way an arrow's pointing in the graph."
Episode 457: Libraries as Convivial Spaces
February 07, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBGuest: Oscar Gittemeier of the Fulton County Library System and Sandjar Kozubaev of Georgia Tech. First broadcast February 7 2020. Playlist TK "I’ve recently learned from our guests that the word convivial has a different interpretation than what I thought."
Episode 456: #DoNoHarm
January 31, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_friedman/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ Guest: Robin Fay First broadcast January 31 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-31st-donoharm-episode-456/ "Good gracious Ignatius!"
Episode 455: Ten Years, Man! TEN YEARS
January 24, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBFirst broadcast January 24 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-24th-ten-years-man-ten-years-episode-455/ "So I get to say the show title too? I'm excited."
Episode 454: The Rise of Populism and the Fall(?) of Open Access
January 17, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBGuest: Richard Poynder First broadcast January 17 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-17th-the-rise-of-populism-and-the-fall-of-open-access-episode-454/ "Is that naïve and simple?"
Episode 453: When Did Efficiency Become the End Goal?
January 10, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBFirst broadcast January 10 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32892 "People will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which they are committed."
Episode 452: In the Year 2020
January 03, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBFirst broadcast January 3 2020. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/01/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-january-3rd-in-the-year-2020-episode-452/ "I am an optimist."
Mobilizing History with J. Mark Souther
December 27, 2019 22:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBLearn all about this bonus episode here First broadcast December 27 2019.
Episode 451: LITSmas 2019, LITS Go To The Movies
December 20, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBFirst broadcast December 20 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32869 "If you think you’ve discovered something, please don’t steal it."
Episode 450: The Library Book
December 13, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBFirst broadcast December 13 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32839 "I've got to steal that book."
Episode 449: The Maintainers
December 06, 2019 22:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBGuests: Lee Vinsel, Andrew Russell, and Jessica Meyerson of The Maintainers First broadcast December 6 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32775 "I am so pumped. Maintenance... Infrastructure..."
Episode 448: How To Write A Book Chapter
November 29, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBGuests: Marlee Givens and Liz Holdsworth of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast November 29 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32667 "I was captain of the literature review."
Episode 447: Delete Yourself From Social Media
November 22, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBGuest: Liz Holdsworth of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast November 22 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/11/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-november-22nd-delete-yourself-episode-447/ "I deleted my Facebook to change my behavior."
Episode 446: Invest in Open
November 15, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBGuest: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Scarborough First broadcast November 15, 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=32455 "The development of these open tools should be driven by the community. The community should have a say as to how the data should be used, and who has a right to use it."
Episode 445: On Record: Tracing the Lifecycle of Political Archives
November 08, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBGuest: Sheryl Vogt, Director of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia Libraries. First broadcast on November 8 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/11/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-november-8th-on-record-tracing-the-lifecycle-of-political-archives-episode-445/ "Trust your archivists, folks!"
Episode 443: Metadata of the Dead
October 25, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBImage: ©2011 Braydon Fuller Guest: Robin Fay aka GeorgiaWebGurl First broadcast October 25 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/10/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-october-25th-metadata-of-the-dead-episode-443/ "I'm delighted to point out that sometimes that's known as a graveyard shift."
Episode 442: Archivists Against History Repeating Itself
October 18, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBGuests: Itza Carbajal and Michaela Hart. First broadcast October 18 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/10/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-october-18th-archivists-against-history-repeating-itself-episode-442/ "We come together because of, not despite of, our professional obligations."
Episode 441: The CASE Act
October 11, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBGuest: Philip Burrus of the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group in Atlanta, GA First broadcast October 11, 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/10/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-october-11th-the-case-act-episode-440/ "I do worry sometimes about how governments implement noble causes."
ENCORE Episode 185: Material Data in a Material World
October 04, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBPart 2 of FEATS OF ENGINEERING Guest: Tony Fast of MINED Research Group. First broadcast February 14 2014. Playlist at http://bit.ly/1eWTh3q
Episode 440: Things New and Strange
September 27, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBGuest: Dr. Wayne Clough of the Smithsonian and Georgia Tech. First broadcast September 27 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-27th-things-new-and-strange-episode-440/ "The Smithsonian is emphatically NOT America's attic."
Episode 439: Graffiti Kings
September 20, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBGuest: Randy Gue of the Rose Library at Emory Libraries. First broadcast September 20 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-20th-graffiti-kings-episode-439/ "That's an Atlanta joke that some of you got."
Episode 438: Bad Luck and Trouble: The Musician Edition
September 13, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBPart 3 of BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE First broadcast September 13 2019. Playlist at https://bit.ly/2mhL2KN “Do you hear the black helicopters?”
Episode 437: Second Lives
September 06, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBFirst broadcast September 6 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-6th-second-lives-episode-437/ "You know how this is a college radio station?"
Episode 436: MARTA Archaeology
August 30, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBGuest: Dr. Jeffrey Glover, Georgia State University. First broadcast August 30 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-30th-marta-archaeology-episode-436/ "It is cool to hold something that's like a hundred-plus years old."
