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...
Column Editor: Myer Kutz (President, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 More than three years afterwards, Margaret Dion-Marovitz remembers details of the minutes in 2017 when her husband, Bill, slipped away from her. It was a...
Column Editor: Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Editor and Conference Blogger) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Column Editor’s Note: Because of space limitations, the full text of my conference notes will now be available online in the issues of Against the Grain...
By Lars Meyer (Associate Dean, Access & Resource Services, Emory University Libraries) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Academic libraries have traditionally avoided buying textbooks for general or reserves collections. Typically, students have been...
Column Editors: Ramune K. Kubilius (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) and Sever Bordeianu (Head, Print Resources Section, University Libraries, MSC05 3020, 1 University of New Mexico,...
Against the Grain V33 No. 2 Don’s Conference Notes: The Virtual NISOPlus 2021 Conference by Donald T. Hawkins — see https://www.charleston-hub.com/2021/04/dons-conference-notes-the-virtual-nisoplus-2021-conference/ Altmetrics: Part 1: Celebrating A Decade of Progress...
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine According to this post in The Guardian "When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t...
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine According to this post in The Guardian "When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t...
Jason Williams named Dryad Board Chair According to this press release "Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the open availability and routine reuse of all research data, welcomes Jason Williams as chair of the Board of Directors for the...
Ebook sales continue to decline in September 2022 According to Good e-Reader "Digital book sales in the United States had one positive month this year, but for the most part, the format continues to decline month by month. Revenues were down 2.7% for the month as...
C&RL News – December 2022 is Available Online According to ACRL Insider "The December 2022 issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles. MORE LIBRARY AND...
