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ATG Book of the Week: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Title: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Author: Maryanne Wolf Hardcover: 978-0062388780, $16:50 (There are also Kindle, Audiobook, and MP3 CD versions available.) Imprint: New York: Harper, 2018 "From the author of Proust and the Squid, a...
ATG Article of the Week: The 21st Century Library
The 21st Century Library By James Bikales This article appears in the Harvard Political Review and notes that when one enters the Harvard’s flagship Widener Library today one is no longer confronted by "the musty scent of old paperback. The groan of a creaky, carpeted...
ATG Book of the Week: What is the History of the Book
Title: What is the History of the Book Author: James Raven Hardcover: 978-0745641614, $59.95; Paperback: 978-0745641621, $19.95 Imprint: Cambridge, UK: Polity Books, 2018 James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does Your Library Use Demand Driven Acquisitions or Patron Driven Acquisitions?
ATG Article of the Week: A Course Experiment Tackles Textbook Costs
This post in Inside Higher Ed recounts how "students in California drafted a bill to urge publishers to reveal how their textbooks changed between editions. The students convinced lawmakers to adopt the legislation." "The students in the California Bill Project class...
ATG Article of the Week: Want to Improve Student Retention? Enlist Some Librarians
Sean Kennedy of the UNLV News Center reports that "a national, multi-institutional study finds that academic library instruction helps keep undergraduates in school. "What comes to mind when you think of how university librarians help undergraduate students? Research...
ATG Book of the Week: Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America
Title: Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America Author: Zeke Jarvis Hardcover: 978-1440843945, $94 Imprint: Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2017 "Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across...
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‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/8/22
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine According to this post in The Guardian "When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t...
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/8/22
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine According to this post in The Guardian "When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t...
Jason Williams named Dryad Board Chair – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/7/22
Jason Williams named Dryad Board Chair According to this press release "Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the open availability and routine reuse of all research data, welcomes Jason Williams as chair of the Board of Directors for the...
Ebook sales continue to decline in September 2022 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/6/22
Ebook sales continue to decline in September 2022 According to Good e-Reader "Digital book sales in the United States had one positive month this year, but for the most part, the format continues to decline month by month. Revenues were down 2.7% for the month as...
C&RL News – December 2022 is Available Online – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 12/5/22
C&RL News – December 2022 is Available Online According to ACRL Insider "The December 2022 issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles. MORE LIBRARY AND...
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