By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) convened its second NISOPlus conference on February 22-25, 2021 with the theme “Global Connections and Global Conversations”. It attracted 835...
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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 106-Artificial Intelligence And Publishing With Feet Firmly On The Ground-With Michael UpShall, UNSILO
In today’s episode we will feature audio from an Interview of Michael Upshall, of UNSILO. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan. Michael Upshall is head of sales and business development at...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 105: Long Arm of the Law Part 2
Audio from Part Two of a keynote of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Pam Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School, in Berkeley, CA, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research...
Altmetrics: Part 2- Celebrating Altmetric’s Decade- AN ATG Original
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian Altmetric, the company, has been in existence for ten years now. The company has grown, and to get the view from company officials themselves, we submitted questions and various company officials responded...
ATG! The Podcast-Episode 104: Keynote Panel- 2020 Long Arm of the Law Part 1
Audio from Part 1 of a keynote of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Nancy Kirkpatrick, Executive Director/CEO, OhioNET, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries. The Long Arm Panel focuses each year on...
Altmetrics: Part 1- Celebrating A Decade of Progress- An ATG Original
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian It was ten years ago that the Altmetrics Manifesto was published. Today the movement to more open science is growing rapidly. In our recent article series on Wikipedia, we looked at how...
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,...
ATG! The Podcast: Episode 101- Views From The Penthouse Suite- An Interview with Dr. Earl Lewis
In today’s episode we will feature an interview with Dr. Earl Lewis, University of Michigan, Director of Center for Social Solutions. This interview is part of the popular “Views from the Penthouse Suite” series and was conducted by Tom Gilson, Associate...
Don’s Conference Notes- Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) 2021
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) The APE conference was started in 2005 by Arnoud de Kemp, formerly a top manager at Springer-Verlag. It has been held in mid-January in Berlin, Germany since its founding and is one of the first...
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It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
ATG Quirky: Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
Google Earth’s biggest update in years – Plus More ATG News and Announcements
Google Earth's biggest update in years adds free 3D timelapse videos Yahoo News reports that "Google is announcing its biggest update to the service since 2017, saying in a blog post that "you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time." It's bringing...
ATG Job Bank 4/16/21
Northeast Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian, University of New Hampshire (UNH) Library, Durham, NH Associate Librarian for Collections, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Librarian III/Research and Reference Librarian, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ...
Library Leaders Lack Confidence in Diversity Strategies – Plus More ATG News & Announcements
Library Leaders Lack Confidence in Diversity Strategies This report and analysis in Inside Higher ED notes that "Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic libraries is more important to library leaders now than it was in 2019, but many are uncertain about...
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