The Charleston Library Conference has been invited to present a session this year during the Frankfurter Buchmesse – Special Edition 2020. The event will be on Friday, October 16 and will be on the Frankfurter Book Fair virtual platform. There is no registration to...
Rumors
The Librarian Reserve Corps: A Volunteer Organization Helping to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic-The Rumors Blog-Guest Post
By: Bradley A. Long, Embedded Health Sciences Librarian, Harrell Health Sciences Library, Penn State College of Medicine - University Park Regional Campus, State College, PA and Jess Callaway, Clinical Research Librarian, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA Librarians...
Third Place-Guest Post-The Rumors Blog
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books In 1989 sociologist Ray Oldenburg published a book he called The Great Good Place. Oldenburg wrote barely anything else over his career, but this book made him famous (for a...
Real Rumors
Here’s a piece of good news! Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Shane Reese has announced the appointment of the industrious and enterprising Rick Anderson as university librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library. Rick succeeds Brian Rennick who...
Sad News from Against the Grain
By: Katina Strauch The Late Bill Hannay On Monday, Bruce and I got a call from Donna Hannay. She asked that we both be together. Optimist that I am, I figured that Bill had won some big award. No! Donna said very calmly that Bill Hannay had died. August 11, 2020, the...
Paws Encouraged Profiles-The Rumors Blog-Guest Post
By: Ramune K. Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University Pet’s Name (and Owner’s Name): Anonymous 1 (white dog), Anonymous 2 (white and brown dog), Anonymous 3 (brown and white dog), aka "Dogs from the Neighborhood" Pet’s Job Title: Walkers...
Death of a Sales Call – Guest Post-The Rumors Blog
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books Bob Nardini You may think you’ve read all there is to read about how COVID-19 has moved so much of life away from face-to-face experience toward more distant and often online encounters with one...
Access to Digital Information in the Pandemic: Some Data from Italy- The Rumors Blog-Guest Post
By: Guest Blogger Rossana Morriello Research Support Librarian, Politecnico di Torino, Italy I am a member of the Observatory on Libraries and Sustainable Development (OBISS) of the Italian Library Association (AIB) dedicated to the implementation of the United...
A Process, Not an Event-The Rumors Blog-Guest Post
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books Bob Nardini Several weeks ago, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article entitled “5 Facts about the Higher-Ed Work Force Right Now,” with data about furloughs and layoffs, employee...
ATG Food + Beverage Roundup — Chicago, IL
Column Editors: Nicole Ameduri (Licensing Manager, Springer Nature) and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Nicole Ameduri, Springer Nature Licensing Manager, loves eating her way through...
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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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