Against the Grain - The Podcast

Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals.

Against the Grain - The Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Annual Reviews, with 328 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Annual Reviews hosts Against the Grain - The Podcast, a education show with 328 episodes published.

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  Episode #331

  ATGthePodcast 331 - A Conversation with Georgios Papadopoulos, Chairman and Founder, Atypon

  Aug 17, 202658 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Georgios Papadopoulos , Chairman and Founder, Atypon. Georgios was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and says he started out wanting to study astrophysics, but a physicist talked him into studying math instead. In 1983, he had a professor that came from the U.S. who taught two classes in computer science: numerical analysis and computer language; Georgios was fascinated by it and decided to become a computer scientist. He came to the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar to earn a PhD in computer science from NYU. After graduation, He returned to Greece to fulfill the requirement of the Fulbright Scholarship, serving in the Greek Navy for two years as a secretary to the commander in chief of the Navy school and teaching English at the school. After his service ended, he returned to the U.S. to work in software, eventually working at WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) with Brewster Kahle before founding Atypon in Silicon Valley in 1996, a publishing platform currently hosting approximately 40% of scholarly research content. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/x6CZ_vBdByQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/papadopoulosgeorgios/ Twitter: Keyword s: #PublishingTech #HigherEd #InformationProfessionals #InformationScience #SoftwareEngineering #AcademicLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #335

  ATGthePodcast 330 - A Conversation with Russell Michalak, Library Director, Goldey-Beacom College, and Founding Partner, Inclusive Knowledge Solutions

  Aug 9, 202644 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Russell Michalak , Library Director, Goldey-Beacom College, and Founding Partner, Inclusive Knowledge Solutions. Russell has been immersed in libraries throughout his life. His mother was a librarian, and he kept coming back to librarianship despite an initial rebellion to pursue a library career. He has worked in libraries of all different sizes, budgets and resources over the last 20 years. He also has a background in history and says history is important to study as it is present now in everything we do and provides context for current events, government, and politics and also helps when working with people to have an understanding of where people come from and learning empathy for how people come to different places. In this conversation, Russell talks with Michael about a birthday gift he received at 10 years old that helped shape his career, the evolution of Goldey-Beacom College, and the challenges and innovations in library culture there. He also shares insights on how he sees the role of AI in libraries, the importance of building relationships between libraries and faculty, and the need for AI literacy among students. He says the democratization of access to AI tools and fostering a positive library culture are both very important. Social Media : The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/B4a4jz1Gg_U LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellmichalak/ Twitter: Keyword s: #AILiteracy #AIInLibraries #Access #LibraryCulture #LibraryInnovation #GenAI #LibraryResources #ProblemSolvers #InformationProfessionals #InformationScience #AcademicLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #HistoryMatters #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #329

  ATGthePodcast 329 - A Conversation with Orland Hoeber, Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina; Founder, Dilex Search

  Aug 3, 20261h 3mS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Orland Hoeber , Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, at University of Regina; Founder, Dilex Search. Orland says from an early age, he has always been interested in problem solving, trying to make sense of things and understand how things worked. He gravitated towards computing slowly, starting off in science-based disciplines and a degree in mathematics. He moved away from mathematics, which he says was strict and precise with structured rules, to computer science for an outlet to leverage his creativity, which opened the opportunity for doing creative problem solving, and he earned his graduate degrees in computer science. In this interview, Orland talks with Michael about searching, the library reference desk, and searching within GenAI. He has done research into human-computer interaction, specifically searching, and has recently launched a new search tool, Dilex, for saving searches between desktop and mobile devices. He says there is a gap between what a user needs and what is being provided, and for the last eight to ten years, he has been working in the realm of digital libraries helping people find information in libraries when their search tasks are complex in nature. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/jtq-yM7DIX4 Social Media : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/orland-hoeber/ Twitter: Keyword s: #DigitalLibraries #DigitalTransformation #KnowledgeManagement #ComputerScience #GenAI #LibraryResources #AcademicResearch #ProblemSolvers #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #327

  ATGthePodcast 327 - A Conversation with Steve Smith, AI Gateway and MCP Pilot Advisory for Scholarly Publishers

  Jul 27, 202646 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Steve Smith , AI Gateway and MCP Pilot Advisory for Scholarly Publishers. Steve has enjoyed a wide-ranging academic publishing career, with half spent in book publishing and half spent in journal publishing, and has held senior roles at AIP Publishing, Frontiers, the American Psychological Association, and Wiley. But, before Steve began his unexpected career in publishing, he studied philosophy at McGill University, earned a PhD in mathematical logic; and he refers to himself as a "frustrated philosopher." In this conversation, Steve shares his journey into academic publishing, his insights on the evolution of publishing, particularly in the context of AI and digital transformation, emphasizing the need for publishers to adapt to new technologies and changing reader expectations. He talks with Michael about the importance of structured knowledge and metadata in the age of AI, arguing that the future of publishing lies in moving beyond traditional formats to embrace knowledge as a service. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/zY6rK5GhYA0 Social Media : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsmith2/ Keyword s: #DigitalTransformation #KnowledgeManagement #AcademicIntegrity #PublishingIntegrity #metadata #AIInPublishing #FutureOfPublishing #PublishingStrategy #ScholarlyPublishing #LibraryResources #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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  Episode #327

  ATGthePodcast 327 - A Conversation with Ben Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School

  Jul 20, 202659 minS9

  Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ben Lee , Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School. Ben initially trained as an astrophysicist with a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, but he isn't out there looking for asteroids these days. He is currently an editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly and teaches an MLIS course. He says moving from telescope pipelines and understanding all the questions around how astronomers make catalogs of stars and celestial objects out of images isn't too dissimilar from questions around OCRing large-scale document collections. Ben also talks with Michael about how his grandmother survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and the time he spent after college in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in their archive, and digital questions led him to apply for a computer science program. He also talks with Michael about creating Newspaper Magazine , an archive of documentation of hundreds of millions of pages pertaining to survivors and victims of the Holocaust. Michael presented at the CNI Fall Conference on AI and Libraries, and says he believes fully open sciences is the best way forward and really our only way forward if we are to do this right. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/sDOn4MMuVOk Social Media : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ Keyword #KnowledgePreservation #ProblemSolver #Access #Research #ResearchTools #LearningResources #EdTechTools #LibraryResources #InformationProfessionals #AcademicLibraries #career #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #PublishingIssues #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

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