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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | The Year in Copyright
Lolly Gasaway — Beginning with the end of October, 1998 until late December, 1999, there have been significant amendments to the law, important government reports, Congressional hearings and court decisions mark the period. | 1 |
| | Supplying Books to Libraries: The State of the Industry in 1999
Daniel P Halloran — This has been a year of change for the bookselling industry as a whole. Two large mergers in 1999 spawned a new competitive environment for book vendors and ebooks are on the scene. What will the next year bring? | 20 |
| | Concerns Carried Into the Third Millennium
Karen A. Hunter — Here is Karen's fourth annual listing of the journal-related issues that give her reason to pause and reflect in the passing of the last twelve months. | 22 |
| | Libraries and Lawsuits - The Tasini and Ryan Cases
Georgia Harper — Two recent cases involving authors' rights indirectly could affect library practices where libraries must obtain licenses to make copies (interlibrary loan and electronic reserves) or to access and use electronic works (licensed databases).
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| | 2000 Charleston Conference
November 1-4, 2000 - Call for Ideas/Papers/Speakers, etc. | 28 |
| | The Impact of the Tasini Case: A Content Aggregator's View
Phil Wallas —
Will products disappear or become full of holes like Swiss cheese? Will prices increase? Phil gives us his understanding of some of the issues from a business perspective. | 30 |
| | On the Heels of Tasini: Business as Usual or New Wrinkle?
Ana Arias Terry —
Publishing industry camps ponder some implications in the aftermath of the Tasini ruling. | 32 |
| | Memory Lane
ATG Millennium Issue - Call for Contributions - Hey, y'all we've got TWO already! Where's yours? | 35 |
| | Obituary - Kim Fisher
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| | Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials
Once More With Albert - Here are Tony's comments on Albert Henderson's Op Eds ... The sequel is upcoming, we hope ... | 38 |
| | Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
And it's not Steve ... A new (!) section of ATG | 40 |
| | Why Do We Still Buy Books?
David Stam — | 81 |
| | BackTalk (html | text)
Tony Ferguson — Buddy Can You Spare Some Change? - Lately, Tony Ferguson says, his life seems to be centered on change experiences. | 86 |
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| | Jonathan Tasini
About Libraries, Publishers, Writers and Electronic Rights. | 42 |
| | Charles Halpin
About Bowker and the new Books In Print. | 46 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference titles. | 50 |
| | Book Reviews
Reviews by Darryl A. Phillips of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. Indexes of Parts I, II, and III and Military Religion in Roman Britain.
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| | Testdriving CDROMs
Fluid Mechanics: an interactive text and African-American History and Culture.
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Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
From Concept to Working Model by Ana Arias Terry - Thanks to a suite of generic license models designed to accommodate the needs of librarians and publishers in the electronic resources environment, the desired virtues now reside in a practical and attainable realm.
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| | Copyright Questions and Answers
A regular column in which Laura Gasaway. answers all kinds of nitty-gritty questions. This month questions are about photo images, musical plays, multimedia PowerPoint, and ILL records. Whew ...
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| | Bestsellers in Anatomy & Physiology
Françoise Crowell and Bob Nardini —
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| | From the Other Side of the Street
Thomas Bacher — A Response to Peter Givler's "Point of View" Scholarly Books, the Coin of the Realm of Knowledge is the subject of Tom's column this month.
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| | Group Therapy
There are two of these this issue - Keeping JSTOR journals in hardcopy and Dealing with Auditors (Grrr...)
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| | They Used to Call it Publishing
Electronic Business XML - On November 17- 19, 1999 a meeting was called which, Sandy Paul hopes, will end the confusion and create a set of meaningful XML/EDI standards.
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| | sotto voce
Reading Hope into the Actions of one Individual - Rigoberto Charuc in Guatemala is Bob Schatz' subject this month.
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| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings - Delegation of U.S. Librarians Visits Cuba
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| | Bet You Missed It
Domestic journals in China, digital certificates, perfume, and bulls and bears are just some of the subjects covered this month.
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| | Innnovations
Ana Arias Terry — Books on-Demand: The Lightning Print Story On-demand - printing and distribution as an alternative business model is the focus of this contribution.
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| | Oregon Trails
Buzzword Bingo and Newspeak Syndrome - Here's a way to make it through some of those meetings.
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| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Barry Fast — Hitler and Lennon - Increasingly, the way in which traditional, non-Internet information is assembled and distributed is concentrating in fewer, larger organizations. This trend poses a greater threat to intellectual freedom and the right to learning than economic or technology gaps,
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| | International Dateline
Martin White — Views on a Range of International Topics
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Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Chaos
Scanning the Bar Code on Serials - Sandy Paul sent a message out on Serialst asking those scanning the bar code to say so. Here she tells us about her responses.
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| | Webworthy
Unique and interesting Web sites organized by broad subject area edited by Pamela Rose. This month subjects covered include Teaching, Seismology, Environmental Science.
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| | Not Go to Charleston?
Heather Miller — | 78 |
| | Designing Librarians...On the Web
WOW! Anna Belle Leiserson brings us her considerable Web expertise in this new column.
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
You May Have Already Won. by Ned Kraft - We always save the best for last ...
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