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Don’s Conference Notes- Charleston InBetween: A New Symposium
By: Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Conference Charleston InBetween was a new symposium hosted by the Charleston Hub to provide an in-depth examination of subjects that is not practical...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 125: A Conversation with David Durant, Federal Documents and Social Sciences Librarian
Today’s episode features a conversation with David Durant. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. David Durant is Associate Professor and Federal Documents...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 124: A Conversation with Anthony Watkinson
Today’s episode features a conversation with Anthony Watkinson. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Anthony Watkinson is cofounder of CIBER Research and a...
Our Ever-Closer Partnership- Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press begin a new chapter today as we formally become one organisation under the name Cambridge University Press & Assessment. The merger creates a larger, global organisation that offers world-leading academic...
ATG Interviews Emre Hasan Akbayrak, Director, Kadriye Zaim Library, Atılım University
By: Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief , Charleston Briefings and Conference Director, Charleston Conference Against the Grain Vol. 33#4 Emre Hasan Akbayrak ATG: Emre Hasan Akbayrak, would you please introduce yourself? EHA: Thank you, Matthew. I first would...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 123: A Conversation With Sarah Lippincott
This episode features a conversation with Sarah Lippincott. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Sarah Lippincott is an independent consultant who was formerly...
Researchers use AI to unlock the secrets of ancient texts
By: Jessica Sieff Research. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame. The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the eighth century — all of which are written by...
Lessons From arXiv’s 30 Years Of Information Sharing
Since the launch of arXiv 30 years ago, modes of information spread in society have changed dramatically — and not always for the better. Paul Ginsparg, who founded arXiv, discusses how academic experience with online preprints can still inform information sharing...
ASU Library Awarded Digital Preservation Grant
Stacey Erdman The Arizona State University Library and its partner organizations were selected by the Institute of Museum and Library Services as the recipient of a 2021 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program award, totaling $249,974, with the aim of...
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National Archives (NARA) Celebrates 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/27/21
Milestones: National Archives (NARA) Celebrates 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog According to infoDOCKET "the number of digital copies of our records in the National Archives Catalog has just surpassed 150 million. Digitizing large quantities of our...
Book Sales Prognosis: Good 2021, Uncertain 2022 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/25
Book Sales Prognosis: Good 2021, Uncertain 2022 Publishers Weekly reports that "Book sales should finish 2021 on a good note, but a number of factors could mean softer sales in early 2022, NPD BookScan noted during a webinar on third-quarter sales. Coalition Publica...
ATG Book of the Week:The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors (Skills for Scholars)
Title: The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors (Skills for Scholars)Author: Laura Portwood-StacerPaperback: ISBN: 978-0691209678, $18.99Imprint: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021 A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book...
Internet Archive releases Refcat, the IA Scholar Index of over 1.3 billion scholarly citations – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/22/21
Internet Archive releases Refcat, the IA Scholar Index of over 1.3 billion scholarly citations Library Technology Guides reports that the Internet Archive "As part of our ongoing efforts to archive and provide perpetual access to at-risk, open-access scholarship, we...
The End of JSTOR’s Journal Hosting Program
JSTOR’s Journal Hosting Program (JHP) was founded in 2011 as a resource for publishers to host current journal issues — and archives — on JSTOR servers. It’s been an affordable way to distribute academic content to researchers and libraries, but JSTOR is closing the...
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