Ukrainian refugees waiting to board buses. More than 2 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled their country. March 8, 2022. - (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images) Rumors weeks of March 16-23 We have all...
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If Rumors Were Horses: Week of March 9, 2022
Rumors week of 3-9-22 Stephen Rhind-Tutt Stephen Rhind-Tutt’s Coherent Digital’s Policy Commons editors have selected 21 important documents for studying the background of the conflict in Ukraine, including Vladimir Putin’s essay “On the historical unity of Russians...
ATG Quirkies: The smallest library in Maine is on a mission to bring banned books to its community
The smallest library in Maine is on a mission to bring banned books to its community appears in Bangor Daily News and is by Abigail Curtis. "When Eva Murray recently took a trip to the mainland to buy books for the Matinicus Island Library, she came back with bags...
ATG Quirky: What Classic Mystery Author You Should Read, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
What Classic Mystery Author You Should Read, Based On Your Zodiac Sign is by Daisy Bateman who is the author of the Marketplace Mysteries series. It appears on the CrimeReads website. "The mystery genre has a long and varied history, going back close to two centuries...
ATG Book of the Week: The Last Bookseller – A Life in the Rare Book Trade
TITLE: The last Bookseller - A Life in the Rare Book TradeAUTHOR: Gary GoodmanHARDCOVER: ISBN: 978-1517912574; $19.95IMPRINT: Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2021 "When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East...
Caught my Eye by Katina: “When stories pop off the page”
"When stories pop off the page" is written by Scott Jared and is published in The Well, the news source for students and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. In his article, Scott relates the story of "the University Libraries’ collection of fantastically engineered pop-up...
ATG Quirkies: Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer
Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer is by Renée Branum. This article appears on the Literary Hub website and in it, Ms. Branum "lays out a few universal ground rules." 1.Respect the overlapping details in each other’s work and cherish the differences. ...
ATG Book of the Week – Collection Management in the Cloud: A Guide for Using Cloud Computing Technologies in Libraries (LITA Guides)
Title: Collection Management in the Cloud: A Guide for Using Cloud Computing Technologies in Libraries (LITA Guides)Authors: Kayla Kipps and Allison Kaiser JonesHardback: ISBN: 978-1-5381-5188-4, $95; Paper: ISBN 978-1-5381-5189-1, $45; eBook: 978-1-5381-5190-7,...
If Rumors Were Horses: 03-02-22
Rumors for week of March 2 It has happened! Waterstones has bought former family-owned chain Blackwell’s for an undisclosed sum, through funds advised by its hedge fund owner Elliott Advisors. The move follows the acquisition of the Foyles bookshops in September 2018,...
If Rumors Were Horses: Week of 2-28-22
Rumors for the week of 2-28-22 SEWE, the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, has just ended. It’s a three-day showcase of lots about wildlife and nature, a celebration of the great outdoors. This was the 40th anniversary! Four of my grandchildren (7, 5, 4, 3) came from...
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Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/26/22
Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive According to Caralee Adams and the Internet Archive Blog "For librarians who specialize in caring for music collections, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest technology and resources in the...
What Does My Library Need to Know about Ebook Laws? – Plus More ATG News & ANNOUNCEMENTS for 5/23/22
What Does My Library Need to Know about Ebook Laws? In this edition of American Libraries online column Letters of the Law , "Mary Minow and guest author Kyle K. Courtney discuss the library ebooks landscape and state-level efforts to institutionalize fair licensing...
ATG Quirkies: All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx is by Ed Simon, Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. It appears in JSTOR Daily. T. S. Eliot and Groucho MarxGetty...
Pre-Meeting Training sessions for SSP’s 44th Annual Meeting – plus more ATG News & Announcements for 5/20/22
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, AND WEBINARS If you live in or near the Chicago metropolitan area, you’re just a drive or train ride away from SSP’s pre-meeting sessions, to be held on the first day of their 44th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk Hotel on...
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/19/22
Five Projects Receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award Citing a press release by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), infoDOCKET reports that The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are awarding five libraries...
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