ATG NewsChannel will feature a special post each day of the week:

Monday: Book of the Week

Monday
Book of the Week
February 20, 2012 Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550
February 13, 2012 Making the Archives Talk: New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Editing, and Book History
February 6, 2012 Collection Development in the Digital Age
January 30, 2012 No Shelf Required 2: Use and Management of Electronic Books
January 23, 2012 Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
January 16, 2012 How to Fix Copyright
January 9, 2012 Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
January 2, 2012 Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators
December 27, 2011 Practical Strategies for Cataloging Departments
December 22, 2011 Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog
November 29, 2011 The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with e-Science?
November 14, 2011 Reclaiming Fair Use
October 31, 2011 The Rise of Charleston
October 24, 2011 E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts
October 17, 2011 Patron-Driven Acquisitions: History and Best Practices
October 10, 2011 Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management, 2011 Edition
October 3, 2011 New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media
September 26, 2011 Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collection Libraries
September 19, 2011 The Fate of Reading and Other Essays
September 12, 2011 Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
September 5, 2011 The Digital Wunderkammer: 10 Chapters on the Iconic Turn
August 29, 2011 The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsssion and the Creation of an American Culture
August 22, 2011 Library Use of the Mega Internet Sites, 2011-2012 Edition
August 8, 2011 Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex and Politics
August 1, 2011 InterLibrary Loan Practices Handbook
July 25, 2011 Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created by American Popular Culture
July 18, 2011 John Bachman: Selected Writings on Science, Race and Religion
July 11, 2011 The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture
July 4, 2011 Workplace Learning & Leadership : A Handbook for Library and Nonprofit Trainers
June 27, 2011 A Librarian’s Guide to an Uncertain Job Market
June 20, 2011 The Internet of Elsewhere
June 13, 2011 Library Use of eBooks
June 6, 2011 Boredom: A Lively History
May 30, 2011 The Alice Behind Wonderland
May 23, 2011 Expanding the American Mind
May 16, 2011 The Stewart/Colbert Effect
May 9, 2011 Acquisitions in the New Information Universe
May 2, 2011 Charleston Primer for Yankees
April 25, 2011 Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
April 18, 2011 Opportunity for All
April 11, 2011 Information History in the Modern World
April 4, 2011 Information Concepts
March 28, 2011 In Praise of Copying
March 21, 2011 The Information
March 14, 2011 Gray Lady Down: What the decline and fall of The New York Times means for America
March 7, 2011 The Atlas of New Librarianship
February 28, 2011 The Secret Life of Words
February 21, 2011 Library: An Unquiet History
February 14, 2011 Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since the Statute of Anne, from 1709 to Cyberspace

We at ATG headquarters receive many books for review but our Book of the Week will not necessarily be a book that we received for review. How will we select the Book of the Week? Anyone can nominate a candidate. Just send suggestions to either Leah Hinds or Katina Strauch at hindsl@gmail.com or kstrauch@comcast.net Some of the guidelines:

1) The book should be relevant to us in acquisitions of collection development or scholarly communication.

2) More than likely the book will be non-fiction but we are not against fiction if if’s relevant.

3) The book doesn’t have to be recently published, just important to us in acquisitions, collection development, or scholarly communication!

Send us your nominations anytime with a brief (100 word!) explanation.

