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ATG News & Announcements – 1/15/21
ATG News & Announcements - 1/15/21 MSU Libraries Join Other Big Ten Libraries to Create Collection Available to All Big Ten University Faculty, Staff, and Students ARL Communications Day in Review notes that "in a historic and unprecedented maneuver for a group of...
ATG Quirkies: The Pythagorean Cup
ATG Quirkies: The Pythagorean Cup You can be forgiven if you think that the Pythagorean Cup is an ingenious geometric theorem. But of course you'd be wrong. It is actually a clever practical joke that amused the ancient Greeks - at least according to this post in...
ATG News & Announcements 1/13/21
ATG News & Announcements 1/13/21 Ithaka S+R: “Data Repository Platforms: A Primer” According to infoDOCKET, Ithaka S+R reports that they "decided to conduct exploratory, high-level research on a number of data repositories, primarily to inform our own data deposit...
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ATG Job bank – Librarians – 12/29/20
ATG Job bank - Librarians - 12/29/20 Library of Congress Announces 2021 Librarians-in-Residence Program The Library of Congress has announced the 2021 Librarians-in-Residence program to offer early career librarians the opportunity to develop their expertise and...
ATG Job Bank – Publishers – 12/28/20
IEEE Board of Directors Administrator - Jack Farrell & Associates - Piscataway, New Jersey "... This role reports to the Senior Director, Corporate Governance, and is responsible for ensuring each member of the IEEE Board of Directors and the IEEE Assembly has the...
Job Opening: Marketing and Digital Communication Manager, Charleston Hub
Job Description: Marketing and Digital Communication Manager Hours: Part Time (avg 10 hrs/week); Independent Contractor (1099 Employee) Job Location: Works Remotely Reporting to: Editor, Against the Grain, and Executive Director, Charleston Library Conference Company...
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ATG News & Announcements – 1/15/21
ATG News & Announcements - 1/15/21 MSU Libraries Join Other Big Ten Libraries to Create Collection Available to All Big Ten University Faculty, Staff, and Students ARL Communications Day in Review notes that "in a historic and unprecedented maneuver for a group of independent universities, the University Library Deans and Directors of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have committed to managing the separate collections of Big Ten university libraries as a single collection. As part...
A New Era For Copyright and IP Holders-The Case Act Creates New Path for Smaller IP Claims, And Google May Lose A Big Case
By: Kent Anderson, “The Geyser” Kent Anderson The most recent US Covid relief bill, signed into law on December 27, 2020, contains a surprising number of positive changes and new laws, many focused on anti-corruption. Another thing that made its way in was the...
[email protected]: Part 1 – Global Information Network Celebrated A Major Anniversary
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries While studying at the University of Arizona Graduate Library School in 1992, Rick Gates conducted monthly Internet Hunts as a way for people (largely students) to...
ATG Quirkies: Inside the World of British Brickophiles
In this post, Atlas Obscura contributor Karen Chernick focuses on the humble practice of British brick collecting. Available via Wikimedia Commons Evidently, devoted aficionados are drawn by the sometimes ornate indentations embossed on the top side of each brick. not...