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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Call for Papers | 84 |
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| | Publishers Speak | |
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| | Tossin’ and Turnin’ All Night: Publishers’ Dreams and Nightmares
by Barbara Meyers, Bob Bovensculte, and Ann Lowry — Dreams and nightmares—many a truth is said in jest— from a
consultant and two publishers, one with the American Chemical Society, the other with the U. of Illinois Press. | 1 |
| | Papa Lyman, Carolyn Ammons, and John Laraway Remember Judy Webster
Papa Lyman, Carolyn Ammons, and John Laraway — | 22 |
| | Costs, Archiving and the Publishing Process in Electronic STM Journals
Peter B. Boyce says that subscribers to electronic journals should investigate the archival quality of the electronic material they
are licensing, and they need not accept at face value that adding an electronic edition must necessarily cost more. | 24 |
| | What the scientist really wants from electronic journals
Says Anthony Watkinson: “The starting point is that publishers and librarians alike are in reality intermediaries. We are all links
in the information chain.” | 26 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials
Robert Franklin — Robert Franklin has an opinion about the “Protection of Literary Titles? article that appeared in the September ATG | 30 |
| | Back Talk — Lost in Space:
Tony Ferguson — Three Competing Virtual Libraries | 86 |
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| | Ron Akie
CEO— SilverPlatter, Inc. | 34 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson contiues his reference reviews! | 36 |
| | Book Reviews
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| | TestDriving CD-ROMs
Reviews of CD-ROM products — Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM and Funk and Wagnall’s Unabridged Encyclopedia | 44 |
| | Media Minder
Philip Hallman gives us a look at a new selection tool for media—Ambassador Media 1998 Resource Guide . | 55 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
This month Lloyd Rich writes about the Protection of Fictional Characters. | 48 |
| | Copyright Questions and Answers
A regular column in which Laura Gasaway. answers all kinds of nitty-gritty questions. | 50 |
| | Cases of Note
Copyright—Collected Works; Copyright - Work-for-hire - When is an employee an employee?—Right to authorship credit | 52 |
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| | Book Pricing Update
Book Pricing Update ..... 54
Paper versus Cloth: Does the Dollar Difference Really Count? | 54 |
| | Computer Science Bestsellers
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| | Mergers and Acquisitions — Who Owns What Now?
This month we welcome Linda Defendeifer as our new column editor. Hooray! | 56 |
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| | Something About Books
Jack Walsdorf tries to answer the question: Why Do You Have All Those Books? | 57 |
| | Issues in Vendor-Library Relations
Barry Fast is Going Loco over In Loco Parentis: — Buying Internet Filters. | 58 |
| | Oregon Trails
This month, Tom Leonhardt is doing a little publisher-catalog surfing in Publishers’ Catalogs Revisited. | 60 |
| | sotto voce
by Bob Schatz. — Some Thoughts on Purpose and Libraries | 61 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings — PTPL (Potomac Technical Processing Librarians) | 62 |
| | Biz of Acq
Identifying New Titles from Publishers and Vendors — Rob Withers draws on survey results, conversations with librarians, library
science literature, and observations about Web resources, to make sense of the plethora of aids, and to help us identify those tools which
are best suited for our local situations. | 63 |
| | Group Therapy
Jeannette Skwor, Jane Clarkson, and John Keeth have a discussion on the topic of replacing missing pages through Interlibrary
Loan. | 66 |
| | Inside Pandora’s Box
Power and Influence—You Can Make A Difference Says Sally G. Reed, “In today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive
environment, a good library director surely must place
‘advocacy’ at the top of the list of job requirements. And it’s a job that won’t be effective unless it’s ongoing and aggressive.” | 67 |
| | Bet You Missed It
What do the Frankfurt Book Fair and the World Wide Web have in common? They are both the focus of articles you will be
interested in this month. | 69 |
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| | Electronic journal management in the corporate sector
Electronic journal management in the corporate sector ..... 71
Martin White lets us in on some of the needs of the corporate library market and how some of their requirements are different
from those with which we are familiar . | 71 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Acquiring Minds Want to Know
This month Joyce Ogburn has taken a humorous look at a serious issue — How Many Librarians Would It Take | 62 |
| | Innovations
Judy Luther has been studying Ebooks—The Next Generation. | 74 |
| | XML: Organizing the Internet
by Norm Desmarais. — | 75 |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose begins this NEW COLUMN by showing us some Science Sites on the Web.. | 79 |
| | Drinking From the Firehose
Eleanor Cook is concerned about The Year 2000 (Y2K) Millennium Bug: Or, The End of the World as We Know It and she is
definitely not alone. | 81 |
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| | Call for Contributors
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| | On the Road
This is the story of how Pamela Goude found Alligators in Charleston? Fore! | 82 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship
Is everything you say or write Crystal Clear? | 83 |
