AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.10 # 3 June 1998 © Katina Strauch

ALA Annual Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Providing Access to Electronic Journals: The Ohio University Experience by Laura Hudson and Laura Windsor — The 20th century, has seen an exponential increase in electronic journals creating exciting challenges for library staff. The focus of this paper is on the scholarly electronic journal.	1
	Liz Chapman - Death of a Salesman: The Demise of Periodical Agents? Periodical agents have been part of the library and publishing scene for over 200 years, but what are the chances of their survival in the electronic marketplace?	22
	Approaching Clairvoyance: Notes toward Selection for Off-Site Shelving by Margaret K. Powell (Yale University Library) — While library additions, and indeed entire new libraries, are still being constructed, hard economic truths and dreams of the digital collection have reduced our ability and our desire to construct traditional libraries at the same rate as the growth and addition of material demand.	23
	Op— Ed — Opinions and Editorials — In Praise of Engineers by Bob Schatz — Quietly standing behind architects are a cadre of engineers who are heroes in their own right, but who get much less recognition.	29
	Here's Looking At: Yankee Rights Management Copyright management, for both copyright owners and users, has been identified as one of the most difficult problems facing us in the online world. So, with an eye towards solving problems and facilitating online communication, Glen Secor has decided to tackle the copyright issue head-on.	36
	Back Talk With this issue, we depart from our usual Tony Ferguson soundoff to share some letters with you.	94
	David Cheatham Information Quest	14
	Jim Rose President and CEO, Blackwell's Information Service	30
	Morris Shattuck Marketing Manager — Emery-Pratt Book Distributors	34
	Mario Casalini Founder, Casalini Libri	85
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Ron Chepesiuk Professor and Head, Special Collections Winthrop College Library	56
	Sharon McKay Electronic Sales Manager — Blackwell's Information Services	74
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson takes vacation, but doesn't stop his vigil of Reference books.	38
	Book Reviews Reviews of — Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs.	42
	TestDriving CD-ROMS Reviews of CD-ROM products — Darwin (2d ed.) and Encyclopaedia of Mathematics	44
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking The Public Domain: Caution!	46
	Cases of Note Trademark and Copyright Infringement.	48
	Book Pricing Update by Abby Brothers — One Publisher's Treatment of Science Textbooks Over a Ten-Year Period	52
	Bestsellers in Math 1997 by Françoise Crowell —	54
	Publisher Profile Institute of Physics Publishing	56
	Publisher Bestsellers University Press of Florida	58
	From the Other Side of the Street by Thomas Bacher — The Press Is Dead. The Press Is Dead. Long Live the Press — A Parody on Recent Events	60
	Not Fit For Print – I Am Not A Crook by Tony Leisner —	64
	Oregon Trails Tom Leonhardt is hot on the trail of Books and New Rivers Press.	66
	Papa Lyman Remembers Lyman Newlin goes through ATG 1997 and puts his own special spin on the year ...	68
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings — Digital Delivery of Scientific Information to Libraries: Perspectives on Today And Tomorrow and VIII Transborder Library Forum are reported in this issue.	70
	Biz of Acq This month Narda Tafuri describes some Creative Outsourcing.	71
	Inside Pandora's Box —The Paper Library: Beyond the Automated Card Catalog Hunter Kevil is concerned that without reform and adaptation to contemporary technology our paper libraries as we know them will become increasingly marginalized and eventually little more than book museums.	76
	Bet You Missed It	78
	Group Therapy Have you ever had to Prepay a RUSH Order?	80
	On The Street This time we have TWO surveys — one about Electronic Journals and the other about Electronic Content Management Systems. Do you know what that is?	82
	Interview with Mario Casalini Founder, Casalini Libri	85
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Nouvelle Cuisine — Working On the Library's Homepage: Troubles and Tribulations by Dan Shouse —	63
	Wandering the Web Betsy Williams has been surfing the Net for Business, Economics, and Law resources.	87
	Acquiring Minds Want to Know Information Policies and Intellectual Property is Joyce Ogburn's topic this month.	88
	Chaos — Trading on the Internet — BookEasy TM What's so hard about doing business on the Internet? Martyn Daniels has a few specific suggestions.	89
	Web Hosting - Is it Really as Easy as $14.95? by Ben Bauer — Web site outsourcing is extremely efficient but is it as easy as selecting the lowest price?	90
	Adventures in Librarianship As ALA Annual comes up, Ned Craft has some Convential Wisdom to impart.	90
	On the Road James Mouw has one more NASIG story!	92