First broadcast January 8 2021.

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“What happened? 2020, that’s what happened.”

First broadcast December 25 2020.

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image: Cover of Code for America’s Qualitative Research Practice Guide

Guests: Aditi Joshi, Code for America Senior Qualitative Researcher, and Rebecca Blackiston, User Experience Strategist and Associate Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries

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First broadcast Nov 20, 2020

“It’s really important to recognize the intense emotions that research participants might be undergoing, and also the ways that creates vicarious trauma in the researchers themselves.”

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Guest: Stuart Gaetjens, Coordinatory of Technical Services at the Volpe Library, Tennessee Tech University

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First broadcast Nov 13, 2020

“Results were dramatic, and even worse than expected.”

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Guest: Robin Fay (georgiawebgurl)

First broadcast October 30 2020.

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“Dark.”

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image: still from Leiden Manifesto video produced by Kindea Labs

Guest: Dr Diana Hicks, Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, and lead author of the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/.

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First broadcast Oct 9, 2020

“These numbers do have consequences.”

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Guest: Dr Aisha Jones, archivist and professor at NC Central University, and author of The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program (2019, Rowman & Littefield).

Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=35035

First broadcast Oct 2, 2020

“I’ll still do my research in the stacks, because that’s where the truth lives.”

Image graphics by FMF design, i cons, and Fahmi. From Noun Project. Creative Commons CC-BY.

First broadcast Sept 18, 2020

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“I suspect anthropologists will look back to this time and say that the invention of the infinite scroll was a pivotal moment in human evolution…”

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