Episode 674: Centennial Summer

Episode 674: Centennial Summer

Author: Charlie Bennett February 20, 2026 Duration: 56:51

Guests: Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, Kirk Henderson, Exhibitions Manager, and Connor Lynch, Exhibits Associate at the Georgia Tech Library.

First broadcast February 20 2026. Transcript: https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80711

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"I don't need encouragment or assistance to reminisce about the 90s."


Tune into Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show, a weekly sonic adventure curated by host Charlie Bennett and a crew of librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library. This isn't your average library tour; it's a live, freewheeling mix where scholarly curiosity meets a killer playlist. Each Friday, they land on a theme-something sprawling and connective like memory, failure, or maps-and then let the conversation and records spin. You'll hear deep-cut interviews with fascinating minds, candid shop talk about how knowledge is organized and preserved, and a meticulously chosen hour of music that echoes and expands the central idea. The result is a unique podcast that feels like the best kind of late-night hang in the stacks, blending the texture of archival work with the raw energy of rock'n'roll radio. It explores the unexpected intersections of society, culture, and the technology of information itself, all through a lens that is both deeply informed and genuinely playful. Listen for the connections you never saw coming, the stories tucked away in special collections, and the soundtrack that ties it all together.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
Podcast Episodes
Episode 689: We Don't Have A National Library... Or Do We? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:41
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 Desc…
Episode 688: Discarding the Analytic Solution [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:12
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. Mich…
Episode 687: Clickbait [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:35
The show team discusses the 2013 blog post "The End of the Library" by M.G. Siegler, clickbait that argued that the economics of ebooks and the existence of the Internet meant that libraries had to change or disappear. F…
Episode 686: Get In The Car, It's Summer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:39
The show team has an unthemed conversation for this summer free cut. They discuss travelling to see art, Google Maps, having your assumptions tested, failure as growth, and if the phrase "get in the car, it's summer" has…
Episode 685: Multimodal Hamlet [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:45
Georgia Tech faculty members talk about experimenting with virtual reality tools in a composition course, students experiencing multimodal Hamlet, and assessing how best to teach the "To be or not to be" monologue. Audio…
Episode 684: Alt Text For Mathematics [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:02
Members of the Georgia Tech Library's Accessibility Community of Practice get into the weeds discussing alt text for mathematics in scholarly works. Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Libr…
Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:29
A Georgia Tech scholar from the College of Liberal Arts discusses the place of humanities in academia and how crisis is their natural habitat. Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Geo…
Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:08
A recovering academic discusses Russian dissident literature and why samizdat is not a monolithic genre. Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the L…
Episode 681: A Year Of Firsts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:58
For an Introduce Yourself show, a new but seasoned Georgia Tech librarian discusses his year of firsts in the profession. Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast…
Episode 680: Hard-Boiled Magnitizdat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:16
The librarian who founded and curates International Counterculture Archive at the Global Resources Center at George Washington University discusses hard-bolied magnitizdat (i.e. underground recordings in the Soviet Union…