Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews

Jason Higgins is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Oral History for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. Jason sat with Kira and Joe to talk about his work recording and studying oral history narratives given by military veterans, and about how this experience will inform his research and pedagogy while in residence.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Sylvester Johnson is the director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities. He is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of technology, race, religion, and national security.  He is also assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech and executive director of the university’s Tech for Humanity initiative. Sylvester joined Joe in the studio to discuss Vox Humanities, his podcast focusing on the advancement of human centered knowledge. Vox Humanities is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Bill Ingram is the Assistant Dean and Director of Information Technologies in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.  He spoke with Kira and Joe about the importance of IT in the development of academic libraries, and about the way in which technological developments have effect workflows and organizational strategies throughout the Libraries. This conversation with Bill continues a series on Libraries Administration that Stacks on Stacks hosts have been producing throughout the year.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Lee Vinsel is an Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.  He is the Author of The Innovation Delusion (2020, with Andrew L. Russel) and Moving Violations (2019).  Lee joins Kira and Joe in the studio to preview Peoples & Things, his new podcast about human life with technology.  Peoples & Things is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Tyler Walters is the Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.  In an attempt to open a window onto the arc of evolution for academic libraries in general, and the strategic vision for Virginia Tech Libraries specifically, Kira and Joe sat down to talk with the big boss himself.  The conversation with Tyler continues a series on Libraries Administration begun during Season One: The Pandemic Tapes.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Description: Trevor Finney and Jonathan Bradley join Kira and Joe to talk about their work on the Virtual Sculpture Garden, a virtual reality experience, in which visitors may explore 3D art and and share their own.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program, on 90.7 FM WUVT, most Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm.

Season One: The Pandemic Tapes is a collection of all the remotely recorded interview segments broadcast during a period of remote and asynchronous production of the Stacks on Stacks radio program between Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.

Ren Harman, who has been recording oral history narratives for VT Stories over the last several years, has recently joined the University Libraries team as an Oral History Projects Archivist.  Kira and Joe spoke with him in April of 2021 about his work and what this move may mean for the Libraries and for Oral History at Virginia Tech.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program, on 90.7 FM WUVT, most Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm.

Season One: The Pandemic Tapes is a collection of all the remotely recorded interview segments broadcast during a period of remote and asynchronous production of the Stacks on Stacks radio program between Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.

Jessica Brabble was a Masters Candidate in the Department of History when she spoke with Kira and Joe in the spring of 2021.  She was one of the leading planners of the annual conference hosted at Virginia Tech by the History Graduate Student Association, The Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Conference.  The conference had just wrapped up, and she joined Kira and Joe to talk about her work and about planning and running the Bertoti Conference as a fully virtual event.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program, on 90.7 FM WUVT, most Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm.

Season One: The Pandemic Tapes is a collection of all the remotely recorded interview segments broadcast during a period of remote and asynchronous production of the Stacks on Stacks radio program between Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.

Patrick Tomlin is the Assistant Dean and Director of Learning Environments in the Libraries.  Kira and Joe spoke with him in the spring of 2021, following his promotion several months earlier to the level of Assistant Dean.  The conversation was the second in a planned series engaging strategic organization among administrative roles in the University Libraries.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program, on 90.7 FM WUVT, most Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm.

Season One: The Pandemic Tapes is a collection of all the remotely recorded interview segments broadcast during a period of remote and asynchronous production of the Stacks on Stacks radio program between Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.

Corinne Guimont (Digital Scholarship Coordinator in the VT Libraries) and Alex Kinnaman (Digital Preservation Coordinator in the VT Libraries) visited the virtual recording studio in March of 2021 to talk about the recently completed annual conference for the Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium.  They talked about both the challenges and the opportunities presented by the move to situate the meeting within entirely online spaces.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program, on 90.7 FM WUVT, most Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm.

Season One: The Pandemic Tapes is a collection of all the remotely recorded interview segments broadcast during a period of remote and asynchronous production of the Stacks on Stacks radio program between Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.