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

Guests: Amber Moore, Autumn Wilson, Cathy Miller, and Kendall Barksdale, representatives of the team working to process and digitize the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Collection at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library.

First broadcast August 12 2022.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/08/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-august-12-2022-the-joseph-and-evelyn-gibson-lowery-collection-episode-527/

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Guest Ann Kardos, Librarian at UMass-Amherst discusses her creative project "Unseen Labor."

First broadcast July 29, 2022

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-29-2022-unseen-labor-episode-526/

Transcript available.

First broadcast July 22 2022.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-22-2022-steal-this-show-episode-525/(opens in a new tab)

The LITS crew is joined by guest host Alison Reynolds to talk rare books and theft.

Transcript available.

Guest: Anu Moorthy of the Georgia Tech Library.

First broadcast July 15 2022.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-15-2022-tickets-and-tunnels-episode-524/(opens in a new tab)

Anu Moorthy, the new Electronic Resources Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library, discusses the ups and downs of her job.

Transcript available.

Guest: Mitsuko Ito of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech

First broadcast July 8 2022.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-8-2022-a-material-method-for-mental-health-episode-523/

A discussion of tapping, a mental-calming technique.

Transcript available.

Guest: Jamila Hastick, Electronic Services Librarian, Library of Parliament

It's Canada Day! Guest Jamila Hastick talks about what it's like to work as a librarian in the Canadian Library of Parliament/Bibliothèque du Parlement.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2022/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-july-1-2022-the-library-of-parliament-happy-canada-day-episode-522/(opens in a new tab)

Transcript available.

Guests: Kathy Makos (Smithsonian, retired) and Jenny Houlroyd (Georgia Tech)

What is an industrial hygienist? We speak to two industrial hygienists to find out how their profession can make libraries, archives, and other workplaces safer. And spoiler alert, industrial hygiene doesn't have anything to do with teeth.

Originally broadcast June 24, 2022.

Transcript available.

First broadcast June 10 2022.

The show crew discusses summer reading -- their own, other's, and Stephen King's.

Guests: Jason Aukerman and Carrie Cooper of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI.

First broadcast May 13 2022.

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The director and assistant director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies talk about the ins and outs of running a small research center.

Guests: Dr Cassidy Sugimoto, Chair of Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and Dr Thema Monroe-White, professor of Data Analytics at Berry College

Dr Sugimoto and Dr Monroe-White share their research into how scientific literature citation numbers are unequal among different racial and gender categories.

Transcript at: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66373

Playlist at:https://www.wrek.org/2022/04/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-apr-22-2022-who-are-you-citing-episode-518/