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Rumors: ATG NewsChannel Edition

Leah Hinds — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:36:26 +0000

I suppose the event that has touched me the most this week was the death of Steve Jobs. I have always been a Mac fan. I remember the back page article on the Mac in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 1984, I think it was. I was typing (for the fourth time) a 600-page manuscript and my [...]

Rumors: July ATG Broadcast Edition

Leah Hinds — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:25:40 +0000

Rumors for ATG Broadcast 7-18-2011

I had to cut Rumors short in June because we ran out of room so here are some things that didn’t make it in the print issue and more!

Retirements, retirements everywhere! Jay Jordan, Mr OCLC, has announced his retirement as of June 30, 2012. Jay Jordan, the fourth president [...]

John Merriman

Katina Strauch — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:32:21 +0000

It is with great sadness that we report the death of John Merriman.

Here is one reminiscence. We are happy to print others if you will send them to kstrauch@comcast.net

I started attending NASIG in 1988, which was their 3rd conference. I was thoroughly delighted by the mix of librarians, serial agents [...]

Pearl Rose Hodges

Leah Hinds — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:11:23 +0000

Dear Katina,

Hope you are doing well! Since you posted a rumor about my pregnancy, here’s a photo of Pearl Rose Hodges (took her dad’s last name). Pearl was born on 26 April 2011 and weighed 6 lbs 3 oz & was 19 inches tall at birth. She’s thriving and about to be 5 [...]

News Flash – EBSCO to purchase H.W. Wilson

Leah Hinds — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:16:10 +0000

Just learned – EBSCO is to purchase H.W. Wilson. Wilson will reportedly be closing its Bronx office and moving the operations to Ipswich, Mass. More to come!

Collection Connection, a new collection management and development blog

Leah Hinds — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:45:41 +0000

To all librarians interested in collection management and development:

Last week, the ALCTS Collection Management Section launched a new blog entitled Collection Connection: The Library Collection Management Blog http://collectionconnection.alcts.ala.org/

Steven Harris, Director of Collections & Acquisitions Services at the University of New Mexico Libraries, is the Blogmaster, and Harriet Lightman, Head of Academic Liaison Services [...]

Random anecdotes about eBooks

Katina Strauch — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:37:46 +0000

First one. I was working on the Reference desk when a young student asked for a book (a critical discussion of a famous author) which was in the online catalog. We had it in electronic form only. She insisted that she wanted the print book and asked me if I could locate a print copy. [...]

Rumors – ATG Broadcast Edition

Leah Hinds — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:45:25 +0000

Picked this up from The Scholarly Kitchen, SSP’s fabulous blog. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ The Association of College and Research Libraries is going to make College & Research Libraries freely available to all readers effective April 1 and this is not an April Fool’s joke. The post on Scholarly Kitchen is from the astute Phil Davis who [...]

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Organizational Changes

Leah Hinds — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:10:10 +0000

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Promotes Shane P. Marmion to Vice President, James L. Moore to Senior Manager and Other Organizational Changes

Feb. 25, 2011 – William S. Hein & Co., Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Shane P. Marmion to the position of Vice President, Product Development, and James L. [...]

Do you have an suggestion for the 2011 Charleston Conference theme?

Katina Strauch — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:01:21 +0000

Our themes have come from many places. From Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Gilbert & Sullivan, Cole Porter. They have been suggested by many of our attendees. Do you have a suggestion for the 2011 Conference theme? Please send it to us! Katina Strauch and the Charleston Conference Planning Group.

About eBooks and page numbers

Katina Strauch — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:55:43 +0000

It definitely annoys me that I can’t cite a page number for an eBook. It makes the reading experience more difficult to share with others (and the web is all about sharing, right?) There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education a few days ago (February 6, 2011) about this issue — “E-Books’ [...]

Credo Reference travels to Asia

Leah Hinds — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:35:26 +0000

Jackie LaPlaca, Product Evangelist, and Michael Sweet, CEO, both of Credo Reference, have been on an incredible tour of five countries in Asia. Jackie shared some pictures and notes from their travels.

Credo Reference traveled to Hong Kong to work with the JULAC consortium and [...]

Winner of Charleston Conference Raffle for next Generation 3G Kindle

Leah Hinds — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:20:22 +0000

Institutional Investor Journals was pleased to be part of the 2010 Charleston Conference this year. A special thanks to clients who stopped by for your loyal and continued support and to the new visitors who expressed interest in our offerings.

And the winner of the next Generation 3G kindle is… Michael A. Arthur [...]

Rumors ATG Broadcast Edition

Leah Hinds — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:00:57 +0000

Horrors! I left this out of the June Print ATG Rumors!!!! How could I be so stupid??! The incredible and wonderful and perfect Joyce L. Ogburn, university librarian and director of the University of Utah Marriott Library, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She will become president-elect following [...]

Iraq Receives Control of Online Science Library

Leah Hinds — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:19:29 +0000

via Bernie Sloan:

“As Americans work toward a military handoff to full Iraqi control, they are making an intellectual handoff as well. Iraqi people today gained control of an online library built in 2006 to bolster the country’s scientific research.”

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Iraq-Receives-Control-of/24584/

Cambridge University Library receives 1.5 million pound gift

Katina Strauch — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:14:11 +0000

University Librarian Anne Jarvis says that a gift of 1.5 million pounds by Dr. Leonard Polonsky will allow the library to set up the essential infrastructure required to digitize some of its extensive collections. The first collections to be digitized will be entitled The Foundations of Faith and The Foundations of Science. The goal for [...]

Joyce Ogburn is elected Vice President/President of ACRL

Katina Strauch — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:20:02 +0000

Horrors! I left this out of the June Print ATG Rumors!!!! How could I be so stupid??!

The incredible and wonderful and perfect Joyce L. Ogburn, university librarian and director of the University of Utah Marriott Library, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She will become president-elect following [...]

Vivek Shah Buys Ziff Davis Media

Katina Strauch — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:02:25 +0000

This is from Folio Magazine — Former Time Inc. digital group president Vivek Shah has partnered with Boston-based investment firm Great Hill Partners to acquire Ziff Davis Media. The assets associated with the deal include PCMag.com, ExtremeTech, GearLog, GoodCleanTech, DL.tv, AppScout, CrankyGeeks, Smart Device Central and TechSaver.com.

http://www.foliomag.com/2010/vivek-shah-buys-ziff-davis-media

Has anyone reading this bought an iPad

Katina Strauch — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:47:09 +0000

Inquiring people like Dennis Brunning and Katina Strauch want to know. Thanks!

OCLC and H.W. Wilson to transition databases from FirstSearch to WilsonWeb

Katina Strauch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:49:28 +0000

OCLC and H.W. Wilson will work together to transition library subscriptions for H.W. Wilson databases provided on the OCLC FirstSearch service to the WilsonWeb platform over the next 16 months. Wilson will continue to index many of its databases in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local, a program that began in 2008. The commitment to work [...]