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ATG Job Bank: Library Specialist: Data Visualization & Analytics – Texas State University
LIBRARY SPECIALIST: DATA VISUALIZATION & ANALYTICS The Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University is seeking a Library Specialist: Data Visualization & Analytics. Under the direction of the Head of Acquisitions, this position provides...
ATG Job Bank: Assistant/Associate Professor & Health Sciences Collections Librarian – University of Illinois at Chicago (Search Extended)
SEARCH EXTENDED The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library of the Health Sciences (LHS) seeks a tenure system faculty librarian to build health sciences collections in all formats. This highly collaborative position coordinates and consults with liaison...
ATG Job Bank 6/17/19 – Librarians
University Librarian - University of Hawaii "University Librarian The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) seeks a ... leader to serve as University Librarian. Building upon the many strengths of the University, as well as the unique attributes of Hawai‘i and its...
ATG Quirkies: Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?
This post on the Atlas Obscura website highlights “perhaps one of the silliest and most fascinating trends in medieval fashion... - the carrot-shaped shoes that tapered to impish tips" that dominated men's footwear fashion. It's based on the research of...
ATG Job Bank: Collection Development Librarian – Texas State University
Librarian: Collection Development The University Libraries at Texas State University are seeking qualified applicants for a Collection Development Librarian. Reporting to the Head of Acquisitions, this position provides leadership in implementing best...
Part 3, JOURNALISM FACES NEW CHALLENGES: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
By Nancy K. Herther (Click here to read Part 1 & click here to read Part 2) Rich Gordon is a professor and director of digital innovation at Northwestern University’s Medill school, where he launched the graduate program in new media journalism and is the...
ATG Job Bank 6/10/19 – Publishing
Director, Production and Electronic Publishing - American College of Physicians – Philadelphia, PA, "The American College of Physicians (ACP), ... is seeking a Director of Production and Electronic Publishing to lead the production and electronic strategy...
Part 2, Journalism Faces New Challenges: Instead of A ‘White Knight’ We Got Hedge Funds
by Nancy K. Herther (Click here to read Part 1.) In her 2016 book The Rise of a New Media Baron and the Emerging Threat of News Deserts, Muse Abernathy makes the issue – and the cause -- quite clear: “Over the past decade, a new media baron has emerged in the United...
ATG Hot Topic: Perspectives on Patron Privacy
by Courtney McAllister The day after commencement, my library hosted a SNELLA (Southern New England Law Librarians’ Association) spring meeting. Recent graduates and their families had dispersed, leaving the halls and classrooms eerily quiet. It was a perfect...
ATG Newsflash: HARRASSOWITZ Accepting Applications for the 2019 Charleston Conference Scholarship
For Immediate Release HARRASSOWITZ Accepting Applications for the 2019 Charleston Conference Scholarship May 29, 2019, Wiesbaden, Germany HARRASSOWITZ, international booksellers and subscription agents, is pleased to offer once again a...
ATG Job Bank 5/29/19 – Librarians
Head of Collections and Open Strategies - Iowa State University The Iowa State University Library is seeking applications for the Head of Collections and Open Strategies. The successful candidate (Librarian II or III) will lead a newly created department that...
Part 1, Journalism Faces New Challenges: The 21st Century Hasn’t Been Kind to Our Fourth Estate
by Nancy K. Herther (Click here to read Part 2) A new article by Frank Esser and Christoph Neuberger focuses on innovations in journalism. The “new forms of presentation (multimedia story-telling, immersive journalism), new ways of involving the audience...
ATG Job Bank: Campus Library Manager – Midwestern University
Campus Library Manager Midwestern University Midwestern University is a private, not-for-profit organization that provides graduate and post-graduate education in the health sciences. The University has two campuses, one in Downers Grove, Illinois and...
ATG Hot Topic: Project Outcome and Library Assessment
By Courtney McAllister Assessment is not a new aspect of librarianship. Libraries and information centers of all types have been evaluating patron satisfaction, collections usage, circulation statistics, door counter info, and other data points for many years....
ATG Quirkies: How a misspelled last name kept an important illustrated manuscript hidden for 190 years
'Lost' book of exquisite scientific drawings rediscovered after 190 years Fans of both art and botany will be excited to learn that the brilliantly illustrated plants and insightful observations made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba in the 1800s have been rescued. The...