Commentary: The future (budget) of the academic library is by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and it appears in Physics Today. "Academic librarians are stewards of resources invested for the collective campus good. Responsible stewardship includes serving the institution’s...
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ATG Quirkies: A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos
A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos is by Nell Clark an editor at Morning Edition and a writer for NPR's Live Blog. Her piece appears on the NPR website. Photo illustration: Vanessa Leroy and Nell Clark via Oakland...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: How to fall back in love with reading
"How to fall back in love with reading" is by Alissa Wilkinson and appears in Vox. "I doubt you need to be told you should be reading more. There’s a good chance you struggle to make time for reading, and it feels like just another obligation, like hitting your daily...
ATG Quirkies: Bugs Bunny Scholarship Is a Wascally Wesearch Wabbit Hole
Bugs Bunny Scholarship Is a Wascally Wesearch Wabbit Hole is by the Editors of JSTOR Daily and aptly appears as part of their Research Rabbit Hole series of posts. "What’s up, Doc? Dunno, but let’s see what the PhD’s are saying about everyone’s favorite rascally...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: The Bookseller Who Helped Transform Oxford, Mississippi
The Bookseller Who Helped Transform Oxford, Mississippi is by Casey Cep, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” "Richard Howorth has nurtured generations of Southern writers and readers, and...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse appears in the New York Times and its is by Alexandra Alter, who writes about publishing and the literary world for The New York Times, and Elizabeth A. Harris, who writes about books and...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: The Death Of Literature-The Spectator World
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The greatest men make the greatest mistakes. One thinks of the late John Lukacs, the Hungarian-American historian who claimed that the age of the book is at an end. That is far from being the case, the electronic book...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: The Norwegian library with unreadable books
The Norwegian library with unreadable books appears on the BBC website and is by Richard Fisher. Mr. Fisher is a senior journalist for BBC Future and tweets @rifish. He writes the newsletter The Long-termist's Field Guide, and is the author of an upcoming book...
ATG Book of the Week: Managing Licensed E-Resources: Techniques, Tips and Practical Advice
TITLE: Managing Licensed E-Resources: Techniques, Tips and Practical AdviceEDITOR: Galadriel ChiltonPAPERBACK: ISBN: 978-1-945398-09-4, $15.99; epub: ISBN: 978-1-945398-10-0, free; PDF: ISBN: 978-1-945398-12-4, free.IMPRINT: Forest Grove, OR: Pacific University Press,...
ATG Quirkies: A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World
A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World appears on the Literary Hub website and is by Emily Temple, managing editor of Lit Hub. "In our habitual fantasies, writers do nothing but sit at small café tables, sometimes meeting with their friends,...
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CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 2/3/23
CCC Releases a Study of How Knowledge Workers Handle Information CCC is unveiling key findings from “Information Seeking and Consumption Study,” which is based on data gathered by Outsell. They include the following: [P]otential instances of unlicensed sharing per...
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/31/23
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses According to KnowledgeSpeak, "OhioLINK and De Gruyter have announced an agreement to provide OhioLINK’s 89 member libraries with newly published frontlist eBooks from University of...
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC’s RightsLink for Scientific Communications – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/30/23
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC's RightsLink for Scientific Communications According to Information Today, "CCC announced that “the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its...
ATG Job Bank for 1/29/23
NORTH OER Librarian, Bentley University, Waltham, MA Data Reference & Collections Librarian - New York University, Division of Libraries – New York, NY Assistant Director, Prospect Research & Management, Salem State University, Salem, MA Research and Teaching...
World’s Oldest Printed Objects Join Gutenberg Bible in Beinecke Display – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 1/27/23
World’s oldest printed objects join Gutenberg Bible in Beinecke display According to this post in Yale News, Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in...
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