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...
By Meg White (Senior Consultant, DeltaThink; Director of Vendor Partnerships, Charleston Hub) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 We’ve all been there … a delicious meal, fine wine, the outstanding company of a large group of friends and colleagues. A good time...
By Lisa Romano (Head of Technical Services, University of Massachusetts, Boston) Column Editors: Kyle Banerjee (Sr. Implementation Consultant, FOLIO Services) www.ebsco.com www.folio.org and Susan J. Martin (Chair, Collection Development and Management,...
By Anne Osterman (VIVA Director) and Genya O’Gara (Viva Deputy Director) and Sophie Rondeau (Assessment & E-Resources Program Analyst) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium (https://vivalib.org/),...
By Frank Vrancken Peeters (CEO, Springer Nature) www.springernature.com Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Note From Your Editor: Do you have a point of view or comment to share with us at ATG? We are introducing this new column “Expert Commentaries from...
By Sandra Bozarth (Interim Dean, Stiern Library, CSUB) and Amanda Grombly (Collection Development and Management Coordinator, Stiern Library, CSUB) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) has actively...
Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform Publishing Perspectives reports that " a migration of Oxford University Press‘ books as well as journals to the online platform Oxford Academic announced Wednesday (August 3) is expected to “further...
Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform Publishing Perspectives reports that " a migration of Oxford University Press‘ books as well as journals to the online platform Oxford Academic announced Wednesday (August 3) is expected to “further...
A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos is by Nell Clark an editor at Morning Edition and a writer for NPR's Live Blog. Her piece appears on the NPR website. Photo illustration: Vanessa Leroy and Nell Clark via Oakland...
University of Maryland: 3 iSchool Professors Awarded $1.4M to Develop Library and Archival Service Citing Maryland Today, infoDOCKET reports that "Three College of Information Studies faculty members have been awarded a total of $1.4 million from the Institute of...
"How to fall back in love with reading" is by Alissa Wilkinson and appears in Vox. "I doubt you need to be told you should be reading more. There’s a good chance you struggle to make time for reading, and it feels like just another obligation, like hitting your daily...
