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ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Have library discovery systems been optimized for 21st century research?
ATG Book of the Week: Digital Curation Fundamentals
Title: Digital Curation Fundamentals Author: Jody L. DeRidder Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1538111215, $85; Paperback: 978-1538106785, $40 Imprint: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 "Websites and digital news stories disappear daily; researchers can’t access...
ATG Quirkies: Just Like the Monolith In 2001
Blasting off from Cape Canaveral, a lunar lander, called Beresheet is ferrying some very precious cargo to the moon. Annie Palmer of the Daily Mail reports that this compact spacecraft is housing, what according to Ms. Palmer, is "a lunar library" that "backs...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Is your library helping find and evaluate OER resources for faculty to use in their classes?
ATG Article of the Week: Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance is recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen website and is written by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and affiliate...
ATG Book of the Week: Bookshops: A Reader’s History
Title: Bookshops: A Reader's History (Biblioasis International Translation Series) Author: Jorge Carrion; Translator: Peter Bush Hardback: 978-1771961745, $24.95; Paperback: 978-1771962650, $15.95 Imprint: Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2018 "Bookshops is the best kind of...
Free Webcast – Behind the Curtain: Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions, and Cambridge Elements
Tuesday, February 26, at 2:00 pm Eastern Presented by Debbie Gershenowitz, Senior Editor, American & Latin American History & Politics, and Sara Doskow, Editor, Political Science and Sociology, Cambridge University Press. Register Now Debbie Gershenowitz and...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Does your library offer stress relief programs for students during exam time?
ATG Book of the Week: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Busy World
Title: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Busy World Author: Cal Newport Hardcover: 978-0525536512, $26 Imprint: New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2019 "... In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a...
ATG Article of the Week: Book printers are reporting a surprising end-of-year crunch
"Book printers are reporting a surprising end-of-year crunch" is a recent post from the Marketplace website that claims "some U.S. book printers are reporting a surprising holiday crunch" this past year. Author Leila Goldstein goes on to point out that...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Has compact shelving proved to be a barrier to student use of print collections at your library?
ATG Book of the Week: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Title: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World Author: Christopher de Hamel Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1594206115, $45 Imprint: New York: Penguin Press, 2017 Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of...
ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Is the APC a viable long term fee or charging model for open access?
ATG ” I Wonder” Wednesday: Do you think popular print magazines have a future?
ATG Article of the Week: What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ Anakana Schofield
In her article. What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ Anakana Schofield has a bone to pick with tidying guru, Marie Kondo. According to Ms Schofield, while Ms. Kondo "advises us to ditch reading we don’t find joyful," Ms. Schofield...