The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob is by Robert McCrum, an associate editor of the Observer and author of six novels and a number non-fiction titles. It appears on the LITERARY HUB website. "Shakespeare’s world connects with our world through...
New Reboot SEO Company Study pertaining to Social Media Content Removal Statistics
The conversation surrounding stricter monitoring of social media platforms led online experts at Reboot SEO Company to analyse social media transparency reports and reveal which social media platforms have had the biggest increase in removed content as a result of...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 107: Using the Unbundling Power of Unsub Responsibly: Unveiling Its Assumptions and Unpacking Its Defaults
Audio from the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; Jason Price, Research and Scholarly Communication Director, SCELC, and John McDonald, Director, Product Management, Analytics, EBSCO...
ATG! The Podcast-Episode 102-Views from the Penthouse Suite: Interview with Stephen Barr
In today’s episode we feature an interview with Stephen Barr, President of SAGE International. This interview is part of the popular “Views from the Penthouse Suite” series and was conducted by Tom Gilson, Associate Editor, Against the Grain, and Matthew Ismail,...
v32 #4 September 2020 Full Issue
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NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
ATG Job Bank for 2/5/23
NORTH Dean of the Library - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digital Content Management Archivist for Institutional Collections - Harvard University Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II, Falvey Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Public Services...
CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 2/3/23
CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information CCC is unveiling key findings from “Information Seeking and Consumption Study,” which is based on data gathered by Outsell. They include the following: [P]otential instances of unlicensed sharing per...
Library of Congress Opens New Web Archive Collection Documenting Protests Against Racism … Plus MORE ATG News & Announcements for 2/2/23
Library of Congress Opens New Web Archive Collection Documenting Protests Against Racism & Learn About LC’s Black History Month Programs Citing the Library of Congress Newsroom, infoDOCKET reports "A new web archive collection from the Library of Congress...
arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools – PLUS MORE ATG NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 2/1/23
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....