On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian

Abstract

Twelve years ago, I created a radio show with Ameet Doshi, my friend and colleague at the Georgia Tech library. We wanted to do a library talk show on the college radio station, but we wanted to have some fun, too, so we decided to play rock music in between the library talk. We called it Lost in the Stacks (LITS). I thought I was adding a little rock ‘n’ roll fun to my Fridays with a student outreach project; I did not understand that I was embarking on a creative and scholarly venture that would inform my professional practice and identity in every way.