AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.12 # 5 November 2000 © Katina Strauch

Charleston Conference Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	This issue Guest Edited by Joyce L. Ogburn(University of Washington)
	An Academic Liaison Program: Making it Work Helen Williams — With the deluge of information on how technology is changing the face, mission, and infrastructure of libraries, there is an increased need for strategies to deal with these changes as they affect our core programs.	1
	Memory Lane ATG Millennium Issue - Call for Contributions. Weíve gotten a lot more, but we still need more! LAST CHANCE! Deadline is Nov. 15th.	5
	The Successful Liaison Program: Librarians and Classroom Faculty As Partners in the Instructional Process Irene K. Risser, Marjorie White and Geraldine Benson — This program is designed to coordinate the basic components of the university library curriculum, comprising information services, collection development, and library instruction.	22
	College Librarians: Partners in Acquisitions and Serials Management Ladd B. Brown, Molly Brennan Cox, and Nancy H. Seamans — Library services at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, are physically centralized.	28
	Collection Development for the Digital Age Sandra S. Kerbel — We now have an opportunity to involve ourselves in the pre-publication activities of the scholarly communication process by guiding, directing, and organizing the intellectual content as a product for the digital environment.	34
	Collaboration and Reallocation: Implementing a New Collection Development Model Janis M. Bandelin and John K. Payne — The distribution of library resource funds to academic departments/disciplines at many college and university libraries is often based on historical tradition with little rationale behind it. The escalating cost of serials in certain disciplines exacerbates the challenge of fairly allocating monies.	40
	Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials Anthony Watkinson — A Publishing view of the SPARC Initiative. Anthony was initially impressed by SPARC. How does he feel now?	46
	Against the Grain Classifieds Need details about the Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award? Find them in this issue.	91
	BackTalk (html | text) Tony Ferguson — '	92
	Troy Williams President & CEO, Questia	50
	Jim McGinty fulltext President, Cambridge Information Group	52
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference titles. Encyclpoedia of Eastern European History, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, The Cutting Edge: An Encyclopedia of Advanced Technologies, and Encyclopedia of the American Constitution are just some of the items discussed this month.	56
	Noteworthy Books Debbie Vaughn — Reviews of The American PresidentsRanked by Performance, American Author Houses, Museums, and Memorials, Eating Diorders: A Reference Sourcebook are just some of the books reviewed in this issue.	60
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Philip Fisher v. Charles Schultz et al, Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia Church of God, Inc.	66
	Legally Speaking Bryan M. Carson — Publishing the Law: The Origins of Legal Publishing. The history of legal publishing covers a lot of ground. In this first column, Bryan discusses law in the ancient world. In the next issue, Bryan will discuss how modern law and legal publishing have been influenced by these ancient principles.	68
	Copyright Questions and Answers What are statutory damages and how do they differ from other types of damages? This is just one of the nitty-gritty questions that Laura Gasaway answers in this regular column.	72
	Papa Lyman Remembers Lyman Newlin — This month Lyman remembers Charleston Conferences.	44
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings - LOEX, and Winthrop's Libraries in Cyber Age Conferences.	74
	Other Side of the Street Thomas Bacher — Principles to live by? Hardly. The Tempe Principles were a set of guidelines intended to transform the scholarly publishing system.	78
	Biz of Acq Forrest E. Link — Bringing Out the Dead: The Romance of Change in Librarianship. The problem these days, says Forrest, is that dead ideas, dead procedures, and, yes, even dead companies haven't the decency to stay that way.	79
	Group Therapy This month, Barbara Weir wants to know if libraries have merged their interlibrary loan departments into acquisitions.	81
	Bet You Missed It What do Mousecalls and Newspaper Microfilming have in common? Read about it in this issue.	82
	Something About Books Jack Walsdorf — This one's about the late Willie Morris.	84
	International Dateline Hu Ming Rong and Haiwang Yuan — Experiencing the China Society of Library Science Annual Conference 2000.	85
	International Dateline Martin White — South Africa et.al. Besides reading a lot, Martinís been a-travelling to South Africa and the Netherlands.	86
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Chaos Sandra K. Paul — Acronyms in Today's Standards World. Well, I've heard of ONIX and EDI and SISAC and BISAC, but what about DRM, DTD, EBX, and ebXML. It's all Chaos!	87
	Designing Librarians: on the Web Anna Belle Leiserson — Digital photography is where it's at.	88
	Webworthy Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area edited by Pamela Rose. Aquariums is one of the subjects this month, getting us all ready for our visit to the South Carolina Aquarium on Thursday night of the Charleston Conference!	90
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Ranked in order of Relevance. Those of us who search the www regularly will laugh out loud at this one.	48