Benda, Chris2025-09-242025-09-242017ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee. “Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication1,” June 24, 2003. http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies. Altman, Michael J. “Podcasting Religious Studies.” Religion 45, no. 4 (2015): 573–84. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.1055668. Benda, Chris, and Brad Ost. “Author Interviews Panel: Faculty Involvement via Self-Promotion.” American Theological Library Association Summary of Proceedings 66 (2012): 212–22.https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6067Since May 2010, I have been conducting interviews with faculty members affiliated with the Divinity School and the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University. Those interviews have centered on recent publications – mostly books – by those faculty; they last anywhere from half an hour to an hour and a half, and all are freely available from the library Web site and the university's institutional repository. In May 2016 I started a second series of interviews, this one focusing on open access publications (so far, journal articles). These interviews tend to be shorter; all of them are also available online, along with copies of the publications discussed. Topics for both series of interviews are wide-ranging but tend to be religious/theological or philosophical in nature and have included discussions of books concerned with various aspects of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In this presentation, I will talk about why and how I do the interviews, difficulties encountered during the interview process, feedback received (including impressions from interviewees), benefits of the interviews, and future directions.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttp://2017.ifla.org/open accessReligious studiesinterviewsscholarly communicationuniversity facultyacademic libraries