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07/29/2022

Unseen Labor – Simple Book Publishing

Today's at noon: Our guest, Ann Kardos of UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst Libraries will be talking about her creative metadata project, "Unseen Labor." Full info: https://openbooks.library.umass.edu/unseen-labor-exhibit/

Unseen Labor is an international library community-organizing embroidery project created by University of Massachusetts Amherst librarian Ann Kardos. Metadata work is not typically seen as creative work, but work that is guided by national standards, best practices, policies and guidelines in order....

10/29/2021

ENCORE Episode 350: Disrupting Mainstream History

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 350: Disrupting Mainstream History

Guests: Itza Carbajal (UT Austin School of Information), Sine Hwang Jensen (UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library), Irina Rogova (U Richmond library) & Jessea Young (Loyola Marymount U library).   First broadcast July 14 2017 Playlist at "Librarianship and archivy should be radical."

10/28/2021

Lost in the Stacks | Georgia Tech Library

Dearest Lost in the Stacks fans and followers on Facebook! FB wants to rebrand and create the metaverse, and we have had enough of their shenanigans. The show crew is all in agreement that we want no more part of Facebook, so we will no longer update or interact with this page. We're leaving it up because one of you asked that we do so.

You can find us at a couple sites: http://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/ or http://library.gatech.edu/lostinthestacks/

Lost in the Stacks THE ONE & ONLY RESEARCH LIBRARY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RADIO SHOW & PODCAST Broadcasting on WREK Atlanta, each show features an hour of music, interviews, and library talk united by a common theme. Ameet and Charlie from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour...

10/25/2021

Lost in the Stacks

Hello all you Lost in the Stacks fans and followers on Facebook! FB prepping the world for its "rebrand and create the metaverse" pivot reminded us that we have this Page. We do nothing on this Page, and the show crew is all in agreement that we want no more part of it. So we're taking it down. This page should be gone in a week. You can find us at a couple sites, like http://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/ or http://library.gatech.edu/lostinthestacks/

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-23rd-the-human-library-episode-348/

10/22/2021

Episode 503: Getting on my CASE: Librarians and the CASE Act

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 503: Getting on my CASE: Librarians and the CASE Act

Guest: Kate Dickson, UNCC Library Broadcast October 22, 2021 Playlist at "We still don't know how this is going to play out, and what the rules are going to be." Image credit: David Wagner, CC-0 (public domain)

10/22/2021

Lost in the Stacks

Today at noon: Tune in to hear Kate Dickson of the UNCC Library help untangle the CASE Act, including what it means to librarians. Listen live at noon on https://wrek.org, or catch the podcast this afternoon at https://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-23rd-the-human-library-episode-348/

10/21/2021

Hello all you Lost in the Stacks fans and followers on Facebook! The recent news about about FB wanting to change its name and “build the metaverse” reminded us that we had a Page on this site with which we do very, very little. So we're taking it down. This page should be gone in a couple weeks -- please let us know if you would be bereft without it, and we will work out some other contact plan with you!

10/15/2021

Episode 348: The Human Library

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 348: The Human Library

First broadcast June 23 2017. Playlist at "Fred said it was trademarked."

10/11/2021

What Science Fiction Got Wrong...and Right! (and how you make the future)

On October 14, 2021, Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the GT Library will celebrate 50 years of science fiction at our institute with a special event featuring award-winning space historian, science fiction publisher, and time traveler Gideon Marcus, whom you might have heard on the show last week:

50 Years if Science Fiction at Georgia Tech continues with an exciting lecture by Gideon Marcus of the podcast, Galactic Journey!

10/08/2021

Episode 502: On the Trip

Lost in the Stacks, episode 502: On the Trip with Gideon Marcus of Galactic Journey, where The Traveler and his team live in 1966, regularly commuting 55 years into the future to write about then-contemporary science fiction and fantasy, particularly fiction found in magazines.

Guest: Gideon Marcus of Galactic Journey. First broadcast October 8 2021 and 1966. Playlist at "Are you a traveler of both time and space?"

10/01/2021

ENCORE Episode 347: 129,864,880

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 347: 129,864,880

Guest: Laura Burtle, Associate Dean for Scholarly Communications and Digital Library Services at GSU First broadcast June 16 2017. Playlist at "I realized libraries need lawyers."

