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ATG Book of the Week: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
Title: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern EuropeAuthor: Anthony GraftonHardcover: ISBN: 978-0674237179, $39.95Imprint: Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2020 From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Do you think that “open” peer review will be the dominant form of review for scholarly publications in the future?
ATG Book of the Week: Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian
Title: Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New LibrarianAuthor: Meggan PressSoftcover: ISBN: 978-0-8389-4840-8, $44; eBook: Item # 8400-8408, $31Imprint: Chicago: ACRL, 2020 "Academia is a strange and wonderful beast, governed by rules and traditions that can...
The Librarian Reserve Corps: A Volunteer Organization Helping to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic-The Rumors Blog-Guest Post
By: Bradley A. Long, Embedded Health Sciences Librarian, Harrell Health Sciences Library, Penn State College of Medicine - University Park Regional Campus, State College, PA and Jess Callaway, Clinical Research Librarian, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA Librarians...
Third Place-Guest Post-The Rumors Blog
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books In 1989 sociologist Ray Oldenburg published a book he called The Great Good Place. Oldenburg wrote barely anything else over his career, but this book made him famous (for a...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Is your library currently participating in an AI (artificial intelligence) initiative?
ATG Book of the Week: Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Title: Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual LifeAuthor: Zena HitzHardcover: 978-0691178714, $22.95; Kindle Ed.: ASIN : B0824B74F9, $13.77Imprint: Princeton: Princeton UP, 2020 "In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost...
Real Rumors
Here’s a piece of good news! Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Shane Reese has announced the appointment of the industrious and enterprising Rick Anderson as university librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library. Rick succeeds Brian Rennick who...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Have you been a peer reviewer?
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ATG News & Announcements: 10/21/20
Open Access Archiving: JISC Announces New Sherpa Romeo Service Enhancement: Browse by Country Citing a JISC Announcement, infoDOCKET reports that "as part of Open Access week, we would like to take the opportunity to announce a Sherpa Romeo [“a summary of publishers’...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Conference Experience
By: Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Conference Online conferences bring opportunities to attend events you may never have been able to before, to network with and learn from a more diverse range of people. But unlike in-person conferences, online events...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week 10/13/20
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases August 2020 StatShot Report: “Publishing Industry Flat For Month; Down 4.6% Year To Date Trade (Consumer Book) Sales Up Nearly 7% in August” According to infoDOCKET "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today...
ATG News & Announcements 10/8/20
Two New Filings Posted in the Publisher/Internet Archive Lawsuit Including Supplemental Discovery Deadlines infoDOCKET reports that "two new court filings were posted today in the publishers/Internet Archive lawsuit. Both documents are available online via the RECAP...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week 10/5/20
ACRL 2021 Conference Going Virtual Due to COVID-19 ACRL Insider reports that "the ACRL Board of Directors announced today that the face-to-face portion of the ACRL 2021 Conference scheduled for April 14-17, 2021, in Seattle, Washington, has been canceled because...
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