Episode 435: Authored by AI
August 23, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBFirst broadcast Augst 23 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-23rd-authored-by-ai-episode-435/ "Alexa is here. Ask her if she's a cop."
Episode 434: Data Cultures
August 16, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBGuest: Dr. Amelia Acker, University of Texas at Austin. First broadcast August 16 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-16th-data-cultures-episode-434/ "What is an archivist?"
Episode 433: Free Cut
August 09, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55 MBFirst broadcast August 9 2019 Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-9th-free-cut-episode-433/ "Woah."
Episode 432: Data Feminism
August 02, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBGuest: Dr. Lauren Klein of Georgia Tech. First broadcast August 2 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-august-2nd-data-feminism-episode-432/ "You know who Reviewer #2 is!"
Episode 431: Flâneur
July 26, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBGuest: Brennan Collins, Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Georgia State University. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-26th-flaneur-episode-431/ "I think giving people access to information, and not just access to finding information, but to use information is key to what we are trying to do."
Episode 430: Metadata in a Material World
July 19, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBGuest: Robin Fay aka georgiawebgurl First broadcast July 19 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-19th-metadata-in-a-material-world-episode-430/ "I think it might be turtles all the way down."
Episode 429: All Data Are Local
July 12, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBGuest: Yanni Loukissas of Georgia Tech. First broadcast July 12 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-12th-all-data-are-local-episode-429/ "The public, more generally, has been alerted to the dark side of data."
ENCORE Episode 277: "The Library Freedom Project"
July 05, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBGuest: Alison Macrina of The Library Freedom Project First broadcast October 30 2015. Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=13045 "You know, this is how presidential candidates are usually interviewed."
ENCORE Episode 225: Raw Data is an Oxymoron
June 28, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBPart 1 of THE SYSTEM IS AN ARGUMENT Guest: Geoffrey Bowker of UC Irvine. First broadcast September 19 2014. Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=10368 "Information systems are not totally objective."
Episode 428: The Library Between the Lines
June 21, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55 MBGuest: Dean Jacqueline Royster of Georgia Tech. First broadcast June 21 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-21st-the-library-between-the-lines-episode-428/ "I don't disappear. I am faithful."
Episode 427: Presidential Libraries
June 14, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBGuest: Greg Walker of Houser-Walker Architecture. First broadcast June 14 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-14th-presidential-libraries-episode-427/ "And of course many people thought that was a terrible idea."
Episode 426: How to Disappear Completely
June 07, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBFirst broadcast June 7 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-7th-how-to-disappear-completely-episode-426/ "My inner Harry Caul!"
Episode 425: Resisting GAFAM
June 01, 2019 00:30 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBFirst broadcast May 31 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-may-31st-resisting-gafam-episode-425/ "The problem is the convenience."
ENCORE Episode 305: The Voyager Record
May 24, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBPart 4 of LOST IN THE STACKS IN SPACE First broadcast May 27 2016. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2016/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-may-27th-2016-the-voyager-record-episode-305/ "Those records are far out, man."
Episode 424: An Archive of Planet Earth
May 17, 2019 20:45 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBGuest: Nova Spivack of Arch Mission Foundation. First broadcast May 17 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-may-17th-an-archive-of-planet-earth-episode-424/ "All archives grapple with questions of what to preserve."
Episode 423: Libraries at Scale
May 10, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MBGuest: Roger Schonfeld, director of the Ithaka S+R Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program. First broadcast May 10 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-may-10th-libraries-at-scale-episode-423/ "Is this the episode where libraries finally take over the world?"
Podcast extra: Full interview from LITS 422
May 10, 2019 18:23 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBFull interview with Daniel Kalder from episode 422.
Episode 422: Catastrophes of Literacy
May 03, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 93.4 MBGuest: Daniel Kalder, Author of The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy. First broadcast May 3, 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-may-3rd-how-to-write-a-book-iii-catastrophes-of-literacy-episode-422/ "If you're writing a book about dictators...there's all kinds of strategies to bring the reader along so they are not suffering."
Episode 421: Deepfake
April 26, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBGuest: Mark Reidl of Georgia Tech. First broadcast April 26 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-april-26th-deepfake-episode-421/ "Do you really hate the internet as much as Ameet?"
Episode 420: As Your Attorney I Advise You Again to Drive at Top Speed
April 19, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBFirst broadcast April 19 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-april-19th-as-your-attorney-i-advise-you-again-to-drive-at-top-speed-episode-420/ "It'll be a miracle if we get to Las Vegas before you become a wild animal."
ENCORE Episode 363: Whose Data? My Data!
April 12, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBGuest: Antti “Jogi” Poikola of Aalto University. First broadcast November 10 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/11/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-november-10th-whose-data-my-data-episode-363/ "Radical times."
Episode 419: Plan S from Outer Space
April 05, 2019 20:30 - 59 minutes - 96.3 MBGuest: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign First broadcast April 5, 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-april-5th-plan-s-from-outer-space-episode-419/ "There's a lot of complexity here!"
Episode 418: Peer Review and the Cold War
March 29, 2019 19:23 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBGuest: Melinda Baldwin of Physics Today. First broadcast March 29 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/03/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-march-29th-peer-review-and-the-cold-war-episode-418/ "There were other consequences, don't you think?"