by Donald T. Hawkins, Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor <[email protected]> Note: A summary of this article appeared in the xxx issue of Against The Grain v30 #4 on Page aa. The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) met at the Sheraton Grand...
ATG Article of the Week: Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia
According to Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia by Megan Zahneis, recently posted on the Chronicle of Higher Education website, "LiAnna Davis remembers when people didn’t want to talk to her at academic conferences: “I had this woman one time who held her...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library actively maintain re-shelving statistics?
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Do your librarians utilize games with faculty and students for classroom learning and bibliographic instruction?
ATG Book of the Week: Licensing Electronic Resources in Academic Libraries: A Practical Handbook
Title: Licensing Electronic Resources in Academic Libraries: A Practical Handbook Authors: Corey S. Halaychik & Blake Reagan Paperback: 978-0081021071, $78.95; eBook: 9780081021088, $78.95; Bundle Print & eBook: $94.74 Imprint: Cambridge, MA : Chandos...
ATG Book of the Week: Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know
Title: Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know® Author: Rick Anderson Hardback: 9780190639440, $74; Paperback: 9780190639457, $16.95; Ebook: To purchase visit your preferred Ebook provider Imprint: New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 "The internet has...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library have a program to preserve video and/or audio tape collections?
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Have you found social media an effective method to market your services?
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WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/27/22
WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative Library Technology Guides notes that "MIT Press announced the launch of its Direct-to-Open framework. In this model, rather than purchasing licenses to eBook titles individually or through packages,...
WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/27/22
WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative Library Technology Guides notes that "MIT Press announced the launch of its Direct-to-Open framework. In this model, rather than purchasing licenses to eBook titles individually or through packages,...
Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/26/22
Music Library Association Opens Publications at Internet Archive According to Caralee Adams and the Internet Archive Blog "For librarians who specialize in caring for music collections, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest technology and resources in the...
OCLC releases more than 150 million WorldCat Entities as the foundation of a linked data infrastructure – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/25/22
OCLC releases more than 150 million WorldCat Entities as the foundation of a linked data infrastructure Citing an OCLC press release, Library Technology Guides reports that "OCLC has completed a project, funded in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, to...
NASA and CHORUS sign participation agreement to expand public access to results of its funded research – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 5/24/22
NASA and CHORUS sign participation agreement to expand public access to results of its funded research KnowledgeSpeak reports that "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has signed a participation agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the...