Tuesday: Article of the Week

Tuesday
Article of the Week
February 21, 2012 Global Pressure on Peer Review
February 14, 2012 Shelf Conscious
February 7, 2012 Fair Use Ferment
January 31, 2012 Sometimes You Just Have to Start Over
January 24, 2012 Campus Reactions to Apple’s Entry Into E-Textbook Market
January 17, 2012 Rise of the New Groupthink
January 10, 2012 Ten Bold Predictions for Book Publishing in 2012; Five Big Publishing Stories of 2011 That Will Bleed Into 2012
January 5, 2012 Lies and Damn Lies: Issues in Collection Development
December 27, 2011 Digital Domain: Publishers vs. Librarians: An E-Book Tug of War
December 20, 2011 What We should Learn from the Collapse of Borders
December 13, 2011 E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores
December 6, 2011 Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries
November 29, 2011 What We Should Learn from the Collapse of Borders
October 18, 2011 The Revolution Will Not Be Subscription-Based
October 11, 2011 Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews
October 4, 2011 EBooks, Privacy and the Library
September 27, 2011 Give ‘Em What They Want: A One-year Study of Unmediated Patron-Driven Acquision of E-Books
September 20, 2011 The Biographer’s New Best Friend
September 13, 2011 Why an eBook Still Needs an Index
September 6, 2011 20 Coolest iPad Ideas for Your Library
August 30, 2011 Books & Media Move to the Clouds; Apple, Amazon and Walmart Fight for Market Share
August 23, 2011 Whither ILL? Wither ILL: The Changing Nature of Resource Sharing for E-Books
August 16, 2011 ArXiv at 20
August 9, 2011 Using a Request for Proposal to Select a Serials Vendor: The University of Tennessee Experience
August 2, 2011 Rogue Downloader and Changing Ebook Landscape
July 26, 2011 Too Many Books
July 19, 2011 Libraries Abandon “Big Deal” Subscription Packages to Multiple Journals
July 12, 2011 How the “Harbrace Handbook of English’ Changed the Way Americans Learn About Writing
July 5, 2011 Academic Publisher Steps Up Efforts to Stop Piracy of Its Online Products
June 28, 2011 Prospects for Systemic Change across Academic Libraries
June 21, 2011 Internet Archive Starts Backing Up Digital Books on Paper
June 14, 2011 Libraries’ Digital Direction
May 31, 2011 What’s at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case
May 24, 2011 A Hole Lot of Books
May 17, 2011 The Erosion of Fair Use Protections for Digital Scholarship
May 10, 2011 Robert Darnton’s Errors
May 3, 2011 Enforcing Copyrights Online, For A Profit
April 27, 2011 No Room for Books
April 19, 2011 5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’
April 12, 2011 2010 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Journals
April 5, 2011 Is the World Wide Web Dying? And Where Are the Standards for Apps?
March 29, 2011 Steal This E-Book
March 22, 2011 Teaching to the Text Message
March 15, 2011 The Future of the Textbook
March 8, 2011 A Use Statistic for Collection Management: The 80/20 Rule Revisited
February 29, 2011 Feb. 11 2011 issue of Science
February 22, 2011 “Calling International Rescue: Knowledge Lost in Literature and Data Landslide!”
February 15, 2011 “Challenges and Possibilities for Collection Management in a Digital Age,”

Nomination guidelines for the Article of the Week are identical to the Book of the Week, only for journal articles!

1) The article should be relevant to us in acquisitions of collection development or scholarly communication.

2) More than likely the article will be non-fiction but we are not against fiction if if’s relevant.

3) The article doesn’t have to be recently published, just important to us in acquisitions, collection development, or scholarly communication!

Send us your nominations anytime with a brief (100 word!) explanation.

Wednesday: “I Wonder” Wednesdays

Each Wednesday we will feature a short poll or question. Inquiring minds want to know!

Wednesday
“I Wonder”
February 15, 2012 Libraries replacing damaged print titles with ebooks
February 8, 2012 Checking in print periodicals
February 1, 2012 Alumni access to licensed e-resources
January 25, 2012 Are Academic Libraries Collecting E-textbooks?
January 18, 2012 Online Access to Journal Supplements and Special Issues
January 11, 2012 Space Needs, Deselection and the Drawing Down of Print Collections
January 4, 2012 Open Access Publication
December 28, 2011 Limiting E-Book Circulation
October 19, 2011 Customizing E-Textbooks
October 12, 2011 Graphic Novels
October 5, 2011 Social Networking
September 28, 2011 Textbook Policy
September 21, 2011 Should Students be Required to Use eTextbooks?
September 14, 2011 eBook Indexes
September 7, 2011 Are Contests a Productive Way to Improve a Product?
August 31, 2011 Publishing Orphan Books Online
August 24, 2011 ILL and eBooks
August 17, 2011 ILL and Electronic Articles
August 10, 2011 Patron Driven Acquisitions
August 3, 2011 Refusing Large Book Donations?
July 27, 2011 Ebook Reading Habits
July 20, 2011 Big Deal Cancellations?
July 13, 2011 ISI’s Impact Factor
July 6, 2011 Kindle Lending
June 29, 2011 Mobile Access
June 22, 2011 Let’s Make a Deal!
June 15, 2011 Five Fun Facts You May Not Know About Libraries
June 8, 2011 E-Book Circulation Statistics
June 1, 2011 Institutional Repositories
May 18, 2011 Is Selection Dead?
May 12, 2011 Have You Cancelled Your Big Deal?
April 27, 2011 Cloud Services in Libraries
April 20, 2011 Library Lending for Kindles?
April 6, 2011 How Do You Access Content?
March 30, 2011 Google Book Settlement
March 23, 2011 Court Rejects Google Book Settlement
March 9, 2011 License Agreements Poll
March 2, 2011 Digital Public Library of America
February 23, 2011 Paperless Conferences?
February 16, 2011 eBook Poll
February 9, 2011 Do you own an eBook Reader?
January 26, 2011 What are you reading?

Thursday: Star of the Week

Every Thursday we will highlight a librarian or publisher profile. To nominate someone to be our Star of the Week, please email Leah (leah@katina.info) or Katina (kstrauch@comcast.net).

