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Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.

the librarian interview podcast

A collection of voices gathered from the world of the lesser represented & marginalized populations in media or media preservation. These voices belong to women, queer folx, the trans community and people of co...

High tech, low budget. Library technology, FOSS, and cyberpunk.

Artifactual is a podcast about archival material -- who made it, who saved it, and why. It was inspired by the documentary work we do at 1895 Films, where we often come across amazing pieces of archival materia...

Archivists in conversation with archivists, discussing their work and passions and how they care for the historical record and present the storied past. Hosted by husband and wife team Karen Trivette and Geof ...

Preserve This Podcast is an Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded project hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) to help podcasters protect their work against the threats of digital decay.

This podcast is a collection of audio stories from the libraries, archives, and museums of New York City. It is brought to you by the Metropolitan New York Library Council, where the libraries and archives of N...

Join the Library of Congress’s Innovator-in-Residence Jer Thorp as he explores the 165 million items in the library’s collection and speaks with the librarians, archivist and technologists who try to make sense...

Build your own Netflix with free, open source software and the Cyberpunk Librarian. Join Dan for part three of the cyberpunk community library series and learn...

Guest: Matt Spitzer of The Center for Open Science. First broadcast July 21 2017. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2017/07/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-july-21st-trust-but-verify-episode-351/ "...

Sara Goek, Program Manager at the Public Library Association and Linda Hofschire, Director of the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL) discuss the 2021 Public Library Staff & Diversity Survey and "Be...

Steve chats with Elena Lopez, Bharat Mehra, and Maggie Caspe, editors of A Librarian’s Guide to Engaging Families in Learning, about how they first got involved with libraries, the benefits of family engagement...

Guests: Dr. Lisa Yaszek of the School of Literature, Media, and Culture at Georgia Tech, Grace Agnew of Rutgers University Libraries, and Catherine Manci of the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast December 1...

How have 41 prop vehicles from the James Bond movie franchise ended up in a hangar in rural Illinois? Sounds like a question for Factual. Arti Factual.From You Only Live Twice and Dr. No, to GoldenEye and Skyfa...

Guest: Mack Freeman, Head of Public Services at the Georgia Tech Library Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=36718 "There is still growth that happens [in the library], and that experience is worthwhile. We g...

Steve chats with Meredith Farkas, faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon, about her path to librarianship, the concept of slow librarianship, avoiding techno-saviorism, and why she ended her ...

Guests: The Doshi & Reddy Butalla crew, JJ O'Brien, Jonathan Walker, and April Rogers First broadcast November 25 2011. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=36660 "Research is an essential part of any kind of t...

In the 1960s, astronaut fever turned a tiny Florida beach town into a Cold War-era tourist trap.  A lounge act called the We Three Trio capitalized on this trend, earning their fifteen minutes of fame with a so...