LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions According to LSU Libraries News & Notes "LSU is accelerating efforts to digitize vulnerable collections for diverse and underfunded cultural heritage institutions in Louisiana with a new...
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Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/5/22
Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform Publishing Perspectives reports that " a migration of Oxford University Press‘ books as well as journals to the online platform Oxford Academic announced Wednesday (August 3) is expected to “further...
University of Maryland: 3 iSchool Professors Awarded $1.4M to Develop Library and Archival Services – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/4/22
University of Maryland: 3 iSchool Professors Awarded $1.4M to Develop Library and Archival Service Citing Maryland Today, infoDOCKET reports that "Three College of Information Studies faculty members have been awarded a total of $1.4 million from the Institute of...
Submit a Photo and You Could Win a Travel Grant to The Charleston Conference
…or a $50 Amazon gift card by Camille Gamboa, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Director, SAGE Publishing For about a decade, SAGE has organized a photo contest that awards one travel grant and five (or more) gift cards to runners up (or runner ups?). All...
NISO awarded IMLS grant for collaborative collections lifecycle project – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/3/22
NISO awarded IMLS grant for collaborative collections lifecycle project Library Technology Guides reports that "The National Information Standards Organization, the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, and Lehigh University Libraries,...
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/2/22
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use The Library of Congress Newsroom reports that "Culminating over two years of software development and extensive user-experience testing, the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office have opened...
Springer Nature expands AI-driven digital editing services to books authors and editors for free – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/1/22
Springer Nature expands AI-driven digital editing services to books authors and editors for free Library Technology Guides reports that "Springer Nature has today announced a new pilot with American Journal Experts (AJE)* which will see its AI-driven editing services...
IMLS announces $21 million investment in U.S. library and archive initiatives – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/29/22
IMLS announces $21 million investment in U.S. library and archive initiatives Library Technology Guides reports that the "Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 71 awards totaling $21,189,566 to support libraries and archives across the country. The...
IEEE and University of California Sign Transformative Open Access Publishing Agreement – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/28/22
IEEE and University of California Sign Transformative Open Access Publishing Agreement According to this press release "IEEE and the University of California today announce a four-year read-and-publish agreement to enable researchers across the 10-campus university...
Phoenix Rising: The Council of Science Editors’ 2022 Annual Meeting
by Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, Delta Think Editor's Note: This article was published in the June 2022 issue of Against the Grain, volume 34 #3, p. 40. On May 1-3, over one hundred and thirty attendees gathered at the...
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LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/8/22
LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions According to LSU Libraries News & Notes "LSU is accelerating efforts to digitize vulnerable collections for diverse and underfunded cultural heritage institutions in Louisiana with a new...
LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/8/22
LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions According to LSU Libraries News & Notes "LSU is accelerating efforts to digitize vulnerable collections for diverse and underfunded cultural heritage institutions in Louisiana with a new...
ATG Job Bank for 8/7/22
NORTH Library Systems Analyst, Boston University Libraries, MA Discovery Services Manager, Boston University Libraries, Boston MA Digital Technologies Librarian, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Electronic Resources and Discovery Librarian, Sawyer Library, Suffolk...
Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/5/22
Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform Publishing Perspectives reports that " a migration of Oxford University Press‘ books as well as journals to the online platform Oxford Academic announced Wednesday (August 3) is expected to “further...
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...