9-22-23 GOOD NEWS! Frankfurt – The Charleston Conference will finally have a session during the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair! We were delayed because of COVID and other interferences, but in 2023 we are having an in person meeting and attendance is free!!...
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9-15-23 Attention!! Let’s start writing about libraries everywhere – not just the US but Canada, the UK, France, Italy, China, Etc., Etc. Send suggestions – editors@charleston-hub.com A growing number of bookstore/bars offer literature and wines by the...
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9-8-23 GULF SHORES, AL - JULY 11: Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Friends: Live from the Gulf Coast, a concert presented by CMT at on the beach on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for CMT)...
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8-25-23 An Ithaka S+R research report August 15, 2023 Of Meetings and Members The Interconnected Future of Conferences and Scholarly Societies By Dylan Ruediger, Jessica Pokharel, Alex Humphreys, Laura Brown, Lindsey Potts DOI:...
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8-18-23 Jane Friedman Five books for sale on Amazon were removed after author Jane Friedman complained that the titles were falsely listed as being written by her. The books, which Friedman believes were written by AI, were also listed on the Amazon-owned reviews site...
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8-11-23 Have you ever thought of writing a novel? Well, a judge’s novel has caused some drama in a courtroom. U.S. bankruptcy judge, Stacey Jernigan writes legal thrillers with biotech companies, crooked financiers, and Mexican cartels. Her latest is Hedging...
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8-4-23 Just heard from the charmingly peripatetic Anthony Watkinson. He and his wife Sarah and his daughter Ruth and her husband and their two children and their dogs have just spent the day at the Northumberland County show. Thousands of others (many of them farmers)...
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7-28-23 Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Excited to report that the vivacious Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Professional Publishing (SSP)....
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7-14-23 Karen Christensen Isn’t Karen Christensen great! She does a fortnightly newsletter and the latest one caught my eye. It’s about T.S. Eliot’s typewriter and desk and introduces “analog thinking for the way we live now”. Eliot died in 1965 back before manual...
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By Katina Strauch and Leah Hinds 6-30-23 Got a great note from Tom Gilson! He likes “Tea Time with Katina and Leah”. He also reminded me that we interviewed SUCHO awhile back and might want to add a link to the interview in our next post. ATGthePodcast 163 – SUCHO:...
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