By Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) convened its second NISOPlus conference on February 22-25, 2021 with the theme “Global Connections and Global Conversations”. It attracted 835...
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ATG! The Podcast- Episode 107: Using the Unbundling Power of Unsub Responsibly: Unveiling Its Assumptions and Unpacking Its Defaults
Audio from the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; Jason Price, Research and Scholarly Communication Director, SCELC, and John McDonald, Director, Product Management, Analytics, EBSCO...
ATG Quirkies: The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History
This post in Atlas Obscura highlights The Marion Stokes Project, a recent documentary by Matt Wolf that recounts the 37 year obsession of this unique librarian and archivist. It tells the story of the close to "71,000 VHS AND BETAMAX cassettes that are sitting in...
ATG! The Podcast: Episode 106-Artificial Intelligence And Publishing With Feet Firmly On The Ground-With Michael UpShall, UNSILO
In today’s episode we will feature audio from an Interview of Michael Upshall, of UNSILO. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan. Michael Upshall is head of sales and business development at...
ATG Article of the Week: “How a Year Without My Library Has Changed Me”
This article is by Lauren Du Graf and it appears on the Literary Hub website and it offers MS Du Graf's take on the Library as a Metaphor and Method. "The last time I saw the inside of a library was the afternoon of March 12. Crocuses were peeking out of the ground....
ATG Book of the Week: Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?
Title: Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up? Author: Joshua A. T. Fairfield. Hardback: 978-1108426121, $64.99; Paperback: 978-1108444576, 19.95Imprint: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 "In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep...
ATG! The Podcast- Episode 105: Long Arm of the Law Part 2
Audio from Part Two of a keynote of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Pam Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School, in Berkeley, CA, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research...
ATG Quirky: This Writer Is Tweeting Everything Sylvia Plath Ever Ate
In this post in Gastro Obscura, contributor Reina Gattuso focuses on aspiring writer Rebecca Brill and her obsession with Sylvia Plath’s diaries, and how she is putting it to good use. Feeling isolated by the pandemic lockdown in early 2020, Ms. Brill decided to...
ATG Book of the Week: Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects
Title: Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects Editors: Linn Holmberg and Maria SimonsenHardcover: ISBN: 978-3030642990, $107.49; Kindle Edition: ASIN : B08X115CCB, $79.40Imprint: London: Palgrave...
Altmetrics: Part 2- Celebrating Altmetric’s Decade- AN ATG Original
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian Altmetric, the company, has been in existence for ten years now. The company has grown, and to get the view from company officials themselves, we submitted questions and various company officials responded...
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ATG Quirky: Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
ATG Quirky: Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
Google Earth’s biggest update in years – Plus More ATG News and Announcements
Google Earth's biggest update in years adds free 3D timelapse videos Yahoo News reports that "Google is announcing its biggest update to the service since 2017, saying in a blog post that "you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time." It's bringing...
ATG Job Bank 4/16/21
Northeast Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian, University of New Hampshire (UNH) Library, Durham, NH Associate Librarian for Collections, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Librarian III/Research and Reference Librarian, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ...
Library Leaders Lack Confidence in Diversity Strategies – Plus More ATG News & Announcements
Library Leaders Lack Confidence in Diversity Strategies This report and analysis in Inside Higher ED notes that "Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic libraries is more important to library leaders now than it was in 2019, but many are uncertain about...
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