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ATG Quirkies: 14 Colonial-Era Slang Terms to Work Into Modern Conversation
In a recent post on the Mental Floss website, Joe Gallard, a history buff and founder of History Hustle, notes that whenever English finds a new home, it often takes on a new life. And then he goes on to prove it by highlighting 14 Colonial-Era Slang Terms that...
ATG Job Bank -10/27/20 – Publishers
ATG Job Bank -10/27/20 - Publishers Editorial Ethics Manager - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Washington, DC "The Editorial Ethics Manager is a senior staff member responsible for maintaining the scientific integrity of the journal. Incumbent will...
ATG Quirkies: How Students Built a 16th-Century Engineer’s Book-Reading Machine
This post in Atlas Obscura recounts how a group of undergraduate engineering students at the Rochester Institute of Technology constructed, not one but two, 16th-Century Engineer’s Book-Reading Machines. The book wheel designed by Agostino Ramelli, a 16th-Century...
2020 Virtual Career Center
Greetings, Last year we had a great first Charleston Conference Career Fair and we are pleased to bring it back this year and we hope that you will be a participant in the following ways Submit a job listing to be posted to the Charleston Conference website and...
ATG Book of the Week: Reflections on Practitioner Research: A Practical Guide for Information Professionals
Title: Reflections on Practitioner Research: A Practical Guide for Information Professionals TitleAuthor: Lee Ann Fullington, Brandon K. West, & Frans AlbarilloPaperback: ISBN: 978-0-8389-4847-7, $78; eBook: Item # 8400-8477Imprint: Chicago, ACRL, 2020 A...
ATG Caught My Eye 10/23/20
“Pandemic Amplifies Trouble with Restrictive Licensing and E-Textbooks” is posted on the SPARC website : "Students who can’t afford to buy textbooks have long relied on reserve copies at their campus libraries. As the global pandemic shuttered colleges and...
ATG Quirkies: A Surreal New Bookstore Has Just Opened in China
In this post, Elizabeth Stamp of Architectural Digest highlights a futuristic looking new bookstore with "mirrored ceilings—while gleaming black tile floors reflect the bookcases for a serious M.C. Escher effect." images are courtesy of Shao Feng Ms. Stamp goes on to...
Amazon, Publishers and Antitrust – Part 2: Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation with Maurice Stucke
By: Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and former Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) Rather than wait for more information or the next steps in this governmental process, ATG has asked one of the acknowledged legal experts on...
ATG Quirkies: Violins in Quarantine
In this post Matthew Taub, Contributing writer for Atlas Obscura tells the story of The Holocaust-Surviving Violins That Were Quarantined Beneath a California Stage RICKI QUINN / THE SORAYA It seems that in March 2020 a collection of musical instruments known as...
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ATG News & Announcements 10/28/20
ATG News & Announcements 10/28/20 Chancellor Gardner appoints Pawlowski as OhioLINK executive director Library Technology Guides report that "Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner has named Amy Pawlowski executive director of OhioLINK,...
ATG News & Announcements 10/28/20
ATG News & Announcements 10/28/20 Chancellor Gardner appoints Pawlowski as OhioLINK executive director Library Technology Guides report that "Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner has named Amy Pawlowski executive director of OhioLINK,...
ATG Conferences, Meetings and Webinars 10/26/20
ATG Conferences, Meetings and Webinars 10/26/20 NISO Plus 2021 Call For Session Proposals! You probably know by now that NISO Plus 2021 will be a global, virtual-first event. What you may not know is that, unlike the inaugural conference in February 2020, next...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week: 10/26/20
ATG News You Need to Start the Week: 10/26/20 Expanded access to JSTOR and Artstor extended through June 2021 According to Library Technology Guides "As the COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt higher education, ITHAKA is extending the JSTOR and Artstor expanded...
ATG News & Announcements 10/23/20
- ATG News & Announcements 10/23/20 - Initiative for Open Abstracts According to this announcement the Initiative for Open Abstracts "is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, researchers and other interested...
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