By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) Attending der Frankfurter Buchmesse (that’s German for “The Frankfurt Book Fair”) is an overwhelming experience but one that every information professional should have at least once. The fair...
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The Future of Reading, Writing and Written Communication: Part 3 – The Future of Writing In Digital Cultures-An ATG Original
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Vincent Van Gogh Letter To anyone who remembers being criticized for illegible writing, the disappearance of cursive is perhaps less of an issue. For...
THE FUTURE OF READING, WRITING AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: PART 2: CAN SCIENCE RESCUE CURSIVE? An atg original
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Writing has been with us for thousands of years in some form – and today with technologies giving us more venues for formal communication – the written word is...
ATG Book of the Week: Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal
Title: Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic JournalAuthor: Michael ChibnikHardcover: ISBN: 978-0812252170, $49.95Imprint: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the...
ATG Caught My Eye – 12/31/20
8 Great Libraries for Your Zoom Background If you've been looking for a new background for your Zoom meetings, Library Journal's Meredith Schwartz suggests these "eight photos of light, bright, and beautiful libraries to ensure that next time you go on camera, the...
ATG Job bank – Librarians – 12/29/20
ATG Job bank - Librarians - 12/29/20 Library of Congress Announces 2021 Librarians-in-Residence Program The Library of Congress has announced the 2021 Librarians-in-Residence program to offer early career librarians the opportunity to develop their expertise and...
ATG Quirkies: Behold, the scrappiest Christmas tree of them all
Lismore an inland town in Australia, has come upon a novel way to decorate the downtown during the Christmas season. Combining the town's cultural focus on art with environmental awareness, they have recently been decorating an otherwise unadorned downtown roundabout...
ATG Job Bank – Publishers – 12/28/20
IEEE Board of Directors Administrator - Jack Farrell & Associates - Piscataway, New Jersey "... This role reports to the Senior Director, Corporate Governance, and is responsible for ensuring each member of the IEEE Board of Directors and the IEEE Assembly has the...
ATG Book of the Week: A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
Title: A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and ViragoAuthor Lennie GoodingsHardcover: ISBN: 978-0198828754, $21.95Imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave....
ATG Quirkies: What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze?
Jigsaw puzzles have made a major comeback in 2020, at least that's according to What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze? in JSTOR Daily. (A Thomas Kinkade puzzle via Flickr) And it’s due to the novel coronavirus pandemic! There has been an unheard of jump in demand...
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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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