AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.10 # 4 September 1998 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor & Guest Editor	8
	Letters to the Editor	8
	Reference Materials To Web or Not To Web? Librarians and Publishers Speak Out. by Frances C. Wilkinson. How is the Web effecting reference publishing? What are the benefits and disadvantages of having products in paper and electronic format? To address these issues, an interview-style joint discussion among librarians and publishers of reference materials was held.	1
	Bookseller Sales of Special Reference Sets: What’s the Story? A lot of us in Acquisitions have been forced to go direct to publishers to get special pricing on big reference sets. Matt Nauman fills us in on some new developments between publishers and booksellers that may end this practice.	25
	Bestselling Bibliographies of 1997 Bob Nardini and Françoise Crowell have compiled this listing.	28
	Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials — Fiddling While Rome Burns The writing in library periodicals is increasingly being conducted in some sort of a vacuum. This is the subject of Richard Abel's Op Ed.	30
	Charleston ConferenceRegistration Form Registrations are coming in fast and furious for the 1998 Charleston Conference. Sign up today!	31
	Back Talk — Give Me A Break! Tony Ferguson talks back regarding the International Publishers Copyright Council (IPCC) position paper written by Carol Risher in 1996 on Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment.	94
	Irv Rockwood Editor and Publisher, Choice Magazine	35
	Eileen Sutter Marketing & Sales Director, Dictionary of Art, Grove's Dictionaries	38
	Tom Romig Publisher — U*X*L	40
	U*X*L — A Publisher Analysis and Review by Denis W. Keyes and mutindi ndunda —	44
	Encyclopedia of Philosophy Reviewed by Tom Gilson and James Williams —	47
	From the Reference Desk Even more Reference book reviews!	49
	Book Reviews Reviews of — Economics of Digital Information; Electronic Resources; College Choice & Admissions; College Financial Aid.	51
	TestDriving CD-ROMS Reviews of CD-ROM products — Chaucer: Life and Times and American Archives.	54
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking This month, Lloyd Rich is concerned about the Protection of Literary Titles.	56
	Cases of Note Defamation — Copyright Infringement — Thin Protection for Compilations — Elvis celebrity photos — Pamela Anderson Tape	58
	Copyright Questions & Answers Courtesy of Lolly Gasaway. —	60
	Book Pricing Update Trends in Pricing by Broad Subject Category — Abby Brothers and Dan Miller do the thorough, annual broad pricing trends in monographic publishing which we have come to expect.	62
	Academic Book Trends This month, Celia Wagner's concern is The Books Libraries Don't Buy	63
	From the Other Side of the Street This month Janet Flowers talks about University Press, Academic Library, Library Wholesaler: Views on the Current Environment.	64
	Oregon Trails Tom Leonhardt wants to know why a library can't be like a fitness center.	66
	Papa Lyman Remembers — The Battle of the Building How do you talk a politician into the fact that the Virtual Library needs more space?	68
	sotto voce — The Book is dead. The book is dead. Long live — the Book! In the first installment of his NEW column, Bob Schatz reminds us that there are no more perfect artifacts than books.	69
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings —This month we cover the National Online Meeting and IOLS, and NASIG.	70
	Biz of Acq—Online Vendor Services Rob Withers describes the range of electronic services provided by monograph and serials vendors.	74
	Bet You Missed It What do search engines and mapping the heavens have in common?	78
	Group Therapy Susan Zappen is interested in Digitizing Music for Web-based Music Class Reserves.	82
	On The Street This month, many of you reaffirmed your belief in Consortia as a way of doing business.	82
	The Bibliotheca Alexandrina: A Progress Report On The Revival of An Ancient Dream by Ron Chepesiuk —	84
	International Dateline Jeffrey gives us a nice complement to the Alexandrina Library with UNESCO and the Modern Library .	87
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Chaos Brian Green explains that EDItEUR now covers books, serials and digital publications.	90
	Not Fit For Print Tenure and Publishing: Strange Bedfellows Indeed, by Tony Leisner — As universities face the need to reduce costs, they will be more receptive to change.	91
	Call for Contributors ATG Millennium Issue	4
	Movable Books by Eleanor M. Heldrich — Did you know that "movable" is the name that has been given to books that are interactive. Most of us, however, just call them pop-up books.	92
	Adventures in Librarianship "This Space Under Construction"	92