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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ATG Job Bank for 10/1/23
NORTH Business Research Librarian Professional, MIT Lincoln Library, Lexington, MA Consortial Systems Librarian - University of Maryland Libraries - College Park, MD Multiple Positions, CUNY Queens College, NY Assistant Director, Content Access - Princeton University...
Tea Time With Katina and Leah
9-29-23 What wonderful people you meet living on the water at Sullivan’s Island! Just met Jake and Ruby and their teenage adult/children. They have come all the way from North Dakota and some of them have never seen the ocean! They have moved their business from North...
From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries – Webcast – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/29/23
From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries - Webcast (ACRL) Join ACRL from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central on Wednesday, October 11 for the Online Learning webcast “From Dall-E to ChatGPT: Navigating AI in Academic Libraries. Lately, it seems like everywhere...
University of Leeds Research Report on Potentials for AI in LIbraries – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/28/23
University of Leeds Research Report on Potentials for AI in LIbraries According to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) "The Library at the University of Leeds in the UK has just issued a fascinating report on AI in what they call “library spaces” titled...