Crossref: 2022 Public Data File of More Than 134 Million Metadata Records Now Available Citing a Crossref Blog Post by Patrick Polischuk, infoDOCKET notes that Crossref "released our first public data file, something we’ve turned into an annual affair supporting our...
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WorldCat quality efforts to enhance millions more records plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/13/22
WorldCat quality efforts to enhance millions more records Citing a press release by OCLC, Library Technology Guides notes that "The OCLC metadata quality team consistently improves WorldCat records to help libraries make their resources more accessible to users...
Partnership with Max Planck Society Marks Springer Nature’s Largest Open Access Book Deal to Date – Plus More ATG NEws & Announcements for 5/12/22
Partnership with Max Planck Society Marks Springer Nature’s Largest Open Access Book Deal to Date infoDOCKET reports that "Springer Nature has signed its largest institutional OA book deal with the Max Planck Society through the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). The...
ATG Job Bank: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) – Institutional Repository Outreach Librarian
Institutional Repository Outreach Librarian, UAB Libraries The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries seek an innovative and creative Institutional Repository Outreach Librarian to grow and maintain the libraries’ new Digital Commons repository, an open...
Business and Economic Book Sales in the US Reach 10-year High According to New Data From NPD Group – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/11/22
Business and Economic Book Sales in the US Reach 10-year High According to New Data From NPD Group According to this post cited by infoDOCKET "Business and economic print book sales in the U.S. continue to rise, reaching a 10-year high in the year ending April 23,...
ATG Quirkies: How Public Libraries Are Seeding America’s Gardens
How Public Libraries Are Seeding America’s Gardens is by Bridget Shirvell and it appears on the EATER website. This story was originally published on Civil Eats. "At the public library in Mystic, Connecticut, a card catalog that formerly stored book due dates now...
Wiley Signs Declaration on Research Assessment, Deepens Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/10/22
Wiley Signs Declaration on Research Assessment, Deepens Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment Library Technology Guides notes that "Wiley today announced it has signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which is a world-wide initiative...
“Charleston In Between” Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/9/22
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS Virtual ConferenceMay 11-12, 2022 NEW: Program Updates! The Charleston Conference is planning a very special “In Between” 2-day virtual conference event to explore important late-breaking developments that can’t wait until November...
ATG Quirkies: The Bug in the Computer Bug Story
The Bug in the Computer Bug Story appears in JSTOR Daily and is by Matthew Wills who has published in Poetry, Huffington Post, and Nature Conservancy Magazine, among other places, and blogs regularly about urban natural history at matthewwills.com. The First Computer...
ATG Job Bank – Williams College – Head of Collections & Systems
Head of Collections & Systems - Williams Libraries Williams Libraries seeks a collaborative and forward-thinking librarian to lead our department of Collections and Systems. We believe that our collections are a vital component of how we develop inclusive library...
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Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/26/22
Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive According to Caralee Adams and the Internet Archive Blog "For librarians who specialize in caring for music collections, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest technology and resources in the...
What Does My Library Need to Know about Ebook Laws? – Plus More ATG News & ANNOUNCEMENTS for 5/23/22
What Does My Library Need to Know about Ebook Laws? In this edition of American Libraries online column Letters of the Law , "Mary Minow and guest author Kyle K. Courtney discuss the library ebooks landscape and state-level efforts to institutionalize fair licensing...
ATG Quirkies: All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx is by Ed Simon, Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. It appears in JSTOR Daily. T. S. Eliot and Groucho MarxGetty...
Pre-Meeting Training sessions for SSP’s 44th Annual Meeting – plus more ATG News & Announcements for 5/20/22
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, AND WEBINARS If you live in or near the Chicago metropolitan area, you’re just a drive or train ride away from SSP’s pre-meeting sessions, to be held on the first day of their 44th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk Hotel on...
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/19/22
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award Citing a press release by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), infoDOCKET reports that The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are awarding five libraries...
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