AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.10 # 2 April 1998 © Katina Strauch

SLA, MLA Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	From Field of Dreams to the Godfather: Collection Development Today by Curt Holleman — In this electronic world, what defines a good collection?	1
	What Library Directors Want Collection Development Librarians to Know by Maureen Pastine —	20
	The Changing Economic Model of Scholarly Publishing: Uncertainty, Complexity and Multi-media Serials by John Cox — Scholarly publishing is undergoing a transformation that affects every participant in the information chain. Serials used to be a relatively uncomplicated activity, driven by the need of scholars and researchers to publish.	24
	The Art of Collection Development: Reference Style by John P. Schmitt — Okay. Something we've always wanted to know — How do reference librarians select reference books?	28
	Op — Ed — Opinions and Editorials — Publishers Will Adjust to the "Crisis in Scholarly Publishing," But Will Scholars? Here's what Patricia Kolb thinks.	32
	Back Talk This time Tony Ferguson is talking about Customer Satisfaction.	94
	Bret Lott Author and Professor — College of Charleston	34
	Sam Gowan Collection Management Librarian and Co-producer of Ulee's Gold	36
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson just keeps on reviewing those reference books.	40
	Book Reviews Mary Cross reviews Bret Lott's The Hunt Club	42
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking Lloyd Rich lets us in on the Protection of Graphic characters	44
	Copyright Q & A Hooray! You know all those copyright questions you have? Lolly Gasaway is giving us her opinion on some of them.	47
	Cases of Note - Copyright Infringement Anne Jennings explains Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'Anza Research International, Inc.	48
	Who Owns What Now? — Law Publisher Genealogy by Mary Brandt Jensen — The Elsevier/Kluwer merger snafu notwithstanding, Mary Brandt Jensen has been hard at work studying legal publishers in this first of a series of mergers and acquisitions columns.	52
	Book Pricing Update Tracy Thornton gives us a look at Publishing Trends in Religion	56
	Chemistry Bestsellers 1996/1997 This month Françoise Crowell reports some new bestsellers.	57
	Academic Book Trends Celia Wagner studies Cloth and Paper Pricing - How many titles, How many dollars, How many libraries?	58
	From the Other Side of the Street — The $15 Monograph Thomas Bacher wants to bring back the monograph.	60
	On the Road by Don Jaeger — A glimpse at "Life in the Trenches" — "On the road again/ Just can't wait to get on the road again..."	61
	Publisher Profile University of Akron Press	62
	Publisher Bestsellers University of Minnesota Press	63
	Oregon Trails — Outsourcing Library Services by Tom Leonhardt — Principles, Practices, Perils, and Payoffs	64
	Biz of Acq Rick Anderson tells us How to Make Your Book Vendor Love You.	68
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings — Faxon Institute, Publishers' Sites on the Web, EDUCOM.	72
	Library Profile Barbara Dean returns as the editor of Library Profile (hurrah!) and tells us about Arlington County (VA) Department of Libraries	74
	Inside Pandora's Box — Essential Elements of Effective Dispute Resolution in the Workplace by Lawrence D. MacLachlan —	76
	Bet You Missed It What do ABA and Distance Learning have in common? Read all about some of the articles that have been published out there.	79
	Group Therapy How Do You Handle Your Binding Budget	80
	Issues in Vendor-Library Relations The inimitable Barry Fast tackles Booksellers and Consortia Part II	82
	International Dateline by Jeffrey M. Wilhite — International Library Organizations — To Join Or Not To Join	83
	Working Internationally by Ron Chepesiuk — Interview with Jane Gilligan — USIA Library, Mexico	86
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Doc Aquis Winn Theirl and Elsie Pritchard have received a number of new product developments, enhancements, and cooperative agreement announcements.	88
	Acquiring Minds Want to Know Joyce Ogburn tells us all about the recent CAUSE in December, 1997.	89
	Chaos Is the Digital Object Identifier, the DOI, the Twenty-First Century ISBN?	90
	Notes from a Consortium Watcher Ann Okerson lets us in on a presentation from the American Chemical Society (ACS) journals (February 23, 1998) to the Consortium On Consortia	92
	Call for Contributors Against the Grain Millennium Issue	4
	Call for Papers 1998 Charleston Conference — November 5-7, 1998	10
	Adventures in Librarianship This time, the indominable Ned Craft is Well Preserved.	92