Against the Grain - The Podcast

Let's Get Technical with Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt On today's episode we cover a number of topics. First off is Katina Strauch with her weekly Rumors segment. Then we hear from Katina's husband Bruce Strauch as he tells us a fascinating "Case of Note" story involving reality TV, violent street gangs and the anti-SLAPP statute. We then hear three articles from ATG Column Editors Stacey Marien...

Interview with Gary Price This week Leah Hinds takes over the host duties as we feature a discussion between Gary Price of infoDOCKET and our own Tom Gilson and Katina Strauch. The talk centers around the latest in open data resources and the library's potential role in harvesting those resources and making them discoverable. We also have an update on privacy concerns from his 2015 Charleston Conf...

Jim O'Donnell - Libraries as Showcase, Showplace and Showroom On today's episode we talk with Jim O'Donnell about the ongoing renovations of the Hayden Library on the campus of Arizona State University, and their goal to make the library a showcase, showplace and showroom for ASU students. Jim also shares his thoughts on taking inspiration from the world of retail to shape the future of academic l...

Legal Talk from Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay All of us at Against The Grain - The Podcast have been busy lining up great new content and interviews for future episodes. Due to scheduling issues and Leah Hind's trip to France for a conference, we had a gap to fill in the podcast schedule. Fortunately two of our regular contributors to the Against The Grain journal, Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay we...

The Value of Publishing: In-Depth Panel Discussion On today's episode, we take an in-depth examination of the costs and complexities of scholarly publishing. Nancy Maron  (ATGthePodcast #14) takes over the host duties in a panel discussion with three of the authors that contributed to her recent article in the Against The Grain journal titled The Value of Publishing:What's Worth Paying For . Nancy...

v28 #3 ATG Special Report — Industry Consolidation in the Information Services and Library Environment: Perspectives from Thought Leaders by David Parker On today's episode, we will hear from three of the people most responsible for all the great content you have come to expect from the Against The Grain journal. They are Katina Strauch , Tom Gilson and Leah Hinds . Once again, in what will become...

Once again, the Long Arm of the Law session lights the Charleston Conference stage! In this year's session, returning favorite attorney Bill Hannay (Schiff Hardin LLP) informs the audience about the latest court cases and rulings that impact us in libraries and the information industry. For example, did you know that in September 2016 the New Delhi high court dismissed suits by three international...

Interview with Jim Bunnelle and Jonathan Harwell Jonathan H. Harwell  (Head of Collections and Systems, Olin Library, Rollins College) James Bunnelle  (Acquisitions & Collection Development Librarian, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College)  Here is the link to the article on the ATG website:  

Big Data 2.0: Critical Roles for Libraries and Librarians Big Data is a live issue in e-commerce and market intelligence, e-government and politics, national security, and smart healthcare; a key feature of digital scholarship and open science; and an emergent concern for education and the cultural heritage sectors. Big Data 2.0 raises the stakes: the convergence of e-science with business intelli...

Nancy Maron Interview On today's show, we will hear from Nancy Maron , President and Founder of BlueSky to BluePrint, a strategic consulting firm helping publishers, librarians, and leaders of digital initiatives to develop sustainable business models. Website Comments from today's co-host: You know, Bill Hannay is going to be a hard act to follow from the last episode, but I'm going to do my best...

Bill Hannay, Censorship and "Naked Lunch: The Musical" Did you know that some of your favorite books and literature have been considered obscene? They may have even been banned from libraries and forbidden distribution. On today's episode we hear from Bill Hannay about banned books, obscenity trials and the four-year trial that the author of the book "Naked Lunch" endured. All this, and a musical...

Views from the Penthouse Suite Interview with Anja Smit Anja Smit , Library Director, Ultrecht University, The Netherlands is interviewed by Erin Gallagher Director of Collection Services for the Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library at Reed College and Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, Central Michigan University in November 2016 in an "Against the Grain" Penthouse interview at the 20...

Views from the Penthouse Suite Interview with Michael Levine-Clark Against the Grain, the premier journal linking publishers, vendors, and librarians, is pleased to release a series of interviews titled "Views from the Penthouse Suite." These interviews are an annual occurrence at the Charleston Library Conference; one that we look forward to every year. Select speakers and attendees are invited t...

Views from the Penthouse Suite Interview with Jayne Marks Against the Grain, the premier journal linking publishers, vendors, and librarians, is pleased to release a series of interviews titled "Views from the Penthouse Suite." These interviews are an annual occurrence at the Charleston Library Conference; one that we look forward to every year. Select speakers and attendees are invited to the Mar...

ATG Views from the Penthouse Suite Interview with Judith Russell Against the Grain, the premier journal linking publishers, vendors, and librarians, is pleased to release a series of interviews titled "Views from the Penthouse Suite." These interviews are an annual occurrence at the Charleston Library Conference; one that we look forward to every year. Select speakers and attendees are invited to...

The Evolution of E-Books As we all know, the advent of the ebook have had a profound impact on libraries. What started as very tentative steps with NetLibrary at the turn of the millennium – this seems like a lifetime ago! - has rapidly evolved with the integration of digital content and services in libraries. The evolution from print to online has been a rocky and complicated journey, unlike the...

Building the Knowledge School The rise of the information school movement has been seen as both a positive and negative reality in the preparation of librarians. Have undergraduate programs taken away resources and attention from the masters in library science? Has the growth of faculty with little or no understanding of libraries diluted the field? Dr. David Lankes lays out his thoughts for movin...

Preservation of Digital Collections and Dark Archives Long-term preservation of digital collections is a clear charter for libraries, but the path forward is often murky and daunting. Solutions vary due to collection composition, collection file structure, the technical expertise of the teams involved, and budget. Further, there are issues of stewardship, ownership and release of data in a usable...

The Road Ahead? Patron-Driven Acquisition Might Become... Library patrons make use of many forms of content: journals, ebooks, videos, audio tracks, archival documents, musical scores, etc. Each of these content types is amenable to PDA and the technology certainly exists to deliver each of these content types in PDA. So what stands in the way? We consider the prospects for a future-state of PDA t...

Hyde Park Debate Resolved: APC-Funded Open Access is Antithetical to the Values of Librarianship In Favor: Alison Scott, UC Riverside Opposed: Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver The debate will be conducted in general accordance with Oxford Union rules. All in the audience will vote their opinion on the resolution before the debate begins using text message voting, and the vote totals will...

Reimagining Our World at Planetary Scale: The Big Data Future of Our Libraries What happens when massive computing power brings together an ever-growing cross-section of the world's information in realtime, from news media to social media, books to academic literature, the world's libraries to the web itself, machine translates all of that material as it arrives, and applies a vast array of algori...

Libraries as Convener, Enabler, Distributor, Advocate and Archive in the Future Knowledge Economy By 2026, there will be no information and services industry targeting products to the library marketplace. Content and applications will be directed to the consumer. Open resources for learning, research and recreation, and open source tools supporting innovation, and individual and organizational pro...

You Can't Preserve What You Don't Have - Or Can You? Libraries as Infrastructure for Perpetual Access to Intellectual Output Since their existence, libraries have been responsible for preserving society's records and intellectual output. This ancient and important role is under serious threat in the digital age. Even for scholarly journals, the issue of perpetual access has not been solved, other...