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Bet You Missed It — Press Clippings — In the News
Carefully Selected by Your Crack Staff of News Sleuths Against the Grain Vol. 33#5 Column Editor: Bruce Strauch (The Citadel, Emeritus) Bringing Forth the Jackal In late 1969, Frederick Forsyth (there’s no ‘e’ on it) was fired from the BBC, broke and...
ATG Interviews Glenda Alvin, Interim Executive Director of Libraries and Media Centers, and Associate Professor, Brown-Daniel Library, Tennessee State University
Against the Grain Vol. 33#5 By Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain) and Katina Strauch (Editor, Against the Grain) ATG: Glenda you have had a long and accomplished career as an academic librarian. But we have to ask, what first attracted you...
ATG Quirkies: How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe
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....
ATG Quirkies: Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter
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,...
Booklover — Letters and Laureates
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...
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University of Maryland: 3 iSchool Professors Awarded $1.4M to Develop Library and Archival Services – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/4/22
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...
“Caught My Eye” by Katina: How to fall back in love with reading
"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...
NISO awarded IMLS grant for collaborative collections lifecycle project – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/3/22
NISO awarded IMLS grant for collaborative collections lifecycle project Library Technology Guides reports that "The National Information Standards Organization, the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, and Lehigh University Libraries,...
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 8/2/22
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use The Library of Congress Newsroom reports that "Culminating over two years of software development and extensive user-experience testing, the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office have opened...