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Paws Encouraged Profiles-The Rumors Blog
As we have settled in to working from home, those of us with pets have gotten to know them a lot better. Our new Paws Encouraged Profiles are a chance to share with you a little bit more about our new office-mates. If you are interested in sharing your pet, Paws...
Speakers Discuss Covid-19 Issues for Law Libraries-Guest Post-The Rumors Blog
By Bill Hannay, Partner, Schiff Hardin, LLP On June 11, 2020, the Practicing Law Institute hosted a webinar entitled “Covid-19 and Issues for Legal Librarians.” While the focus was on law libraries, many of the points discussed are of relevance to academic and...
What Will Happen to Print?-The Rumors Blog- Guest Post
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books Plans were being laid for the Main Branch of the New York Public Library long before the Fifth Avenue home of the iconic Literary Lions opened in 1911. “When the reservoir is removed from...
Paws Encouraged Profiles-The Rumors Blog
Tucker Hinds Basic Information: Male Australian Shepherd mix, 3 yrs old Pet’s Name (and Owner’s Name) Tucker (Leah Hinds) Pet’s Job Title - Farm Director and Chief Executive Chicken Herder(and Owner’s Job Title) (Executive Director) Owner’s Institution - Charleston...
ATG Book of the Week: So You Want To Publish A Book?
Title: So You Want To Publish A Book?Author: Anne TrubekPaperback: ISBN: 978-1948742665, $16.95Imprint: Cleveland: Belt Publishing, July 28, 2020 "Anne Trubek wrote several books, was a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and was a tenured English professor...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Has your library reduced the travel budget for fall 2020?
Guest Post-Publishing in the Time of Plague
By: Vince Burns, Vice President, Editorial ABC-CLIOThe older this historian gets, the more I realize that I much prefer to read about significant historical events than survive them. After the elation at the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the...
ATG Article of the Week: What Happens to Powell’s Books When You Can’t Browse the Aisles?
In the most recent Corner Office column in the NY Times, David Gelles interviews Emily Powell, the chief executive of Powell's Books, the famous Portland independent bookstore. They discuss how Ms. Powell "is having to rethink the books business" in light of the...
Guest Post- STM US Annual Conference Goes Virtual, April 28-30, 2020- The Rumors Blog
By: Anthony Watkinson, Director, Charleston Conference, and Principal Consultant, CIBER Research and Honorary Lecturer, University College, London The STM US Annual Conference was a three-day event, and it would seem that many of the registrants signed up for...
ATG Book of the Week: Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals) 3rd Edition
Title: Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals) 3rd EditionAuthor: Gregory S. HunterPaperback: 978-0838912775, $85Imprint: Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020 Since its original publication Hunter's manual has been "not...
I “Wonder” Wednesday: Does the 21st century librarian need to be conversant with the tools of data management to be effective?
Researcher to Reader Conference, London, February 24-25, 2020 Report
By: Anthony Watkinson, Director, Charleston Conference, and Principal Consultant, CIBER Research R2R is a relatively new meeting which, being in Europe in February, fits in well for conference junkies between APE in Berlin and the group of meetings in March and April...
ATG’s Caught My Eye 5/25/20
13 Pioneering Black American Librarians You Oughta Know is by Katisha Smith and can be found on the Book Riot website. Ms. Smith admits hers "is not an exhaustive list and represents only a fraction of the black librarians who have made significant contributions to...
Guest Post-Teaching Math: From Homework to Home Work- An Interview with John T. Nardini, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, SAMSI & N.C. State University
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books John Nardini John Nardini was one of the many thousands of university professors across the world forced by COVID-19 to move their teaching so quickly from an actual classroom to an online...
ATG Article of the Week: Libraries Around the World Prepare for a New Normal
"Libraries Around the World Prepare for a New Normal" appears on the bibliotheca website and while it focuses on public libraries and their responses to the "new normal", it has some lessons for academic libraries as well. "Across the world, many countries have begun...
