Periodical Radio is a series of 34 interviews with editors of magazines and journals conducted October 2006 through July 2009. Although I’d originally intended Periodical Radio to continue indefinitely, it’s now a completed series.

Transcripts and mp3 files of all the interviews are at http://faculty.strose.edu/blacks/PeriodicalRadio.htm. This page includes a PDF file that compiles the transcripts of all the interviews (287 pages worth!). Of course I’m biased, but I believe the interviews are a valuable set of primary source material about magazine and journal publishing during the transition from print to online. If you think your patrons might benefit from a hard copy, please go ahead and print one out for your library. The PDF includes a copyright statement that explicitly encourages that. Copying the PDF to your home server is also fine.

A summary of the interviews is published in “Editors’ Perspectives on Current Topics in Serials,” Serials Librarian 57(3), Oct. 2009, p.199-222. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a915325642 . I’m embarrassed to say that all the URLs cited in that article are dead. But the cited interviews can all be found at  http://faculty.strose.edu/blacks/PeriodicalRadio.htm.

Steve Black

Serials & Reference Librarian

Neil Hellman Library

The College of Saint Rose

432 Western Ave.

Albany, NY 12203

(518) 458-5494

blacks@strose.edu