By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Vincent Van Gogh Letter To anyone who remembers being criticized for illegible writing, the disappearance of cursive is perhaps less of an issue. For...
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Wiley Acquires Hindawi
By: Kent Anderson, “The Geyser” On January 5th, John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of the London-based Hindawi. Founded in 1997 in Cairo, Hindawi journals have been fully OA since 2007. The acquisition comes after Wiley partnered with Hindawi a few years...
ATG Book of the Week: Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal
Title: Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic JournalAuthor: Michael ChibnikHardcover: ISBN: 978-0812252170, $49.95Imprint: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the...
ATG Caught My Eye – 12/31/20
8 Great Libraries for Your Zoom Background If you've been looking for a new background for your Zoom meetings, Library Journal's Meredith Schwartz suggests these "eight photos of light, bright, and beautiful libraries to ensure that next time you go on camera, the...
ATG Article of the Week: ‘Chasm’ Between Academic and Trade Publishing
‘Chasm’ Between Academic and Trade Publishing is an article in Publishing Perspectives authored by Richard Charkin. In his post Mr. Charkin argues "that "the last 20 years have seen an ever-growing chasm between academic and trade publishing on the technology front."...
ATG Quirkies: Behold, the scrappiest Christmas tree of them all
Lismore an inland town in Australia, has come upon a novel way to decorate the downtown during the Christmas season. Combining the town's cultural focus on art with environmental awareness, they have recently been decorating an otherwise unadorned downtown roundabout...
ATG Book of the Week: A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
Title: A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and ViragoAuthor Lennie GoodingsHardcover: ISBN: 978-0198828754, $21.95Imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave....
ATG Quirkies: What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze?
Jigsaw puzzles have made a major comeback in 2020, at least that's according to What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze? in JSTOR Daily. (A Thomas Kinkade puzzle via Flickr) And it’s due to the novel coronavirus pandemic! There has been an unheard of jump in demand...
ATG Caught My Eye – 12/17/20
Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management, and Purchasing Patterns is a Choice White Paper authored by John Novak, L. Angie Ohler, and Annette Day. Using survey results and a literature review, they "measure the significance...
ATG Book of the Week: Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Title: Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic WorldAuthor: Fareed ZakariaHardcover: ISBN: 978-0393542134; $26.95Imprint: New York: Norton, 2020 COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing...
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ATG Conferences, Meetings and Webinars – 1/19/21
The Library at the Forefront of Scholarly Communications: Insights from Brandeis University Presented by: Ex Libris & Library JournalEvent Date and Time: Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 2:00-3:00 PM ET, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM PT How can libraries promote...
ATG News & Announcements – 1/15/21
ATG News & Announcements - 1/15/21 MSU Libraries Join Other Big Ten Libraries to Create Collection Available to All Big Ten University Faculty, Staff, and Students ARL Communications Day in Review notes that "in a historic and unprecedented maneuver for a group of...
ATG Quirkies: The Pythagorean Cup
ATG Quirkies: The Pythagorean Cup You can be forgiven if you think that the Pythagorean Cup is an ingenious geometric theorem. But of course you'd be wrong. It is actually a clever practical joke that amused the ancient Greeks - at least according to this post in...
ATG News & Announcements 1/13/21
ATG News & Announcements 1/13/21 Ithaka S+R: “Data Repository Platforms: A Primer” According to infoDOCKET, Ithaka S+R reports that they "decided to conduct exploratory, high-level research on a number of data repositories, primarily to inform our own data deposit...
Call for Article Proposals: the state of ebooks
Against the Grain is seeking article proposals for an issue on the state of ebooks -- acquisition and the user experience -- in academic libraries. Has there been progress in the way we purchase ebooks and the way users engage with them in the past 10 years? Has...
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