Thursday
Star of the Week
February 2, 2012 Patricia A. Hammond, Health Sciences Librarian, Sentara Potomac Hospital Immerman Memorial Library, Woodbridge, VA
January 26, 2012 M. Nathalie Wheaton, Librarian/Assistant Archivist, Rush University Medical Center Archives
January 19, 2012 Roula Awad, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Notre Dame, louaize – Lebanon
January 12, 2012 Leslie Straus, President, SkyRiver Technology Solutions
January 5, 2012 Sally A. Gore, Head, Research and Scholarly Communication Services, University of Massachusetts Medical School
December 29, 2011 Alison Mudditt, University of California Press
October 27, 2011 Amy Hoseth, Colorado State University
October 20, 2011 Mikiko Tanifugi, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
October 13, 2011 Erin Crane, Liberty University
October 6, 2011 John Dove, Credo Reference
September 30, 2011 Kevin Sayar, ebrary
October 20, 2011 John Dove, Credo Reference
September 21, 2011 Wesley W. Wilson, DePauw University
September 15, 2011 Brad Eden, Valparaiso University
September 8, 2011 Keri Price, Library of Congress
September 1, 2011 Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University
August 25, 2011 David L. Gregory, Morehead State University
August 18, 2011 Jonathan Harwell, Georgia Southern University
August 11, 2011 Corey D. Williams, American Library Association
August 4, 2011 Shelly Stuard, Alibris
July 21, 2011 Christine Ross, University of Florida
July 14, 2011 Connie Stovall, Virginia Tech
July 7, 2011 Susanna Smith, Gadsden State Community College
June 30, 2011 Cindy Campbell, Edison State University
June 23, 2011 Jennifer Castaldo, Johns Hopkins University
June 2, 2011 Jill Emery, Portland State University
May 26, 2011 Connie Foster, Western Kentucky University
May 19, 2011 Adam Chesler, Business Expert Press
May 12, 2011 Marla Chesler, U.S. Department of State
May 5, 2011 Michael Keller, Stanford University
April 21, 2011 Cynthia L. Peterson, East Texas Baptist University
April 14, 2011 Bill Kane, Wake Forest University
April 7, 2011 Xan Arch, Reed College
March 31, 2011 Sanford Thatcher, Penn State University Press
March 24, 2011 Mark Kendall, YBP
March 18, 2011 Sue Polanka, Wright State University
March 11, 2011 Patrick Carr, East Carolina University
March 3, 2011 Glenda Alvin, Tennessee State University
February 24, 2011 Matthew Hancox, Gale Digital Collections
February 17, 2011 Joyce Dixon-Fyle, DePauw University

Friday: “Hot Topic” of the Week

Fridays will feature coverage of a current hot topic, something that is stirring up conversations in the library/publishing world. Let us know if you have a suggestion for a topic!

Friday
Hot Topic of the Week
February 17, 2012 More on Open Access and E-books
February 10, 2012 More on the Elsevier Boycott (and Author Rights)
February 3, 2012 Open Access and Boycotting Journals
January 27, 2012 Restrictions on library e-lending
January 6, 2012 Concerns Raised by E-Book Editing
December 29, 2011 A Growing Design Aesthetic for Print Books
December 16, 2011 Amazon and Academic Libraries
December 9, 2011 Google Scholar Citations and eBook Price Fixing Allegations
October 21, 2011 Altmetrics, My Mother Was Nuts… & More on the Berlin Declaration
October 14, 2011 Building Digital Knowledge
October 7, 2011 Jimi Hendrix, Snow White, & Streaming Video: Or Copyright, Copyright, & More Copyright!
September 30, 2011 Open Access at Princeton, ALA & AAP on E-Books, & A College Re-Opens
September 23, 2011 Orphans or Not? Authors as Marketers… and “The New Normal?”
September 16, 2011 Will Amazon’s ‘Digital Library’ Kill the Physical One>
September 9, 2011 The Economics of Scholarly Communication
September 2, 2011 Google Reaches Settlement for Illegal Ads
August 26, 2011 First Sale, Statistics, and Where’s the Bathroom?
August 12, 2011 Publisher-Library Partnerships and Enhanced E-books
August 5, 2011 Will Open Access Solve Peer Review Concerns?
July 29, 2011 Treat a Book Like a Start Up? Only By Confusing Process With Form
July 19, 2011 Blackboard Sale to Private Equity Firm
June 17, 2011 A Crowd in the Cloud
June 4, 2011 June Weddings, June Divorces
May 27, 2011 G-8 Leaders Call for Tighter Internet Regulations
May 27, 2011 Georgia State University Copyright Suit in Full Swing
May 13, 2011 Google ChromeBook
April 29, 2011 No Room for Books
April 22, 2011 Kindle Lending Library
April 8, 2011 Digital Public Library
March 25, 2011 Thank You, Judge Chinand Tell Us More Cornell
March 11, 2011 iPad2 Announced by Steve Jobs
March 4, 2011 Border Bankrupt, Some Borders Closing
February 25, 2011 IBM and Watson
February 18, 2011 There Isn’t an App for eBookstore Cooperation
 

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