by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Links to previous reports: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day Four: Saturday, March 18 The final day of the conference was more lightly attended than the rest of the week, but sessions were still going strong and were still well...
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Don’s Conference Notes- R2R: The 2023 Researcher to Reader Conference
By Donald T. Hawkins The 2023 R2R hybrid conference in London on February 21-22 drew about 200 attendees, of which about 50 attended online. It featured a mix of several types of sessions: plenaries, panel discussions, workshops, and lightning talks. According to the...
ACRL 2023: Day Three
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub See the previously published reports from Day 1 and Day 2. Day 3: Friday, March 17 Due to travel on Saturday and a day of rest of Sunday, the report from Friday is coming out a bit later than usual! Day 3 of ACRL was...
ACRL 2023: Day Two
By Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub (Link to report from Day One) Day Two: Thursday, March 16 Thursday was technically the second day of the conference but the first full day of conference content. The theme “Forging the Future” was evident in the...
ACRL 2023: Day One
by Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub Against the Grain is coming to you live, once again, this time from Pittsburgh, PA, for the 2023 ACRL meeting. Attendance is just over 2,100 people (including both in-person and virtual attendees), and there are 147...
There goes my hero, She’s ordinary
By Derek Law, University of Strathclyde This title is a slight paraphrase of lyrics from the Foo Fighters great song “My Hero” recorded in the mid-1990s. The lyricist Dave Grohl wrote it in admiration of the hard work and perseverance of ordinary people. The song is...
Don’s Conference Notes: NISO Plus 2023
By Donald T. Hawkins NISO Plus 2023 drew nearly 600 attendees who profited from its vision that we can all benefit from the unfettered exchange of information. Each session was structured to allow time for discussion following the presentation, thus permitting...
Don’s Conference Notes: The NISO 2023 Miles Conrad Lecture
By Donald T. Hawkins The Miles Conrad Award is NISO’s highest honor. It was established in honor of G. Miles Conrad whose work in the 1950s led to the founding of NFAIS, one of NISO’s predecessors. The recipient of the award presents a lecture at each NISO Plus...
Entering the iPad Galaxy: A Conversation with Eduardo Mendieta on the Future of “The Chain that Links Us”
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Eduardo Mendieta is a professor of Philosophy and Latina/o Studies at Penn State University whose research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to social and...
From the Archives: Saving Serendipity
by Jim O'Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University Editor's Note: This week's blog post comes from the ATG "Back Talk" column published six years ago this month, in the v29 #1 February 2017 issue. When I was ten years old, I wanted to read Mickey...
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ATG Job Bank for 3/26/23
NORTH Research Librarian, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Instruction Librarian / Electronic Resource - SUNY Cobleskill - Cobleskill, NY Head, East Asian Library - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian - Mercy College, Dobbs...
ATG Job Bank for 3/26/23
NORTH Research Librarian, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Instruction Librarian / Electronic Resource - SUNY Cobleskill - Cobleskill, NY Head, East Asian Library - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian - Mercy College, Dobbs...
ATG Newsflash: Internet Archive is Liable for Copyright Infringement, Court Rules
Internet Archive is Liable for Copyright Infringement, Court Rules appears on the TorrentFreak website and is by Ernesto Van der Sar. "The Internet Archive's online book lending library is not protected by the fair use exception to copyright. Major book publishers...
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...