09/24/2021

ENCORE Episode 346: "The Freedome Library"

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 346: "The Freedome Library"

Guests:  Coston Dickenson and Andres, graduate students in the Georgia Tech College of Design. First broadcast June 09 2017 Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/2017/06/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-june-9th-the-freedome-library-episode-346/

09/17/2021

ENCORE Episode 345: Squaring the Circle

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 345: Squaring the Circle

First broadcast June 2 2017. Playlist at "I can sacrifice some of my values..."

09/10/2021

Episode 501: The Fossil Librarian

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 501: The Fossil Librarian

Guest: Kallie Moore, Collections Manager at the University of Montana Paleontology Center, and host of PBS's "Eons". First broadcast Sept 10, 2021. Playlist at: "To this day, my life revolves around ancient life and things that have been dead for millenia." Image credit: University of Montana

09/10/2021

WREK Atlanta 91.1FM – Georgia Tech's Student Radio

Today we talk to Fossil Librarian Kallie Moore about curating fossils, the Eons series, and we get into some instrumental ROCK. Listen live at noon on https://www.wrek.org/, or catch the podcast this afternoon at https://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/

WREK is the entirely student operated and engineered radio station of Georgia Tech. We broadcast 24/7 with 100,000 watts of quality, diverse programming.

09/03/2021

Episode 500: The End of the Line

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 500: The End of the Line

First broadcast September 3 2021. Playlist at "I understand that I'm being deposed."

08/27/2021

Episode 499: Recruiting from Retail

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 499: Recruiting from Retail

Guests: Tina Erikson, Jessica Glomb and Max Maller from the University of Chicago Library Playlist at: Originally broadcast Aug 27, 2021 Image credit: jrissman via Wikimedia commons, CC-BY-SA

08/20/2021

Episode 498: Books in a Blender

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 498: Books in a Blender

Guest: Mark Herschberg First broadcast August 20 2021. Playlist at "We're going to take what is in the book, blow it out from the pages..."

08/13/2021

Episode 497: The Unbearable Uncertainty of Classics

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 497: The Unbearable Uncertainty of Classics

First broadcast August 13 2021. Playlist at "Many people were surprised that the book Goodnight Moon wasn’t on the list."

08/06/2021

ENCORE of Episode 344: Engineering the Hidden Library

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE of Episode 344: Engineering the Hidden Library

"When our service stops being hidden, it means that we are not doing something well." Guests: Alexis Linoski and Sonya Slutskaya of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 19, 2017. Playlist at

07/30/2021

Episode 496: Standing Together

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 496: Standing Together

image from Guest: Colleen Marquis, University of Michigan, Flint First broadcast July 30, 2021 Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=35940 "Being in a union together will just make it easier for us to advocate for one another, and to communicate and be in solidarity together."

07/23/2021

Episode 495: Retractions

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 495: Retractions

Guest: Ivan Oransky, co-founder of First broadcast July 23, 2021 Playlist at "We were off by an order of magnitude in the number of retractions we thought there were."

07/16/2021

Episode 494: A Cure for the Summertime Blues

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 494: A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First broadcast July 16 2021. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=35901 "Which, if I may be frank, was a mixed bag at best."

07/02/2021

Episode 493: Telling the Technical Services Story

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 493: Telling the Technical Services Story

Guest: Kimberley Edwards and Tricia Mackenzie of George Mason University Libraries. First broadcast July 2 2021. Playlist at "What part of your library department could use some better PR?"

07/02/2021

University Libraries

Today’s Lost in the Stacks features an interview with Kimberley Edwards and Tricia Mackenzie, the co-editors of the new ALA book Telling the Technical Services Story: Communicating Value. https://www2.gmu.edu/academics/university-libraries

Sub Navigation Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs Colleges and Schools Mason Online Study Abroad Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation Internships Teaching and Learning Accessibility Resources University Libraries Executive and Professional Education INTO Mason Hours and Locations Icon Icon...

07/02/2021

Telling the Technical Services Story: Communicating Value | ALA Store

Today at noon: Lost in the Stacks, episode 493: Telling the Technical Services Story, all about a book full of ways to communicate the department’s value to the campus, the community, and even the profession. https://www.alastore.ala.org/tellstory

The real-world initiatives and straightforward advice in this collection will embolden technical services managers and administrators to demonstrate the value of their work to stakeholders throughout their organization.Technical Services isn’t the hidden discipline it once was. Even so, despite al...

