By: Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Back in 2006, I was honored to give a keynote at the meeting of the Society of American Archivists, when the president of the Society presented me with a framed blown-up letter...
In the Spotlight
Are Print Magazines Still Relevant? ATG Asks the Expert: Mr. Magazine-An ATG Original
by Nancy K. Herther (writer, consultant and Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries) A woman looks at magazines displayed at a kiosk in Zurich March 16 , 2015. One of Switzerland's two big supermarkets, Coop, is to stop selling titles...
Cynthia Graham Hurd Memorial Scholarship 2020
Springer Nature is proud to honor the legacy of Cynthia Graham Hurd by sponsoring an annual scholarship for library employees to attend the virtual Charleston Conference. Cynthia Graham Hurd was a librarian for over 31 years in Charleston public...
ATG Job Bank – Librarians – 9/15/20
4 Job Openings at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pleased to announce four exciting employment opportunities for exceptional candidates to serve as Unit Heads in the...
The LYRASIS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 2020 Survey Report: Findings and Takeaways-An ATG Original
By: Hannah Rosen, Strategist, Research and Scholarly Communication at LYRASIS This past year we have seen social unrest foment across the country, highlighting the racial injustice still inherent to policing, economic opportunity, the availability of medical...
Free Webcast: Preprints in Biomedicine are Here: Why, How, and What’s Next?
Wednesday, September 16, 20202:00 pm EST Register Now! Description: While those in the physical sciences and some social science disciplines have used preprints for decades, they were mostly unknown to many in the biomedical research community just five years...
ATG Caught My Eye 9/10/20
IOP Moves to Universal Double-blind Peer Review: An Interview with Kim Eggleton is a Scholarly Kitchen post in which Rick Anderson interviews Kim Eggleton of the Institute of Physics (IOP). The interview focuses on the publisher's recently announced move to "100%...
ATG Quirkies: Fake Miracle Cures
Jessica Leigh Hester, a staff writer at Atlas Obscura reports on a new exhibit at the Newberry library touching on the history of guaiacum treatments. DAVID J. STANG / CC BY-SA 4.0 Why an exhibit focused on treatments drawn from the wood of a guaiacum tree? Well, it...
Registration Now Open: 2020 Charleston Workshops and Seminars (Preconferences and Postconferences)
All sessions will be held online through the Zoom platform. The Charleston Conference traditionally hosts preconference workshops and seminars on the days immediately preceding the main conference. This year, since the conference has moved online, we’re hosting our...
ATG: The Podcast- Episode 093: Sami Benchekroun Interview
This week’s episode features an interview and conversation between Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Conference; Tom Gilson, Associate Editor of Against the Grain, and Sami Benchekroun, Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier. Sami has over ten...
LATEST NEWS
ATG News & Announcements: 10/21/20
Open Access Archiving: JISC Announces New Sherpa Romeo Service Enhancement: Browse by Country Citing a JISC Announcement, infoDOCKET reports that "as part of Open Access week, we would like to take the opportunity to announce a Sherpa Romeo [“a summary of publishers’...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Conference Experience
By: Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Conference Online conferences bring opportunities to attend events you may never have been able to before, to network with and learn from a more diverse range of people. But unlike in-person conferences, online events...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week 10/13/20
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases August 2020 StatShot Report: “Publishing Industry Flat For Month; Down 4.6% Year To Date Trade (Consumer Book) Sales Up Nearly 7% in August” According to infoDOCKET "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today...
ATG News & Announcements 10/8/20
Two New Filings Posted in the Publisher/Internet Archive Lawsuit Including Supplemental Discovery Deadlines infoDOCKET reports that "two new court filings were posted today in the publishers/Internet Archive lawsuit. Both documents are available online via the RECAP...
ATG News You Need to Start the Week 10/5/20
ACRL 2021 Conference Going Virtual Due to COVID-19 ACRL Insider reports that "the ACRL Board of Directors announced today that the face-to-face portion of the ACRL 2021 Conference scheduled for April 14-17, 2021, in Seattle, Washington, has been canceled because...
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