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Episode 574: Bringing the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills to the Library

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

Release Date: 09/22/2023

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

The show team discusses the 2013 blog post “” 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 "Today's episode is called 'The End of the Library.' No it's not, it's called Clickbait."

Episode 686: Get In The Car, It's Summer

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

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 "Yeah, it's not really working for me."

Episode 685: Multimodal Hamlet

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

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 , 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...

Episode 684: Alt Text For Mathematics

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

Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 22 2026. Transcript at "We're getting down in the weeds."

Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat

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

Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, discussing the place of humanities in academia. First broadcast May 8, 2026. Transcript at . "The humanities, as a term, would not exist without substantial crisis in how human beings think about themselves."

Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith

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

Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of First broadcast May 1 2026. Transcript at "Yoga?"

Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts

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

Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 24 2026. Transcript at "Right on."

Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat

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

Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University, discussing the . First broadcast April 17 2026. Transcript at "You may be familiar with the Russian word samizdat."

Episode 679: There's an Archivist for That?! Part IV: Food and Drink Archives

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

Interview with Audrey Russek, Head of the Broadcast April 10, 2026. Transcript at "You might not be looking at the cookbook for the recipes, you might be looking at it to understand community."

Episode 678: The Front Door of the Library

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

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

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Guests: Alex McGee, Kirk Henderson, and Connor Lynch of the Georgia Tech Archives.

First broadcast September 22 2023.

Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/72861, Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=39916

"Pirates, really."

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