by Nancy Herther | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog Posts, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries In an article titled “Wikipedia as Public Scholarship: Communicating Our Impact Online,” Elizabeth K. Rush & Sarah J. Tracy studied the current options for...
by Nancy Herther | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog Posts, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries While studying at the University of Arizona Graduate Library School in 1992, Rick Gates conducted monthly Internet Hunts as a way for people (largely students) to...
by Nancy Herther | Jan 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Vincent Van Gogh Letter To anyone who remembers being criticized for illegible writing, the disappearance of cursive is perhaps less of an issue. For...
by Nancy Herther | Jan 4, 2021 | Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Writing has been with us for thousands of years in some form – and today with technologies giving us more venues for formal communication – the written word is...
by Nancy Herther | Dec 14, 2020 | Against the Grain, Blog Posts, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries “It’s never been a better time to be a writer –or aspire to become one,” Glenn Leibowitz wrote in a 2017 Inc...
by Nancy Herther | Nov 5, 2020 | Against the Grain, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries “The opportunities for mapping are as endless as the creativity of the researcher(s) and participant(s) who embrace the method,” Adrienne Colborne and...
by Nancy Herther | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog Posts, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and former Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) From early prehistoric cave art to the 6th century BC Babylonian Map of the World to William Playfair’s 18th century presentation...
by Nancy Herther | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog Posts, Charleston Conference Blog, Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and former Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) Rather than wait for more information or the next steps in this governmental process, ATG has asked one of the acknowledged legal experts on...
by Nancy Herther | Oct 7, 2020 | Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, NewsChannel Originals
By: Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and former Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) “When Americans fear the future, they turn to antitrust action,” David Streitfeld wrote in a 2019 article for the NY Times. “It happened in...
by Nancy Herther | Sep 28, 2020 | Full Text Articles, In the Spotlight, Latest News, NewsChannel Originals
by Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) A woman looks at magazines displayed at a kiosk in Zurich March 16 , 2015. One of Switzerland’s two big supermarkets, Coop, is to stop selling...