Column Editor:  Thomas W. Leonhardt  (Retired, Eugene, OR  97404)  After reading Michael Vinson’s Bluffing Texas Style twice and skimming it once, I am still baffled.  Part of my confusion lies in the book’s structure;  it begins at the end and then switches...

by Tom Gilson  (Associate Editor, Against the Grain)  and Katina Strauch  (Editor, Against the Grain)  ATG:  Khal, when Adam Matthew Digital (AM Digital) became part of the SAGE Group a few years ago, you told us that growing new markets and expanding your...

By: Bo Baker, MLIS  (Public & Research Services Dept. Head, UTC Library, University of Tennessee Chattanooga) and Theresa Liedtka, MLIS  (Dean, UTC Library)  Philosophy and Initiation Staffing responsibilities and models create and shape a library culture and its...

Column Editors:  Nicole Ameduri  (Licensing Manager, Springer Nature)  and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe  (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  Nicole’s Picks Since the start of the global pandemic, I’ve been avoiding in-person dining at...

by Jennie M. Burroughs  (Interim Co-Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning, University of Minnesota)  Against the Grain is pleased to include the following two additional articles on “Innovative Staffing Models at Academic Libraries” that were...

Column Editor:  Myer Kutz  (President, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.)  How many of us expect to leave behind an immediately recognizable footprint years after we no longer work in a profession?  Who will remember most of us?  Beyond, I mean, colleagues with...