AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.10 # 5 November 1998 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	ATG Annual Report Survey ..... Insert FILL THIS OUT!	0
	E-commerce — A Collection Development Perspective — Part 1: Identification and Selection by Kent Mulliner — E-commerce can deal with the use of a network (especially the Internet) in the identification and selection of the information to be acquired, the delivery of resources, and the payment for materials. This article focuses on the first of these perspectives.	1
	E-Commerce and Information Delivery by Judy Luther — 1997 figures estimated Web-based retail sales at $2.5 billion, which is merely one tenth of one percent of the total retail sales of $2 trillion. Despite dramatic growth, e-commerce is still in its infancy as many of the rules of doing business are changing.	16
	A Status Report on Credit Card Use by Acquisitions Departments by Janet Flowers — The use of credit cards offers new flexibility in procurement options that can enhance services. This represents yet another step toward the electronic transfer of funds.	19
	A Word About Data Encryption by James Williams — With the increased use of e-commerce and online banking, encryption is not only important, it is essential.	20
	Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials Albert Henderson is concerned about The Death of Knowledge.	24
	Back Talk What Business Are We In? Is a library a business or a place to do research asks Tony Ferguson.	94
	Robert Miranda President — Cognizant Communications	32
	Martha Whittaker V. President, Marketing — Academic Book Center	35
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Judy Webster 1998 Charleston Conference Director — Head, Acquisitions and Processing — University of Tennessee Libraries	26
	Heather Miller 1998 Charleston Conference Director — Assistant Director for Technical Services — University at Albany	27
	Barbara Dean 1998 Charleston Conference Director — Head of Acquisitions — Arlington County Public Library	28
	Robin Lent 1998 Charleston Conference Director — Head of Collection Development — University of New Hampshire Library	30
	Life in the Technology-Saturated Shallows Read Ellen Finnie Duranceau's provocative review of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.	37
	Book Reviews Reviews of Outsourcing Library Operations in Academic Libraries: An Overview of Issues and Outcomes	42
	TestDriving CD-ROMs McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Barron's Book Study Notes	44
	From the Reference Desk Hurricanes, new library building and all, Tom Gilson keeps reviewing reference books!	48
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking This month Lloyd Rich is concerned with Delivery and Acceptance of a Manuscript.	52
	Cases of Note Copyright - Acuff-Rose in the News Again — Originality v. Novelty; Copyright infringement—Conflict of laws— Russian copyright law on works-for-hire; U.S. Copyright law—Works-for-hire— Reverse passing off	56
	Copyright Questions and Answers A regular column by Laura Gasaway.	58
	Book Pricing Update Amy Capen and Dan Miller tell us about Reference Publishing in 1998.	60
	Publisher Bestsellers American Geophysical Union	62
	South Carolina Bestsellers In honor of the 18th Charleston Conference, Françoise Crowell and Bob Nardini have found bestsellers about South Carolina!	64
	From the Other Side of the Street Thomas Bacher takes a tongue-in-cheek stroll through some of the best course offerings for the library and publishing communities.	66
	Academic Book Trends This month Celia Wagner is concerned with Approval Plans and Library Collections - Do They All Look Alike?	73
	Issues in Vendor-Library Relations This month Barry Fast reminds us that it is easy to forget the force, the influence, the place a library holds in a community.	68
	Oregon Trails Tom Leonhardt recently rediscovered a box of old books that led him to think about Booklover Heaven.	74
	sotto voce Is anyone polling the outsider kids who use university library computers to see who they are? Bob Schatz has some ideas about Seeing Beyond Problems.	76
	Papa Lyman Remembers Reunions and Kansas.	78
	And They Were There Reports on The Oklahoma Conference and SLA.	81
	Biz of Acq "You know continuations are difficult when you can't agree on a definition," says Reba Leiding in her article this month on Challenging Materials: Taming the Continuations Monster.	83
	Bet You Missed It Articles you might have missed but Sarah Tusa and company didn't!	86
	Group Therapy What do you do with your semi-annual volumes of Chem Abstracts when you get the five-year cumulative indexes?	87
	International Dateline How Many Countries Are There? Do you know?	88
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Nouvelle Cuisine Do you Understand your IP Address?	70
	Acquiring Minds Want to Know Who should own works that have been created with significant resources and investments by institutions, faculty, and staff? Joyce Ogburn discusses this and many other questions in Ownership of Intellectual Property in the Academic Environment.	90
	Innovations by Norman Desmarais — What's the Fuss About Digital Video?	92
	On the Road by Edna Laughrey — Woman with the Striped Dress on ...	22
	Library Profile Acquisitions Department - SUNY Buffalo	28
	Something About Books Jack Walsdorf likes reading bits and pieces from books before he falls asleep.	40
	Adventures in Librarianship Deflection Development	72