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

An academic librarian who specializes in experimental, public, and innovative scholarly communication discusses professional development, leadership roles, the non-auteur theory of creating public work, and motherhood.

Guest: A.M. Alpin, Librarian for Creative and Public Scholarship at NYU Libraries.

First broadcast October 16 2026.

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"Follow in my footsteps!"

For Banned Books Week 2026, the show team plus guest-host Jordan Moore (User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library) chat about book bans, challenges, dangerous knowledge, and what we talk about when talk about banned books.

First broadcast October 9 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/82556

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"What do you mean 'we'?"

For this episode of the GT Library Guidebook series, the show team give a short history of the computer labs in the Georgia Tech Library and talks about computing in the library, particularly the lack of actual computers and the reliance on docking stations.

Part XVII of The GT Library Guidebook

First broadcast October 2 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/82484

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"What is a thin client?"

An Atlanta archivist discusses her work at Georgia State University and AUC, featuring hip-hop, pop culture, and best friends that you never meet.

Guest: Brittany Newberry, Community Engagement Archivist at the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library.

First broadcast September 25 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/82289

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"Never in my life did I think I was going to get to do something I enjoyed outside of work."

For an Introduce Yourself show, a systems librarian discusses the many facets of his professional identity and the points of intersection for librarianship and information technology in his job.

Guest: Thomas Waters, Library Systems Technologist at the Georgia Tech Library.

First broadcast September 18 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/82255

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"... in the center of the Venn diagram between librarianship and information technology."

A professor of AI from Georgia Tech joins the show to discuss synthetic data, AI training on its own output, and other potential conundrums in the ongoing saga of AI in the sciences.

Guest: Dr. Mark Riedl of the School of Interactive Computing, Director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, and Gitesh Ramamurthy Endowed Professor of AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

First broadcast September 11 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81994

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"I think I'm going to try to convince you that some of things that people are worried about right are maybe further off in the future or maybe not something we have to worry about right now."

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 XVI of The GT Library Guidebook

First broadcast September 4 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81991

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"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.

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"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

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"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

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