Carefully Selected by Your Crack Staff of News Sleuths Column Editor: Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) Against the Grain V35#1 The Lost English Village By the end of the 20th century, there were scads of published reminiscences of lost village life. All...
And They Were There — Reports of Meetings 2022 Charleston Conference
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Learning Belongs in the Library — Developing and Delivering Identity Metadata: Authors and Publisher
Column Editor: David Parker (Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing; Phone: 201-673-8784) Against the Grain V35#1 We want to work in organizations, institutions, and businesses that acknowledges the diversity and richness that encompasses society. As...
Let’s Get Technical — Did the Academic Library Reach its Peak Effectiveness in the Late 1990s?
Part 1: Introduction and the Primacy of the Local Collection By Mark Dahl (Director of the Aubrey Watzek Library, Lewis and Clark College) Column Editors: Kyle Banerjee (Sr. Implementation Consultant, FOLIO Services) www.ebsco.com www.folio.org and Susan...
Biz of Digital — Playing Matchmaker: Connecting Subvention-Funded Authors With Our Institutional Repository
By Chelsee Dickson (Scholarly Communications Librarian, Kennesaw State University, 385 Cobb Avenue NW, Room 322, MD 1701, Kennesaw, GA 30144; Phone: 470-578-7639) and Rachel Schrauben Yeates (Institutional Repository Specialist, Kennesaw State University, 385...
If Rumors Were Horses
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Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/24/23
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/24/23
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...
Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/23/23
Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools GoodEReader reports that "The Writers Guild of America is proposing to allow its authors to employ ChatGPT and other AI tools to write scripts for television and movies. There are a few use cases that the Guild...
Sage wins Open Athens UX award 2023 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/22/23
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ATG Job Bank – Carnegie Mellon University – Liaison Librarian for Science and Engineering
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