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ATG Star of the Week: Susan Stearns, VP, Strategic Partnerships, Ex Libris Group

gilsont — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:15:10 +0000

Name: Susan Stearns
Position: VP, Strategic Partnerships Organization: Ex Libris Group
Email: susan.stearns@exlibrisgroup.com
Website: exlibrisgroup.com

Born and Lived: Born in Urbana, Illinois. Lived in Illinois, Virginia, and London as well as now in Massachusetts.

Professional Career and Activities: Librarian at Virginia Union and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and Corporate Librarian [...]

ATG “I wonder” Wednesday: Are you considering, or have you already integrated your reference collection into the circulating collection?

gilsont — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:04:02 +0000

ATG Book of the Week: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949

gilsont — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:29:23 +0000

Title: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 Editor: Julia Eichelberger Cloth: ISBN 978-1-61703-187-8; $45 Imprint: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Generally we reserve our book of the week for titles related to libraries and publishing but we couldn’t resist posting this book by a member of the [...]

ATG Star of the Week: Michael Arthur, Head of Acquisitions & Collection Services, University of Central Florida Libraries

gilsont — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:23:30 +0000

Name: Michael A. Arthur Title: Head of Acquisitions & Collection Services Organization: University of Central Florida Libraries Address: UCF Libraries, 12701 Pegasus Drive, Orlando, FL, 32816-2666 Phone: 407-882-0143 Fax: 407-823-1424 Email: Michael.arthur@ucf.edu

Born and lived: I was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and lived there until I completed by MLS and accepted my first [...]

ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Do you have an electronic resource management component as part of your ILS?

gilsont — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:06:13 +0000

Hot Topics of the Week

hindsl — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:53:34 +0000

by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

In February, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy “directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account [...]

ATG Article of the Week: Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains

gilsont — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:18:30 +0000

“Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains” is an article by Clifford Lynch Coalition for Networked Information executive director. It appears in the latest American Libraries digital supplement, Digital Content: What’s Next? and provides an insightful and provocative critique of the current world of ebooks [...]

ATG Star of the Week: Philippe Boisvert, Subject Librarian, Engineering and Physics, Université Laval

gilsont — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:44:11 +0000

Name: Philippe Boisvert
Position: Subject Librarian Library: Engineering and Physics, Université Laval
Email:philippe.boisvert@bibl.ulaval.ca Website: http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/

Born and Lived: I was born in a small town of the province of Quebec, in Canada. I lived most of my life in that province, but also lived almost 3 years in [...]

ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Is Facebook past its prime?

gilsont — Thu, 30 May 2013 19:25:37 +0000

ATG Book of the Week: Web Analytics Strategies for Information Professionals: A LITA Guide

gilsont — Mon, 27 May 2013 15:09:10 +0000

Title: Web Analytics Strategies for Information Professionals: A LITA Guide Authors: Tabatha Farney & Nina McHale Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-1-55570-897-9, $70 Imprint: Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2013

“Whether you’re gathering information for a department report or planning a website redesign, easy access to meaningful, actionable data is critical. Farney and McHale address the [...]

ATG Star of the Week: Carolyn Bain, President, Bain Pugh & Associates

gilsont — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:31:22 +0000

Name: Carolyn Bain
Position: President Organization: Bain Pugh & Associates, Inc.
Email: bainpugh@verizon.net

Born and Lived: Austin, TX born; New Orleans, LA grew up; Dallas, TX (Southern Methodist University BFA and MFA); Birmingham, AL (Univ of Alabama-Birmingham) worked; Dallas, TX worked; Washington, DC area worked.

Professional Career and [...]

ATG Article of Week: Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access

gilsont — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:00:03 +0000

Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access is an article posted at PBS’s MediaShift website by Lucy Bernholz a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a Fellow with the Hybrid Reality Institute and former Fellow of the New America Foundation. In short, she is [...]

ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library collect self-published books?

gilsont — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:33:43 +0000

ATG Book(s) of the Week: THE TECH SET® #11-20

gilsont — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:15:37 +0000

Title: THE TECH SET® #11-20 Editor: Ellyssa Kroski Paperback: ISBN: 9781555708092, $59.95 ea. $600 for set
Imprint: Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2012

Now TECH SET® series editor Ellyssa Kroski brings you the field’s hottest tech gurus as they provide practical instructions and advice on everything from planning and development to marketing and metrics. [...]

ATG Star of The Week: Margaret Hogarth, Electronic Resources and Acquisitions Librarian, Claremont University Consortium

gilsont — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:19:52 +0000

Name: Margaret Hogarth Position: Electronic Resources and Acquisitions Librarian, Institution: Claremont University Consortium
Email: margaret_hogarth@cuc.claremont.edu
Website: http://libraries.claremont.edu/

Born and Lived: Born in Burbank, California; Lived in Panorama City, Chatsworth, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Hayward, and Chino Hills, California; Lived in Taipei, Taiwan for one year.

Professional Career and Activities: Pool reference [...]

ATG Article of the Week: Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries

gilsont — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:53:39 +0000

Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries is an article by Meredith Schwartz that was posted on the Library Journal website last week.

There has been a lot of talk about libraries and MOOCs lately as librarians try [...]

ATG Book of the Week: From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

gilsont — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:58:55 +0000

Title: From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Editor: Anouk Lang Cloth: 978-1-55849-952-2, $80
Paper:978-1-55849-953-9, $28.95 Imprint: Amhurst: Univ. of Massachusetts, 2012

“The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, [...]

Hot Topics of the Week

hindsl — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:19:35 +0000

by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College

In case you haven’t yet explored the Digital Public Library of America, the Guardian has a nice rundown, including some of the DPLA’s ideas for the future, such as the “authors’ alliance” and the “library licence.”

By the way, several years ago I saw Harper Lee being [...]

ATG Star of the Week: Mitchell Davis, Chief Business Officer, BiblioLabs

gilsont — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:10:26 +0000

Name: Mitchell Davis Position: Chief Business Officer, Organization: BiblioLabs. 360 Concord Street, Charleston, SC 29403 Phone: (843) 408-2303 Email: mitchell@bibliolabs.com Website: http://www.biblioboard.com

Born and lived: Charleston, SC.

Early life: I grew up in Summerville, a suburb of Charleston, where I played some sports but mostly tried to be popular. I then went [...]

ATG “I wonder” Wednesday: Does your library provide 3D printers for student and faculty use that can create three-dimentional solid objects?

gilsont — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:17:36 +0000