AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.11 # 2 April 1999 © Katina Strauch

ACRL, SLA, MLA Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Practical Examples from the Field
	The Acquisitions Workstation — Collection Development Style by Linda A. Brown — Collection development librarians can customize their workstations by building a Web page to cover three aspects of collection development: 1) public service and outreach efforts to our constituencies; 2) links to tools to enable selectors to use the Web and work more efficiently; 3) selection of Web resources.	1
	Scatter and Save! An evaluation of the adoption of centralised classification and outsourcing by Eileen Hiller — At the University of Huddersfield (UK), technical services staff needed time to address issues such as managing electronic formats and the demands of a growing student population. Here is how they managed their predicament.	18
	Training the New Selector by Thomas Izbicki — There is a need to anticipate vacancies and to prepare for interim arrangements, to be followed by the orientation of a new colleague to a particular library environment. Part of this process is the documentation of the programs and elucidation of the process.	22
	Looking for Approval? — Changing Approval Plan Vendors by Kenneth L. Kirkland — DePaul recently changed approval plan vendors. What were some of the criteria and how is the process going?	26
	Op— Ed — Opinions and Editorials — Murder by Ignorance by Thomas W. Leonhardt — The Electronic book versus the Real Thing —”Technology is a tool that we have become too fond of to the point that we look to it as either the source of our problems or our salvation. It is neither. We must look inward for both,” says Mr. Leonhardt.	28
	Mergers & Acquisitions Regarding Medusa by Linda Defendeifer —	30
	Back Talk — Be Careful What You Wish For by Anthony W. Ferguson — Three Alternative Collection Development Visions for Academic Libraries	94
	Gary Wilson Director, ESCN Database Reports	33
	Ursula Springer Publisher — Springer Publishing Company	35
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Robert C. Richards, Jr. Technical Services Librarian, University of Colorado Law Library	32
	Mary Pelzer Hudson Head of Technical Services, Case Western Reserve University Law Library	56
	From the Reference Desk by Tom Gilson —	36
	TestDriving CD-ROMS Reviews of CD-ROM products — The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Artfact Fine Arts , Norman Rockwell: The Man and His Art	40
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking This month Jack Montgomery talks about Hyperlaw versus Matthew Bender	44
	Cases of Note Paramount Pictures Corporation v. Carol Publishing Group, and Ty, Inc. v. West Highland Publishing, Inc., and Highview Recording, LLC — This month the courts wade into Star Trek and Beanie Babies!	48
	Copyright Questions and Answers A regular column in which Laura Gasaway answers all kinds of nitty-gritty questions.	52
	Book Pricing Update by William P. Kane — Online Acquisitions Tools and Prices — Electronic commerce’s effortlessness alone doesn’t ncessarily make it a good thing.	54
	Publisher Profile by Matt Nauman — Grove’s Dictionaries Inc.	56
	Publisher Bestsellers by Julie Gammon — University Press of Kentucky	58
	Biology Bestsellers for 1998 by Françoise Crowell and Bob Nardini —	60
	On The Street Out of Print Searching on the World Wide Web — This survey yielded some great comments from lots of people!	62
	And They Were There by Julia Gelfand — Reports of Meetings — Alternative Models of Scholarly Publishing in Higher Education	66
	Biz of Acq by Rick Anderson — To License or Not to License — That Really Ought to Be the Question — Of the many changes that the electronic information revolution has brought to library acquisitions, perhaps none is as significant as the licensing agreement.	68
	Bet You Missed It What do Rupert Murdoch and the Smashing Pumpkins have in common? Read about these articles in the current press in this issue!	73
	International Dateline by Martin White — Higher Education in the UK — An overview of the way that universities are funded in the UK, and also in the scale and rate of development of their collections and services.	80
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	We Used to Call It Publishing New Intellectual Property Pathways by Judith Appelbaum — Now that distinctions among books, periodicals and assorted other formats are blurring toward the vanishing point in digital environments, we all know it is time to do things differently.	82
	Wandering the Web by Ruth Kinnersly — Children’s Literature: Selected Resources	84
	Chaos by Norman Desmarais — XML and Its Potential for ECommerce — Although humans have long envisioned that computers would improve communication and data interchange for commercial applications, reality usually required developing custom interfaces for each different system to facilitate transactions with suppliers and customers.	86
	Webworthy by Pamela Rose — More Interesting Internet Sites	90
	Group Therapy This month, Anne Frohlich wants to know — How do you handle offers of access to online editions of print journals when the access is by registration and password?	90
	Call for Contributors	4
	Call for Papers 1999 Charleston Conference — November 4-6, 1999, Charleston, S.C.	64
	Adventures in Librarianship by Ned Kraft — To be or not to be	92