By Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain) and Katina Strauch (Editor, Against the Grain) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Mitchell Davis ATG: Mitchell, after selling BookSurge to Amazon in 2005 and then working for them for a...
Considering Games in Libraries and Such — The New Normal: Opportunity or the Toll of Doom?
AND How Game Thinking Can Keep the Robots at Bay — and Sharks Column Editor: Jared Alexander Seay (Media & Services Coordinator, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424; Phone: 843-953-1428) ...
Tribute To Dan Tonkery
By Amira Aaron (Academic Library and Vendor Consultant) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Note from the author: I would like to acknowledge the help of Helen Henderson in freely sharing some details included in her profile interview with Dan in the journal,...
ATG PROFILES ENCOURAGED
Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Sandra Bozarth Interim Library DeanCSU Bakersfield9001 Stockdale Hwy Building 60Bakersifled, CA 93311Phone: (661) 654-3235https://library.csub.edu/ Born and lived: California Professional career and activities: MLIS Amanda...
Back Talk — My First Library
Column Editor: Jim O’Donnell (University Librarian, Arizona State University) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Have you ever been in a Quonset hut? Developed by the army in World War II, they were prefab structures in the shape of a half-cylinder of corrugated...
V33#2 April, 2021 Full Issue
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