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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | Eliminating Duplication in A Shared Storage Facility: Practical and Political Issues
Joanne Oud — Recent years have seen an increase in the number of shared remote storage facilities being constructed as libraries facing space shortages see the value of sharing storage costs. | 1 |
| | Author Care: The Rights Publishers Offer and What Authors Think
Ana Arias Terry — The old saying that it's a good policy not to bite the hand that feeds you applies in many contexts, including the academic and professional publishing arena. | 24 |
| | Digital Archiving: A Work in Progress
Ana Arias Terry — The field of digital archiving is new in human history and presents a wealth of challenges exacerbated by the increasing rapidity with which the associated technologies are evolving. To grapple with the issues involved, Ana takes us on a stroll along the river of time. | 28 |
| | Biz of Acq - Alibris and 21 North Main: Breaking New Ground in the Search for O.P. Books
Dennis K. Lambert — In recent years, the out of print market has consistently borne happy tidings to acquisitions librarians. Fulfillment rates have lept with the rise of Web-based mega-catalogs that aggregate thousands of book dealers' inventories. Dennis Lambert finds that some used booksellers are raise the bar of customer service standards to give acquisitions librarians promising choices for out of print purchasing. | 32 |
| | Public Prayers
Rodger Smith — tells us about preparing his public library's materials budget. | 36 |
| | Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials
Robert Molyneux — Devil's Advocate - Canaries in the Coal Mine: Bob says that the erosion of full-time faculty from library schools comes at a time when the importance of what we do has never been clearer. | 38 |
| | BackTalk (html)
Tony Ferguson — Double Fold or Double Talk: This is Tony's answer to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold. | 94 |
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| | Keith Courtney
Sales Director, Taylor & Francis, Ltd. | 42 |
| | Mike Markwith
President, TDNet Inc. | 42 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Library Profile:
University of Cape Town | 46 |
| | People Profile:
Digby Sales | 50 |
| | Publisher Profile:
A.K. Peters, Ltd. | 52 |
| | Publisher Profile:
PaperPath, Inc. | 54 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles. Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures and Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Conprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care are just some of the titles discussed this month. | 58 |
| | Monographic Musings
Deborah Vaughn — Book Reviews- In this issue's critical commentary, learn about the Chinese Buddhist holiday Airing the Classics, out-of-control eating, TCP/IP addressing, wizards, sorcerers, Vietnam, and the opinionated salon.com. | 62 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — A&M Records et al. v. Napster & UMG Recordings v. MP3.com | 68 |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan M. Carson — Domain Names, Cybersquatting, and the ICANN System. This column is about names, In these days of the Internet, domain names do make a big difference. Yet how much do we really think about the names that we enter to find Websites? | 71 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - How does one deal with copyright on a photo taken before 1900? | 74 |
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| | And They Were There
Fran Wilkinson — Report from the NASIG 2000 Conference | 78 |
| | Bestsellers on the Middle East
Françoise Crowell — The Middle East continues to dominate the news with the focus seesawing from politics to religion, to democracy, to tyranny and, most often, to crisis. Do you have these books? | 81 |
| | Serials Pricing Update
Marilyn Geller — The Real Cost and Price of Ejournals -If an electronic version of a printed journal is "free," how much does it really cost? | 82 |
| | Book Pricing Update
Tom Loughran — Some Trends in Electronic Publishing - Now that we have been adding eBooks for over a year we can answer three questions: How many eBooks are there? How old are they? and What are all of these books about? | 84 |
| | Sense and Sensibility
Margaret Landesman — What's worrisome about "the Big Deal?" | 86 |
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| | Bet You Missed It
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| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations - The Sales Call (pdf)
Denise Novak — Here we start with the sales call itself, the encounter upon which everything to follow will hinge! | 88 |
| | Pandora's Box
Pat Ditzler and JoAnn Dumas — Anatomy of a Used Book Sale - This is the second in the series concerning creative ideas in library gifts management, edited by Jack Montgomery. | 89 |
| | Something About Books
Jack Walsdorf — There's more to Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year than baseball. | 90 |
| | Oregon Trails
Tom Leonhardt — is moving and this time he's taking only the bare necessities with him! | 91 |
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| | International Dateline
Martin White — This month, Martin reports on several important meetings, ALPSP, the UK Serials Group as well as Acquisitions Budgets. | 56 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. | 85 |
| | Desperately Seeking Website (pdf)
Amber Williams — A discussion between Eric Albright and Amber Williams about electronic journals. | 92 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — If Rumors Were Mules - This month Ned says he couldn't help himself. He had to a do a satire of a certain ATG column. | 50 |
| | You Gotta Go to School for That?
Jared Seay — The Perfect Office Mate | 67 |
| | Millennium Minutes
Dora Biblarz — Spring, 1971, Richard Abel and Don Chvatal testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Library of Congress | 76 |
