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ATG Article of the Week: Wikipedia’s Volunteer Army
In this post Sarah Leeson of WGBH News poses the question, What do you get when you assemble an army of anonymous internet users to agree on facts and hope they do their best? Her answer: a description of how Wikipedia works. Read on… “Giving internet...ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Has ebook usage among your patrons met your expectations?
Take Our...ATG Book of the Week: Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance
Title: Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and BalanceAuthor: Michael StephensPaperback: 978-0838919064, $49.99Imprint: Chicago: ALA, 2019 “Of his earlier book, Against the Grain raved, “Reading this book brings a sense of...ATG Article of the Week: Elsevier Netherlands agreement ‘major breakthrough for open science’
According to this post in Research Information “a group of research institutions in the Netherlands has reached an agreement with Elsevier that is being hailed as a ‘major breakthrough for open science’. The Association of Universities in the...ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Has you library’s budget been adjusted to invest in open content?
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Title: Foundations of Information EthicsEditors: John T. F. Burgess & Emily J. M. KnoxSoftcover: 978-0-8389-1722-0, $54.99Imprint: Chicago: ALA, 2019 “As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to...ATG Article of the Week: 2019 Was Big for Academic Publishing. Here’s Our Year in Review (The Scientist)
In this post freelance journalist Diane Kwon takes note of a number of developments including how “the global push to make the scholarly literature open access continued in 2019. Some publishers and libraries forged new licensing deals, while in other cases...ATG Article of the Week: The ebook revolution that did not come to pass
“The ebook revolution that did not come to pass” is posted on the GoodeReader website and authored by Michael Kozlowski, the Editor-in-Chief of GoodeReader “… The 2010s will go down in the annals of history as the decade when everyone thought...ATG Article of the Week: 15 Stunning University Libraries Around the World
Photo: Norm Barker “From an early-14th-century reading room in the Sorbonne to an ultra-modern library at the University of Chicago, AD surveys the most stunning university libraries around the world ” According to Architectural Digest’s Nick Mafi...Subscribe to our Podcast:
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