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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | Alternative Presses
Bob Nardini — Making decisions on alternative books can be among the hardest you'll ever have to make as librarian. | 1 |
| | Demystifying the Ebook: What is it, where will it lead us, and who's in the game? (html)
Ana Arias Terry — The ebook is no longer confined to science fiction. | 18 |
| | netLibrary.com: Cautions Optimism/Views from Research Library and University Press
Janet Flower — Like a meteor, the concept of ebook as a collection and not just as a novelty has suddenly hit the scholary communications world. At the UNC-CH Acedemic Affairs Library, staff were vaguely aware of the development but a recent meeting with the University of North Carolina Press opened new avenues. | 22 |
| | Op Ed- Openions and Editorials
Gary Herald — Don't disconnect your vendor. Gary wants libraries to continue to have choices in booksellers. | 26 |
| | Back Talk
Tony Ferguson — Librarian Myths: Familiar and Comforting, but True | 94 |
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| | Adam Klein
Cheif Client Officer, RoweCom | 28 |
| | Keith Howard
Owner and Managing Director, MCB University Press | 30 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — | 32 |
| | TestDriving CD-ROMS
Reviews of CD-ROM Products- Experiments and Observations on Electricity/Benjamin Franklin | 36 |
| | Book Reviews
Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park-by Ellen Finnie Duranceau plus Garland's Encyclopedia of World Music: Relating Music to Culture reviewd by Mike Phillips, Decision Points: Boolean Logic Computer Users and Beginning Online Searchers and Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart both reviewed by Debbie Vaughn | 38 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
Copyright and Trade Secrets or What?-Tasini vs. The New York Times and John Canter vs. West Publishing Co., Inc. | 44 |
| | Copyright Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — A regular column which Laura Gasaway answers all kinds of nitty-gritty questions. | 50 |
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| | Handling Medusa
John Cox — Mergers in publishing: Do they matter? | 52 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Norm Desmarais — Octavo Revolutionizes digitial publishing and preservation | 56 |
| | Best Selling Recent Siction 1999
Francoise Crowell — | 58 |
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| | Oregon Trail
Tom Leonhardt — Support your local book seller | 60 |
| | Book Pricing Update
Gary Nees — Economics of a goofy business- if you ever though of being a book seller read this. | 62 |
| | sotto voice
Bob Schatz — My Last Words (maybe) on mergers | 70 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings ALCTS eBooks Preconference and SALALM | 72 |
| | Bet You Missed It
What do scientific publishing and the Department of Energy have in common? | 80 |
| | Papa Lymann Remembers
Lyman Newlin — October Salad Days, Lyman takes us back to 1916 and the price of textbooks | 84 |
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| | International Dateline
Martin White — The UK Perspective | 86 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Biz of Acq
Neil Jaffe — Paperback Prebinding: Finding its Place in the Budget | 88 |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Web sites organized by broad subject area. | 92 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — Desperate Ax | 24 |
| | You Gotta Go to School for That?
Jerry Seay — Baby Strollers and ZZ Top | 68 |
