ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library have an e-first policy for patron book purchase requests?
ATG Book of the Week: Building Digital Libraries, Second Edition
Title: Building Digital Libraries, Second Edition Authors: Kyle Banerjee and Terry Reese, Jr. Softcover: 978-0-8389-1635-3, $85 Imprint: Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2018 Whether you’re embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library house and loan virtual reality equipment?
ATG Book of the Week: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
Title: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life Author: Annie Spence Hardcover: 978-1250106490, $19.99. Imprint: Flatiron Books, 2017 "A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply...
ATG ” I Wonder” Wednesday: Have any of your college’s faculty fallen victim to a predatory publisher?
ATG Book of the Week: The Diary of a Bookseller
Title: The Diary of a Bookseller Author: Shaun Bythell Hardcover: 978-1781258620, $20.99 Imprint: London: Profile Books Ltd, 2017 Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: If your library has a print reference collection, does it circulate?
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Celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/27/23
Celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 According to ACRL Insider "Peer Review Week is annual event celebrating the value of peer review and the essential role it plays in maintaining research quality. Running from September 25 to 29, 2023, it brings together scholarly...
MIT Libraries Receives Grant From Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research Program – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/26/23
MIT Libraries Receives Grant From Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research Program According to this post on the MIT Libraries website "MIT Libraries has received a grant of $500,000 from the Mellon Foundation for a second cohort in the postdoctoral research...
New Report: “Alternative Publishing Platforms. What Have We Learnt?” – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 9/25/23
New Report: “Alternative Publishing Platforms. What Have We Learnt?” Citing Knowledge Exchange, infoDOCKET reports that "Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from...
ATG Job Bank for 9/24/23
NORTH Education Librarian - UMass Amherst Coordinator of Information Literacy, Lehman College, NY Head of University Archives Reference Services, HUA, Cambridge, MA Assessment Coordinator - University of Pittsburgh Libraries - Pennsylvania Open Educational Resources...