Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews

Dr. Eli Jamison is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Management Department of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She dropped by the virtual studio to tell Kira and Joe about her course on the economics and cultural aesthetics of the comic book industry.

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.

Andi Ogier is the Assistant Dean and Director of Data Services in the Libraries.  Kira and Joe spoke with her in early 2021, following her promotion several months earlier to the level of Assistant Dean.  The conversation was the first 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.

Anthony Wright de Hernandez is the Community Archivist with Special Collections and University Archives in the Virginia Tech Libraries. He also hosts a program on the Libraries’ twitch channel, entitled Archival Adventures.  Anthony spoke with Kira and Joe early spring semester of 2021.

In 2020, the University Libraries launched its Twitch channel to share live-streamed original programming produced in the University Libraries studios network.  Among the inaugural programs, The Role of Play stood out for its unique celebration of table-top role playing games and classic literature.  Two of its creators, Jonathan Bradley and Alice Rogers joined Kira and Joe in the winter of 2020 to talk about the motivation for the project and to speak to some of the highlights from the games they had thus far hosted.

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.

In November 2020, Kira and Joe welcomed Exhibit Curator & Learning Environments Librarian Scott Fralin into the virtual studio to talk about how limited operations during Covid-19 have presented the opportunity to explore designing and building Libraries exhibits entirely within virtual spaces.  Scott is a good friend of the Stacks on Stacks program, a frequent guest, and one of the original hosts of the show.

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.

Rhonda Morgan is the Executive Director of the Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation.  Like everyone else, the BM&CF had to close its physical spaces to the public in March of 2020.  And like everyone else, they had to figure out a way to keep going.  Rhonda joined Kira and Joe in the fall of 2020 to talk about some of the ways the museum and foundation have sustained a sense of community and a practice of engagement through the challenges of the pandemic.

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.

Nina Ha is the Director of the Asian Cultural Engagement Center at Virginia Tech.  She joined Kira and Joe in the fall of 2020 to speak about how the center was adapting to Covid-19 shutdown and limited operations, as well as some of the unique challenges facing her community.  Dr. Ha was scheduled to join us live in the spring during the show that was to air the week of the original campus closure. Seven months later, we finally got it together enough to resume welcoming guests to the program.  

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.