AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.12 # 3 June 2000 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Guest Edited by Beau David Case (Ohio State University) andAnn Okerson (Yale University)
	Cutting-Edge Articles on Cutting-Edge Approval Plans: Beau David Case —	1
	Squeezing the Most out of the Approval Plan Budget Glen Worley — The University of Texas at Austin and Blackwell's Book Services Preferred Edition and Paper Preferred Options	16
	Processing Foreign Language Books without Catalog Librarians Thomas H. Marshall — At the University of Arizona Library	28
	The ABC's of the Fermilab Library Approval Plan Sara R. Thompson —	30
	Slavic Studies Approval Plans: Stephen D. Corrsin — Report on a Panel at the 1999 Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies	33
	In Memoriam Gerry Stormer —	34
	Here's Looking At...Library-Based Profiling: Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — The Real New Business Model (A Plan to Reinvigorate Library/Vendor Relations)	36
	Op Ed-Opinions and Editorials John Abbott — How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Merger.Concern exists in some academic library acquisitions and collection development offices that the recent bookseller mergers signal an unfortunate end to the largely familiar and friendly business of supplying academic monographs.	38
	ATG SPECIAL REPORT ON THE DIGITAL DILEMMA Guest Edited by Ann Okerson (Yale University) — An Introduction	45
	Origins of the Digital Dilemma Alan S. Inouye —	45
	The Digital Dilemma: Karen Hunter — A Publisher's Perspective	47
	Pondering the Digital Dilemma: Clifford Lynch — A Personal Reflection	49
	The Digital Dilemma: Bernard R. Sorkin — Intellectual Property in the Information Age: A Slightly Critical View	51
	The Digital Dilemma Sarah Sully —	53
	Memory Lane ATG Millennium Issue.	60
	In Memoriam Meta Nissley —	76
	BackTalk (html | text) Tony Ferguson — Information Enablers & Librarians - What are the major challenges facing large research libraries and their directors?	98
	Bob Doran Senior Vice President-Electronic Business and Information Services-Baker & Taylor,Inc.	62
	Ed Colleran & Bruce Funkhouser Copyright Clearance Center	64
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Rick Anderson Head Acquisitions Librarian, UNC Greensboro	40
	Library Profile-Millsaps-Wilson Library Allison P. Mays — On the Brink of Change	58
	Allison P. Mays Collection Development Librarian, Millsaps College	60
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles. Encyclopedia of Genocide, Constitutional Rights Sourcebook, Encyclopedia of American Radio, and Who's Who in Economics are some of the items discussed this month.	66
	Book Review Review of Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios.	72
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note LA Times vs. Free Republic-This case is about fair use and Websites. Pretty interesting...	78
	Legally Speaking Bryan Carson — What does the Microsoft trial and verdict really mean, and how does this effect the library and publishing community?	79
	Copyright Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — If a library scans bookcovers, using its purchased copies, can it forgo asking permission from the publishers? This is just one of the nitty-gritty questions answered in this regular column.	81
	Papa Lyman Remembers Lyman Newlin — The McGuffey Readers	73
	And They Were There Reports of the Meeting-ALCTS/AS Preconference	82
	Other Side of the Street Thomas Bacher — A Farewell to Fair Use-In the world of printed information, public institutions placed limited restraints on persons wishing to photocopy articles for their own use. Not so in the electronic environment.	84
	Oregon Trails Tom Leonhardt — Electronic Book Hype. Are we to believe that by 2009, the electronic book will have superseded the printed, bound book?	85
	Biz of Acq Rob Richards — Stewardship, Partnership, Self-Understanding: An Exploration of Values in Acquisitions Work.	87
	sotto voce Bob Schatz — Some Thoughts on the "Bump" in Bumper Stickers.	91
	Bet You Missed It What Do PubMed and Walmart Have In Common? Read about it in this issue.	92
	International Dateline Martin White — Some news from the UK.	93
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Innovations Affecting Us Norm Desmarais — DataPlay's High Density Disc and Agilent's Optical Switch Fabric.	94
	Webworthy Pamela Rose — Unique and Interesting Websites Organized by Broad Subject Area. This month one of the subjects is computer viruses. I think that is especially timely.	96
	An Update: Sources for Electronic Journals on the Web Judy Luther —	42
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Pitches the latest media bonanzas, coming soon to a screen near you!	55