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.

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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 XV of The GT Library Guidebook

First broadcast September 4 2026.

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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.

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"There may be no Pixies in the old country..."

The hosts of the library-themed WRFG Atlanta public-affairs show Radical Reference With Sister Sai talk about how the show started and their values, process, and plans for radical reference on the radio.

Guests: Saira Raza and Keeza Hameed, hosts of Radical Reference on WRFG Atlanta (and Emory librarians).

First broadcast on August 7 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81972

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"We're not the only game in town any more!"

In the third and final episode of an unofficial "Library of Congress" trilogy, catalogers from the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on Subfield V Retention discuss the Library of Congress's announcement that they have stopped using Subfield V and form subdivisions, e.g. "Mistaken identity--Juvenile drama."

Guests: Chloe Misorski, Head of Cataloging Services and Library Systems at Cleveland Museum of Art; Eduardo Fojo, Media Cataloger Librarian at Florida International University; and Deborah Tomaras, Metadata and Resource Management Librarian at Marist University.

First broadcast July 31 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81971

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"...a bit of the subject heading that tells you not what the item is about but what it is."

Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality."

Guests: Deborah Tomaras, Metadata and Resource Management Librarian at Marist University; Tina Gross, Metadata Analyst at University of Minnesota.

First broadcast July 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81968

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"We asked Deborah to explain why this quite common term, which has been around since the 1950s, and has literary warrant, was not accepted as a subject heading in 2024."

The show team, with the help of cataloger Sofia Slutskaya, discusses the Library of Congress and tries to answer the question, "We don't have a National Library... or do we?"

Guest: Sofia Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description at Emory University Libraries. Transcript at: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81867

First broadcast July 10, 2026.

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"As a cataloger, I need a more precise definition."

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

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"You are expected to use AI tools in this course."