August 22, 2018, 2:00 pm Eastern Register Now! Join several of our featured article authors for a discussion of the upcoming September issue of Against the Grain. The (Not So) Accidental Ontologist and other Tales of Alternative Librarianship: David Bender, Librarian...
ATG Original: Open Access Foments a Textbook Takeover, Part 3: Bringing Choice into a “Broken” Educational System
By Nancy K. Herther (Click here for Part 1: OER Takes Main Stage; and here for Part 2: Should Commercial Publishers Worry? ) Between 2006 and 2016, the cost of higher education has risen by 63% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries, less federal...
THERE IS STILL TIME TO NOMINATE YOUR TREND STORM FOR ATG’s TRENDSPOTTING INITIATIVE!
Building last year’s FutureLab, the Charleston Conference invites broad participation in our new ATG Trendspotting Initiative, a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and...
Reminder: Fast Pitch Competition Nomination Deadline
Proposal and Nomination deadline is Friday, July 20! The Charleston Fast Pitch competition encourages proposals for ideas on improving or transforming the work environment at a library, or any information-related enterprise or organization in educational technology....
ATG Original: Open Access Foments a Textbook Takeover, Part 2: Should Commercial Publishers Worry?
by Nancy K. Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota (herther@umn.edu) ( Click here for Part 1: OER Takes Main Stage ) A 2014 article by McKinsey & Company analysts considered the future of textbooks. The rise of online superstores like...
ATG Original: “Open Access Foments a Textbook Takeover, Part 1: OER Takes Main Stage
by Nancy K. Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota (herther@umn.edu) (Click here for Part 2: Should Commercial Publishers Worry?) In a just-released Survey of American College Students: Use of Textbooks & Open Access Educational...
ATG Original: Reading in a Digital Age: Some Further Thoughts and Analysis
By David Durant (This article offers some further thoughts and ideas from David Durant expanding on his recently published Charleston Briefing: Reading in a Digital Age.) The advent of digital reading has produced a tremendous debate on the future of the book, and of...
Announcing the new ATG Trendspotting Initiative!
Building last year’s FutureLab, the Charleston Conference invites broad participation in our new ATG Trendspotting Initiative, a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and...
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ATG Job Bank for 3/26/23
NORTH Research Librarian, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Instruction Librarian / Electronic Resource - SUNY Cobleskill - Cobleskill, NY Head, East Asian Library - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian - Mercy College, Dobbs...
ATG Job Bank for 3/26/23
NORTH Research Librarian, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Instruction Librarian / Electronic Resource - SUNY Cobleskill - Cobleskill, NY Head, East Asian Library - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian - Mercy College, Dobbs...
ATG Newsflash: Internet Archive is Liable for Copyright Infringement, Court Rules
Internet Archive is Liable for Copyright Infringement, Court Rules appears on the TorrentFreak website and is by Ernesto Van der Sar. "The Internet Archive's online book lending library is not protected by the fair use exception to copyright. Major book publishers...
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/24/23
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...
Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 3/23/23
Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools GoodEReader reports that "The Writers Guild of America is proposing to allow its authors to employ ChatGPT and other AI tools to write scripts for television and movies. There are a few use cases that the Guild...