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v30 #2 Consortial Partnerships with Libraries and Vendors
by George Machovec (Executive Director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) Introduction By definition, library consortia are partnerships between libraries to accomplish common goals such as reducing costs, sharing expertise, and enhancing services. Consortia...
v30 #2 The Care and Feeding of Partnerships
by Maggie Farrell (Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas) <maggie.farrell@unlv.edu> Partnerships, like any relationship, require care and attention to ensure that there is a productive relationship. Often it is not the funding nor technology that...
ATG News & Announcements 3/28/18
Revised Standards for Libraries in Higher Education; *Big federal funding increases for libraries; *CRS reports will be public; *AAAS celebrates federal spending increases for scientific research; * Digital delivery breathes new life into professional books and...
ATG Quirkies: Bookstore as Automat in Beijing
According to this post by Charles Liu at the beijinger.com "late night shoppers looking with a need to buy books will have their very specific conditions met in Beijing as 20 new staffless bookstores that will operate 24 hours a day are expected to open throughout the...
v29 #6 The Scholarly Publishing Scene — Annual PROSE Awards Science and Math Books Roundup
Column Editor: Myer Kutz (President, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.) The cartons, sent from Association of American Publishers headquarters in Washington, DC, began appearing on the stoop in front of the kitchen door (which is on the driveway side, near the front of...
v29 #6 Ensuring Access to Government Information
by Shari Laster (Head, Open Stack Collections, Arizona State University) and Lynda Kellam (Social Science Data Librarian, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) In the United States, the dominant paradigm of research libraries as content managers for print...
ATG Quirkies: With So Many Library Discards This May Come In Handy
In this post, the folks at Biblio.com offer some practical hints for those of us who frequent library book sales. They provide expert advice on how to remove library markings from books that have suffered the indignities of numerous circulations. Admitting that...
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Tea Time With Katina and Leah
12-1-23 Derek Law presents Darrell Gunter with the Swamp Fox award Darrell Gunter won the Whova most active member in the community leaderboard competition and was awarded a stuffed Swamp Fox (named after the restaurant in the Francis Marion). Plus many...
Tea Time With Katina and Leah
12-1-23 Derek Law presents Darrell Gunter with the Swamp Fox award Darrell Gunter won the Whova most active member in the community leaderboard competition and was awarded a stuffed Swamp Fox (named after the restaurant in the Francis Marion). Plus many...
R&D Expenditures at U.S. Universities Increased by $8 Billion in FY 2022 – Plus More ATG News And Announcements for 12/1/23
R&D Expenditures at U.S. Universities Increased by $8 Billion in FY 2022 According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), research and development spending by academic institutions totaled $97.8 billion in FY 2022, an increase of...
The best new e-readers of 2023 – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 11/29/23
The best new e-readers of 2023 Good eReader observers that "The year 2023 is drawing to a close and there has been enough e-readers and e-notes launched to keep us engaged all year through. However, as we approach the end of another exciting year, it is also time to...
Research Solutions Announces Acquisition of scite – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 11/28/23
Research Solutions Announces Acquisition of scite According to this press release "Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a trusted partner providing cloud-based workflow solutions to accelerate research for R&D-driven organizations, today announced their...
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