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,...
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ATG Book of the Week: Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection, Second Edition
Title: Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection, Second EditionAuthors: Mary E. Miller and Susanne M. WardSoftcover:: ISBN: 978-0-8389-4972-6, $64.99Imprint: Chicago, ALA Editions, 2021 Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the...
ATG Quirkies: The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History
This post in Atlas Obscura highlights The Marion Stokes Project, a recent documentary by Matt Wolf that recounts the 37 year obsession of this unique librarian and archivist. It tells the story of the close to "71,000 VHS AND BETAMAX cassettes that are sitting in...
ATG Quirkies: 7 Museum Facts That Will Surprise You
In this lively post in Architectural Digest, Stephanie Strasnick reveals seven of the world's best-kept museum secrets Ms. Strasnick starts by highlighting the fact that "unbeknownst to many museum goers, real-life architectural Easter eggs can be found in...
ATG Article of the Week: “How a Year Without My Library Has Changed Me”
This article is by Lauren Du Graf and it appears on the Literary Hub website and it offers MS Du Graf's take on the Library as a Metaphor and Method. "The last time I saw the inside of a library was the afternoon of March 12. Crocuses were peeking out of the ground....
ATG Quirkies: Girls and Dolls in the Roman Empire
Interestingly, this post in JSTOR Daily argues that the dolls that elite Roman girls played with as children were a lot like the modern Barbie doll. (Roman ivory doll from the mid-2nd century AD - via Wikimedia Commons) Classic scholars like Fanny Dolansky think that...
ATG Book of the Week: Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?
Title: Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up? Author: Joshua A. T. Fairfield. Hardback: 978-1108426121, $64.99; Paperback: 978-1108444576, 19.95Imprint: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 "In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep...
ATG Quirky: This Writer Is Tweeting Everything Sylvia Plath Ever Ate
In this post in Gastro Obscura, contributor Reina Gattuso focuses on aspiring writer Rebecca Brill and her obsession with Sylvia Plath’s diaries, and how she is putting it to good use. Feeling isolated by the pandemic lockdown in early 2020, Ms. Brill decided to...
ATG Book of the Week: Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects
Title: Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects Editors: Linn Holmberg and Maria SimonsenHardcover: ISBN: 978-3030642990, $107.49; Kindle Edition: ASIN : B08X115CCB, $79.40Imprint: London: Palgrave...
ATG Quirky: Still Stuck at Home? It Might Be Time to Work on That Novel.
In this New York Times post, author Sophia June tells how the pandemic has surprisingly fostered a variation on the traditional writing group that has lowered barriers to participation for the aspiring Novelist. Writers like those in the writing group organized by...
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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,...
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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