AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.11 # 3 June 1999 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	This issue is Guest Edited by Beau David Case, Head, European and Linguistics Collections, Ohio State University
	Informing American Librarians about the Euro: An Introduction Beau David Case — The euro was introduced on January 1 of this year, and although coins and bills are not yet in circulation, the euro is a serious international currency.	1
	The Euro: Past, Present, and Future Bill Burros — The launch of the euro is a truly historic event not only for the international monetary system, but also for European integration. In addition to its obvious economic impacts, this pooling of monetary sovereignty demonstrates great political commitment.	16
	The Euro and the Book Trade Gilles de La Rochefoucauld — focusing specifically on France, concentrates on what will happen to the publishing business during this transitional period and then examines the consequences of replacing the existing national currencies with the euro for publishing business partners.	20
	How the Euro will Affect the Buying Power of American Librarians by Geert Visscher — Regarding microeconomical effects, we should not expect to see serious savings in the field of lower transaction and hedging costs. It is questionable whether productivity gains resulting from a reallocation of production resources over the eurozone will play an important role in the determination of prices charged to the end user. And it can safely be said that the introduction of the euro should not have significant effects on the buying power of the US librarian.	22
	Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials Ferguson's Good Idea - Albert Henderson has A Response to Back Talk, April, 1999. Good faith collaboration of publishers and librarians promises better solutions for library users than the plans of misers who aim only to further cut costs.	36
	A Little Less than Euro-Phoric: Understanding the British Response by Suzanne Wilson Higgins — Of the 15 countries in the EU, there are four countrie which have chosen to opt out from third stage monetary union-namely the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Greece.	71
	Back Talk This month, Tony Ferguson talks about Chains of Complexity.	94
	Dan Halloran President and CEO — Blackwell’s Book Services, Inc.	26
	Don Chvatal Dora Biblarz interviews Don Chvatal about Richard Abel and Company.	30
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Peter Stevens Reference Librarian — Foster Business Library — University of Washington	62
	David L. Marshall Head of Acquisitions & Serials — Georgetown University	78
	From the Reference Desk by Tom Gilson —	38
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. v. Comline Business Data, Inc., Dustin Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., Gerig v. Krause Publications, Inc.	44
	Copyright Questions and Answer A regular column in which Laura Gasaway. answers all kinds of nitty-gritty questions.	46
	From the Other Side of the Street by Thomas Bacher — Viruses to Die For	48
	Publisher Bestsellers Julie Gammon has been hard at work this month on bestsellers from the University Press of Colorado	50
	Bestsellers in Chemical Technology (Subclass TP) 1998/99 by Françoise Crowell and Bob Nardini —	52
	Innovations Affecting Us RIAA Opposition to Digital Publishing May Soon Crumble — This month, Norm Desmarais tells us that the Recording Industry Association of America could adopt an unremovable watermarking technology to control access to digital music	75
	Academic Book Trends Literature and Literary Criticism - What (and who) do academic libraries buy? by Celia Scher Wagner — Selecting literature and literary criticism poses many challenges to academic libraries, the major one being a disjunct between supply and demand.	56
	Book Pricing Update Online Selection Tools by Marguerite K. McNair and Dan Miller — Why is it that guiding selectors and bibliographers to the Web is not as easy as it would seem?	58
	Media Minder To DVD or Not to DVD?— Philip Hallman gives us some answers and reflections on this thorny issue.	58
	sotto voce Some Thoughts on Change by Bob Schatz — “Library supply, like virtually every other industry in America, is undergoing shrinkage and consolidation. The battle for market share is fierce ...”	60
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings — AAP/PSP Annual Conference and Oklahoma Libraries Conference	64
	Bet You Missed It Did you know that NIH is considering investing in a one-stop, public source for biomedical research papers? How about that the height of the Sears Tower is off by four feet in the tourist brochure? Check out these two articles and more in this month’s column!	66
	Not Fit For Print Are Libraries Sexist? This month, Tony Leisner isn’t at all “politically correct.” He’s obsessed with directions and how men and women use them differently.	80
	International Dateline From the UK by Martin White — — This year the UK Serials Group Annual Conference was a combined event with the European Federation of Serials Groups.	78
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Biz of Acq Statistics, Codes, and Tracking Withdrawn Volumes: — More on Getting the Most Out of Your Automated System by Brian Flaherty	82
	Chaos What Will The Next Generation EDI REALLY Look Like? Sandra K. Paul gives us some information!	84
	Webworthy Unique and interesting Web sites organized by broad subject area edited by Pamela Rose.	86
	Wandering the Web An Eclectic Amalgam of Selected Theater and Theater History Websites Compiled and Annotated by Roxanne Myers Spencer	88
	Group Therapy Submitting an article for publication, can you cite an electronic journal article and, if so, how? These are just some of Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo’s questions.	92
	Call for Contributors	5
	Adventures in Librarianship Resurrection	79