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Editor-in-Chief, The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A Mountain, a Cathedral, a Battleship, or … an Iceberg? by Svetla Baykoucheva (Editor, Chemical Information Bulletin, Head, White Memorial Chemistry Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; Phone: 301-405-9080) sbaykouc@umd.edu by Narda Tafuri (Acquisitions & Continuing Resources Librarian, The University of Scranton, Weinberg Memorial Library, Scranton, PA 18510; Phone: 570-941-7811; Fax: 570-941-7809) tafurin1@scranton.edu (Download pdf) University presses and libraries have begun to release rare and not so rare public domain books from their vaults and shelves and make them available through print-on-demand (POD) for well below the [...] by Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick (Assistant Professor, Acquisitions & Collection Development Librarian, Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center (CUNY) New York City, NY 10016; Phone: 212-817-7056) jfitzpatrick@gc.cuny.edu (Download pdf) I work at the Mina Rees Library of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Graduate Center, in the heart of Manhattan. The Graduate Center is the PhD [...] (Senior Vice President, Sales, YBP Library Services) <mkendall@ybp.com> ATG: Come again? YBP (Baker & Taylor) has just bought Blackwell Book Services in the US (Blackwell NA)? This is startling news! What will happen to the Blackwell offices in the US? MK: Our top priority will be to work very closely [...] We’re in the process of moving over archival Table of Contents and full text articles. In the meantime, archival content can be found online here: Full Text Articles: http://www.against-the-grain.com/d/fulltextarticles Table of Contents: http://www.against-the-grain.com/d/TOC The Implications of “Good Enough” and the Future of Libraries by Tony Horava (Collection and Information Resources Coordinator, University of Ottawa, 65 University, Ottawa, ON K1N 6H5; Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext3645 <thorava@uottawa.ca> “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Voltaire’s words from The Philosophical Dictionary have a particular resonance for libraries today. Reports of Meetings – 28th Annual Charleston Conference (pdf) Charleston Conference Reports compiled by: Ramune K. Kubilius (Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian, Northwestern [...] Is “Functional” Use “Transformative” and Hence “Fair”? A Copyright Conundrum (pdf) Column Editor: Sanford G. Thatcher (Director, Penn State Press, USB 1, Suite C, 820 N. University Drive, University Park, PA 16802-1003; Phone: 814-865-1327; Fax: 814-863-1408) <sgt3@psu.edu> www.psupress.org Moving Libraries to a Web Services Environment – Issues To Consider In April, OCLC released the first iteration of a Web-based service for library management systems. This is the first salvo in what will likely become [...] We’re All Me-ists Now In a widely and rightly reviled movie, Wall Street, Michael Douglas plays a sinister character by the name of Gordon Gekko. The movie is hardly subtle (get it? Gecko, evil, lizard-like? This was before the Geico commercials made them lovable) [...] Copyright Column QUESTION: An academic library has a scanner that is available to students. Not surprisingly, students often want to use it to digitize parts of library books which [...] When a Bare Possibility of Access Is Not Enough Leonard Jones & James White v. Mary J. Blige; Universal-MCA Music Publishing et al, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 4451. In the year 2000, Rap artist-wannabe Tim Acker a/k/a Benevolence wrote the lyrics to [...] Is the Library Collection Too Risky? Like many (maybe even most) of my colleagues, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to allocate a suddenly diminished materials budget. Only a year ago our biggest worry was how to [...] Silence is Golden if You are in the Market for a Dead Library (pdf) Column Editor: Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson (Library Director, University of Hong Kong; Phone: 852 2859 2200; Fax: 852 2858 9420) <ferguson@hkucc.hku.hk> Working to Solve the Problems of Name Authority — The International Standard Name Identifier and Other Projects (pdf) by Todd Carpenter (Managing Director, NISO, One North Charles Street, Suite 1905,Baltimore, MD 21201; Phone: 301-654-2512; Fax: 410-685-5278) <tcarpenter@niso.org> www.niso.org |
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