Eight Open Collections Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month is by the Editors of JSTOR Daily. (Freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Open Community Collections and Artstor Public Collections.) Creator: David Schwartz - Date: 1984 "As...
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“Caught My Eye” by Katina: “As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Library Conferences Move to Virtual and Hybrid Models”
"As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Library Conferences Move to Virtual and Hybrid Models" is by Lisa Peet and appears in Library Journal "Despite the national rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine last spring, this summer and fall have been about readjusting expectations for living...
ATG Book of the Week: Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
Title: Along Came Google: A History of Library DigitizationAuthors: Deanna Marcum and Roger SchonfeldHardcover: ISBN: 9780691172712, $29.95 / £25.00; eBook: ISBN: 9780691208039Imprint: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021 "Libraries have long talked about...
ATG Quirkies: Introducing American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
Introducing American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside is by Kate McQueen, a writer and lecturer at University of California Santa Cruz. It appears in JSTOR Daily. In December 1915, the men at Wyoming State Penitentiary—population 276—established a...
ATG Quirky: Inside the Company Printing America’s Community Cookbooks
Inside the Company Printing America’s Community Cookbooks appears in Gastro Obscura by Sam O'Brien. (PHOTO BY SAM O'BRIEN FOR GASTRO OBSCURA) "KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, IS BEST KNOWN as a stopping point for migrating sandhill cranes. Other than seasonal birdwatchers, the...
ATG Book of the Week: Envisioning the Framework: A Graphic Guide to Information Literacy
Title: Envisioning the Framework: A Graphic Guide to Information LiteracyAuthor: Jannette L. FinchSoftcover: ISBN: 978-0-8389-3893-5, $109; eEditions PDF e-book: 978-0-8389-3894-2, $76Imprint: Chicago, ACRL, 2021 "Data visualization—making sense of the world through...
ATG Book of the Week: Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Title: Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)Author: Jack HartPaperback: ISBN: 978-0226736921, $18; Imprint: Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2021 "Jack Hart, master writing...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: Brewster Kahle Profile: “He Founded the Internet Archive with a Utopian Vision. That Hasn’t Changed, But the Internet Has”
Brewster Kahle Profile: “He Founded the Internet Archive with a Utopian Vision. That Hasn’t Changed, But the Internet Has” is cited by Gary Price of infoDOCKET and appears in the San Francisco Chronicle (requires a subscription). Brewster Kahle "Inside his library,...
PA Warns On Copyright As New Figures Show Value Of Exports
Published September 10, 2021 by Heloise Wood The Publishers Association has reiterated calls for copyright rules to remain in place as new figures show nearly two-thirds of the UK’s publishing industry’s income in 2020 came from exports, despite the turmoil...
ATG Book of the Week: Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected Future
Title: Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected FutureAuthor: Lorrie McAllister, Shari Laster & CORESoftcover: ISBN: 978-0-8389-4882-8, $59.99Imprint: Chicago: ALA Editions, 2021 In this book, collection management staff at...
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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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