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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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ATG Quirkies: Do Vampires Really Exist?
Do Vampires Really Exist is by Matthew Wills who has advanced degrees in library science and film studies and has written for numerous publications. It appears in JSTOR Daily. (Poster promoting a circa-1960s theatrical reissue of the 1931 film Dracula via Wikimedia...
ATG Quirkies: Do Vampires Really Exist?
Do Vampires Really Exist is by Matthew Wills who has advanced degrees in library science and film studies and has written for numerous publications. It appears in JSTOR Daily. (Poster promoting a circa-1960s theatrical reissue of the 1931 film Dracula via Wikimedia...
National Archives (NARA) Celebrates 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/27/21
Milestones: National Archives (NARA) Celebrates 150 Million Digital Copies in the Catalog According to infoDOCKET "the number of digital copies of our records in the National Archives Catalog has just surpassed 150 million. Digitizing large quantities of our...
Clarivate Shares Its Annual G20 Scorecard for Research Performance – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 10/26/21
Clarivate Shares Its Annual G20 Scorecard for Research Performance According to Information Today "Clarivate released “The Annual G20 Scorecard—Research Performance 2021” (registration required), a report that “examines the research performance of each of the member...
ATG Quirkies: “How to Summon Spirits”
"How to Summon Spirits" is an article by the Editors of JSTOR Daily that explores various articles and stories appearing in "The Spiritualist, a newspaper published from 1869-1882, that was filled with tales of supernatural phenomena and tips for communicating with...
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