by Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, Delta Think Editor's Note: This article was published in the June 2022 issue of Against the Grain, volume 34 #3, p. 40. On May 1-3, over one hundred and thirty attendees gathered at the...
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The Hannay Way!
by Katina Strauch, Editor, Against the Grain, and Founder, Charleston Conference Many of you remember Bill Hannay fondly from his years of presenting in the Long Arm of the Law panel at the annual Charleston Conference. We tragically lost Bill in 2020, and the...
Our Wicked Discovery Problem Part Two: Embed and Personalize
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries Editor’s Note: In Part One, Steven made the case that we have a significant problem with our discovery systems, using information from a recent webinar and study on library discovery and...
Don’s Conference Notes- SSP 2022: Building a More Connected Scholarly Community
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) The 44th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) was held June 1-3, 2022 in Chicago, IL. It was a hybrid meeting and ran on the Whova platform. I attended virtually. Attendance was 643...
Our Wicked Discovery Problem Part One: Inconvenient and Boring
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries Editor’s Note: In Part One, Steven makes the case that we have a significant problem with our discovery systems, using information from a recent webinar and study on library discovery and...
Trendspotting at SSP 2022
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) Editor's Note: This article will also be published in an upcoming issue of Against the Grain as part of the "Don's Conference Notes" column. The Trendspotting Initiative, by Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor at...
Rhyme, Russian, Revolution, and Reason
by Donna Jacobs, Retired, Medical University of South Carolina Editor's Note: This post is taken from Donna's "Booklover" column in the April 2022 issue of Against the Grain, v 34 #2, pg. 34. This Booklover has been in word heaven lately; so many provocative...
Mixing with Royalty: Conferences and Creative Thinking
By Derek Law, Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde One of the very few benefits of Covid-19 is that I have been using my local public library much more and using serendipity wandering round the shelves to find new things to read. On a recent visit I came...
Carpe Diem – Seizing Pandemic Opportunities?
Editor's Note: Today's post comes from our Against the Grain archives, and was originally published in the June 2020 issue, Volume 32 #3. Ann gives some lessons learned below; what other lessons can we share two years later on? by Ann Okerson (Senior Advisor, Center...
Open VS. Affordable: A Balancing Act for Academic Librarians
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries To better understand where in the curriculum open education resources (OER) were adopted by our faculty, our institutional Textbook Task Force turned a faculty survey on OER use into an...
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