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Our Wicked Discovery Problem Part One: Inconvenient and Boring
by Steven J. Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University Libraries Editor’s Note: In Part One, Steven makes the case that we have a significant problem with our discovery systems, using information from a recent webinar and study on library discovery and access. In Part Two, coming next week, Steven will share recommendations from the study and his own conclusions about the actions librarians need to take before we are hopelessly irrelevant to the next generation of information...
Trendspotting at SSP 2022
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) Editor's Note: This article will also be published in an upcoming issue of Against the Grain as part of the "Don's Conference Notes" column. The Trendspotting Initiative, by Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor at...
Rhyme, Russian, Revolution, and Reason
by Donna Jacobs, Retired, Medical University of South Carolina Editor's Note: This post is taken from Donna's "Booklover" column in the April 2022 issue of Against the Grain, v 34 #2, pg. 34. This Booklover has been in word heaven lately; so many provocative...
Mixing with Royalty: Conferences and Creative Thinking
By Derek Law, Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde One of the very few benefits of Covid-19 is that I have been using my local public library much more and using serendipity wandering round the shelves to find new things to read. On a recent visit I came...
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News conference on major development in big publishers’ legal attack on libraries and digital lending (scheduled July 8th) – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/7/22
News conference on major development in big publishers' legal attack on libraries and digital lending According to Library Technology Guides "The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in...
The Increasingly Complicated World Of Citation Part 2: Changing Methods & Applications
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries In a new 2022 Scientometrics assessment of the three core citation indexes – Web of Science, Dimensions and Scopus – German scientists concluded that “WoS largely...
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) are creating a scholarly publishing position reference directory – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/6/22
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) are creating a first-of-its-kind scholarly publishing position reference directory The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the Association of University Presses...
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ATG Job Bank for 7/5/22
NORTH Research and Instruction Librarian - Williams College – Williamstown, MA Arts Librarian, Drama, Theater, Art History - Yale University, CT Head of Arts Library Access Services - Yale University, CT Head, Digital Initiatives, Tisch Library, Tufts University,...
ATG Job Bank: Head of Partnership Development (Remote, North America) – Dryad
Head of Partnership Development (Remote, North America) - Dryad Dryad is recruiting a Head of Partnership Development to help grow the community of academic and research institutions, research funders, journals and publishers that invest in us to pursue the open...
ATG Job Bank: Program Manager, Strategic Research & Market Analysis at ITHAKA
Program Manager, Strategic Research & Market Analysis at ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome...