Welcome to the 2021 Charleston Conference blog! For many of us, the Charleston Conference is a milestone--it is the first in-person conference we have attended in over a year, and for those coming from other parts of the country, the first time we have traveled by...
Catherine Baab-Muguira on Doubling Down on Your Ambitions Edgar Allan Poe When Edgar Allan Poe was 17 years old, he and John Allan loaded up the family station wagon with all his clothes, posters, and books, and made the 70-mile trek west to Charlottesville, Virginia....
Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter is written by Thomas S. Mullaney and appears on the Fast Company website Photo: IBM Naturally, Mr. Mullaney highlights the skills and talents of Lois Lew who operated "the improbable,...
Column Editor: Donna Jacobs (Retired, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 As a person who has had many pen pals during my lifetime, I have often wondered: Will email exchanges between contemporaries be...
Column Editor: Steve Rosato (Director and Business Development Executive, OverDrive Professional, Cleveland, OH 44125) Against the Grain Vol. 33 No. 2 Marking twelve months (and counting!) of navigating through the COVID pandemic, we are...
Bookish Exteriors: Libraries That Look Like Books was written by Gianessa Refermat and appears on the BookRiot website. "I love a good library and bookstore. I’ve covered some lovely ones in Seoul and detailed the special events and services that others provide...
Do Vampires Really Exist is by Matthew Wills who has advanced degrees in library science and film studies and has written for numerous publications. It appears in JSTOR Daily. (Poster promoting a circa-1960s theatrical reissue of the 1931 film Dracula via Wikimedia...
Do Vampires Really Exist is by Matthew Wills who has advanced degrees in library science and film studies and has written for numerous publications. It appears in JSTOR Daily. (Poster promoting a circa-1960s theatrical reissue of the 1931 film Dracula via Wikimedia...
Milestones: National Archives (NARA) Celebrates 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog According to infoDOCKET "the number of digital copies of our records in the National Archives Catalog has just surpassed 150 million. Digitizing large quantities of our...
Clarivate Shares Its Annual G20 Scorecard for Research Performance According to Information Today "Clarivate released “The Annual G20 Scorecard—Research Performance 2021” (registration required), a report that “examines the research performance of each of the member...
"How to Summon Spirits" is an article by the Editors of JSTOR Daily that explores various articles and stories appearing in "The Spiritualist, a newspaper published from 1869-1882, that was filled with tales of supernatural phenomena and tips for communicating with...
