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ATG Book of the Week: A Starter’s Guide for Academic Library Leaders: Advice in Conversation
Title: A Starter’s Guide for Academic Library Leaders: Advice in ConversationAuthors: Amanda Clay Powers, Martin Garnar, & Dustin FifePaperback: 978-0838919231, $64.99Imprint: Chicago: ALA, 2019 “The path towards leadership starts with you. But you don...ATG Article of the Week: College Students Just Want Normal Libraries
According to Alia Wong writing in the Atlantic “schools have been on a mission to reinvent campus libraries—even though students just want the basics…” Ms. Wong goes on to point out that “Back in the 1940s, college libraries had something of an...ATG Book of the Week: Book Parts
Title: Book Parts Editors: Dennis Duncan and Adam Smyth; Hardcover: ISBN: 9780198812463, $40; Imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits...ATG Article of the Week: Queens Has a Striking New Library. Why Can’t the City Build More Gems Like This?
Queens Has a Striking New Library. Why Can’t the City Build More Gems Like This? According to Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, “the Hunters Point Community Library is one of the finest public buildings New York has produced this...ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Are your librarians using AI, VR, and other interactive media in their library instruction?
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Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures appears in Science and is reported by associate news editor Jeffrey Brainard. “When PLOS ONE debuted in 2006, its founders declared it would transform scientific publishing. It was the...ATG Book of the Week: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Title: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Author: Roger McNamee Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0525561354, $28 Imprint: London, Penguin, 2019 “If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook...ATG “I Wonder” Wednesday: Do you belong to a book club?
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Electronic Resources and Social Sciences Librarian – Saint Louis University Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library is hiring an Electronic Resources and Social Sciences Librarian. This is a full-time (12-month), non-tenure track faculty...Subscribe to our Podcast:
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