06/25/2021

ENCORE Episode 342: The Diversity Paradigm

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 342: The Diversity Paradigm

Guest: David James Hudson of the University of Guelph. First broadcast May 5 2017. Playlist at "I had to look at how library and information studies talk about race."

06/18/2021

Episode 492: That Really Sticks in my Craw

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 492: That Really Sticks in my Craw

image by popcornarts, CC-BY, via the Noun Project First broadcast on June 18, 2021 Playlist at: "I'm already feeling the pressure rising into my craw."

06/04/2021

Episode 491: Atlanta Eats

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 491: Atlanta Eats

Guest: David Newhoff, author of , and author of the blog . First broadcast May 14, 2021. Playlist at: "That tension began from the moment that photography became available...is this just a mechanical tool that records facts, or is there something expressive that the photographer does?"

05/28/2021

Episode 490: After the Rain

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 490: After the Rain

First broadcast May 28 2021. Playlist at "And normally I'm an optimist..."

05/21/2021

Episode 489: Atomic Tunes

The new episode is ATOMIC TUNES, all about the new book by Tim and Joanna Smolko. How did the Cold War influence popular music in America and Britain? Why aren't there more anti-nuke songs these days?

Guests: Tim and Joanna Smolko of UGA. First broadcast May 21 2021. Playlist at "Hey, these are all Cold War songs!"

05/21/2021

Atomic Tunes

Our show today at noon EDT is "Atomic Tunes," all about the new book by Tim Smolko and Joanna Smolko discussing how popular music portrayed and protested the Cold War. Tune in to WREK 91.1 FM or stream from wrek.org

https://iupress.org/9780253024466/atomic-tunes/

What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bo...

05/14/2021

Episode 488: Who Invented Oscar Wilde?

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 488: Who Invented Oscar Wilde?

Guest: David Newhoff, author of , and author of the blog . First broadcast May 14, 2021. Playlist at: "That tension began from the moment that photography became available...is this just a mechanical tool that records facts, or is there something expressive that the photographer does?"

05/14/2021

Home - The Illusion of More

Today's guest, David L. Newhoff, is a copyright advocate who authors the blog Illusion of More: https://illusionofmore.com/

05/14/2021

Who Invented Oscar Wilde?

Today we're interviewing David L. Newhoff about his book "Who Invented Oscar Wilde: The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright:" https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640121584/

In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York pho...

04/30/2021

Episode 487: Empathy Bytes VIP

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 487: Empathy Bytes VIP

Guests: The First broadcast April 30 2021. "It's a win all around!"

04/23/2021

ENCORE Episode 340: Smart Cities, Smart Libraries

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : ENCORE Episode 340: Smart Cities, Smart Libraries

Part 1 of the Smart Cities series. Guest: Dr. Gabriel Morley of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. First broadcast April 14 2017. Playlist at "Think about how the library integrates into the community."

04/16/2021

Episode 486: Assessment as Craft

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show : Episode 486: Assessment as Craft

Image: Patrick Lindenberg via Unsplash   First broadcast April 16, 2021 Playlist at "What is the difference between use and re-use? We've debated this literally for years..."  

04/16/2021

EG-V3-0

"GLAMR institutions ... can leverage their collective power in the marketplace to influence vendors to implement changes on the topic of privacy and other areas." This is from a draft of D-CRAFT's "Ethical Considerations & Guidelines for the Assessment of Use & Reuse of Digital Content," available here: http://ow.ly/HXem50EpGK5

Ethical considerations and guidelines for the assessment of use and reuse of digital content Drafted by the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT) Project Team and Consultants Finalized on November 30, 2020 Here is a refresher on the Commenting feature on the Google Docum...

04/16/2021

D-CRAFT 2019-2021 - Digital Library Federation Content Reuse Working Group

On today's episode we talk about the Institute of Museum and Library Services -funded Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT) project, which curates resources and guidance for library practitioners to assess reuse and impact of digital materials: https://reuse.diglib.org/home/d-craft/

About Starting in July 2019, the AIG Content Reuse Working Group initiated the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT) project, funded generously by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)’s National Leadership Grants for Libraries (LG-36-19-0036-19). This website ...