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

Episode 686: Get In The Car, It's Summer

First broadcast June 5 2026. Playlist [https://www.wrek.org/read/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-june-5-2026-get-in-the-car-its-summer-episode-686] "Yeah, it's not really working for me."

Episode 685: Multimodal Hamlet

Guests: Dr. Kelly Williams, Marion L Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech; Dr. Meryem Yilmaz Soylu, research scientist at the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U); Alison Valk, the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 29 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81791 [https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81791] Playlist [https://www.wrek.org/read/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-may-29-2026-multimodal-hamlet-episode-685] "That's as you like it."

Episode 684: Alt Text For Mathematics

Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 22 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81587 [https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81587] Playlist [https://www.wrek.org/read/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-may-21-2026-alt-text-for-mathematics-episode-684] "We're getting down in the weeds."

Episode 683: Crisis Is Our Natural Habitat

Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, discussing the place of humanities in academia. First broadcast May 8, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81266 [https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81266] Playlist [https://wrek.org/read/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-may-8-2026-crisis-is-our-natural-habitat-episode-683]. "The humanities, as a term, would not exist without substantial crisis in how human beings think about themselves."

Episode 682: Samizdat is Not a Monolith

Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/culture-of-samizdat-9781788313766/] First broadcast May 1 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81260 [https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81260] Playlist [https://www.wrek.org/read/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-may-1-2026-samizdat-is-not-a-monolith-episode-682] "Yoga?"