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Trendspotting at SSP 2022
By Donald T. Hawkins (Freelance Conference Blogger and Editor) Editor's Note: This article will also be published in an upcoming issue of Against the Grain as part of the "Don's Conference Notes" column. The Trendspotting Initiative, by Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, started up about 5 years ago and has been a feature at meetings of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the Charleston Conference since then. According to the...
Rhyme, Russian, Revolution, and Reason
by Donna Jacobs, Retired, Medical University of South Carolina Editor's Note: This post is taken from Donna's "Booklover" column in the April 2022 issue of Against the Grain, v 34 #2, pg. 34. This Booklover has been in word heaven lately; so many provocative...
Mixing with Royalty: Conferences and Creative Thinking
By Derek Law, Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde One of the very few benefits of Covid-19 is that I have been using my local public library much more and using serendipity wandering round the shelves to find new things to read. On a recent visit I came...
Carpe Diem – Seizing Pandemic Opportunities?
Editor's Note: Today's post comes from our Against the Grain archives, and was originally published in the June 2020 issue, Volume 32 #3. Ann gives some lessons learned below; what other lessons can we share two years later on? by Ann Okerson (Senior Advisor, Center...
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Linked Data for Libraries – Casalini Libri and the Evolution of Cataloguing – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 7/1/22
Linked Data for Libraries - Casalini Libri and the Evolution of Cataloguing This video from Casalini Libri highlights their dedication to cataloguing over the decades and their involvement in creating tools for the use of linked data in libraries.It is available on...
ATG Book of the Week: Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
TITLE: Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in PublishingAUTHOR: John B. ThompsonHARDCOVER: ISBN: 978-1-509-54678-7, $35; PAPERBACK: ISBN: 978-1-509-55493-5, $26.95; eBook: ISBN: 978-1-509-54679-4, $28Imprint: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021 "This book...
Opening the Future program welcomes JSTOR as a hosting partner – Plus More ATG News & Announcements for 6/30/22
Opening the Future program welcomes JSTOR as a hosting partner According to the JSTOR website "JSTOR has joined the Opening the Future program as a hosting partner for Open Access ebooks published by Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press....
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ATG Job Bank: Head of Partnership Development (Remote, North America) – Dryad
Head of Partnership Development (Remote, North America) - Dryad Dryad is recruiting a Head of Partnership Development to help grow the community of academic and research institutions, research funders, journals and publishers that invest in us to pursue the open...
ATG Job Bank: Program Manager, Strategic Research & Market Analysis at ITHAKA
Program Manager, Strategic Research & Market Analysis at ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome...
ATG Job Bank for 6/3/22
NORTH Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Specialist, Boston College Law Library, Boston, MA Public Services Manager for Distinctive Collections - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries Electronic Resources Systems Librarian, University at...