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Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/2/21
Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 ACRL Insider reports that "The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2021 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during...
“The State of Open Data 2021 – Global Attitudes Towards Open Data” Published Today – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/1/21
“The State of Open Data 2021 – Global Attitudes Towards Open Data” Published Today According to infoDOCKET "Figshare, Digital Science, and Springer Nature’s annual State of Open Data report finds increasing concern among researchers about misuse of data as well as a...
ATG Quirkies: Luis Soriano Had a Dream, Two Donkeys, and a Lot of Books
Luis Soriano Had a Dream, Two Donkeys, and a Lot of Books appears on the Atlas Obscura website and is by Jordan Salama, a writer and journalist whose works has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Smithsonian, and more. Photo by Jordan Salama...
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ATG Job Bank 11/28/21
NORTHEAST Electronic Resources Specialist, Swarthmore College, PA Head of Library Community Engagement, Brown University, Providence, RI Evening Circulation and Reserves Supervisor, Baker Berry Library, Dartmouth College(NH) Islamic Manuscript Project...
ATG Job Bank – 11/1/21
Northeast Head, Library Technologies and Innovation, University of Maine, Orono, ME Reference & Instruction Librarian, Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons (Wentworth Institute of Technology), Boston, MA Access Services Supervisor, Amherst College,...
ATG Job Bank – NERL Program Manager
Are you an e-resources professional who wants to make a difference? Know someone who is? Please help us find great candidates to fill this critical position. NERL invites applications for this exciting new opportunity to work with our national network of research...
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Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/2/21
Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 ACRL Insider reports that "The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2021 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. This year’s list features 440 books and digital resources from 132 publishers..." Clarivate Successfully Completes Acquisition of ProQuest According to PR Newswire "Clarivate...
Closing Session and Poll-A-Palooza
Sandy Avila, Science Librarian and Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services Librarian, both at the University of Central Florida coordinated the immensely popular closing session. The Palooza featured questions to which the audience answered using polling software. Here...
On the (Open Access) Road Again: Is the Value of the Big Deal Declining?
Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver, described studies about the value of the Big Deal. He presented a report last year on a study of the growth in OA publishing,but that does not have an effect on Big Deals. According to Delta Think, the...
Free Falling: Hiring and Onboarding Remotely During a Pandemic
Erin Gallagher and Jason Heckathorn from the Acquisitions and Collections Department in the library at the University of Florida said that they like others were required to work from home.in March 2020 which was in a hiring freeze. There were 3 open positions, and...