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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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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...
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 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...
ATG Job Bank for 7/5/22
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SSP’s new pilot programme connects scholarly publishing professionals with shared interests – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/5/22
SSP’s new pilot programme connects scholarly publishing professionals with shared interests KnowledgeSpeak reports that "The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is piloting a new programme for connecting scholarly publishing professionals with others who share...
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