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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | This issue Guest Edited by , Miriam Gilbert | |
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| | eBooks ex machina? Dispatches from the New Digital Information Order
Miriam Gilbert — What a difference a year makes! Between the hype and the hope, all of us in the information industries are now struggling to define (and redefine) a strategy for the place of eBooks in the digital environment. | 1 |
| | The Shot Heard 'Round the Publishing World
Kelly Franklin — Decades ago Marshall McLuhan raised questions of matching medium to message. | 20 |
| | eBooks Two Years Later:
Nancy J. Gibbs — The North Carolina State University Perspective | 22 |
| | Nylink's Shared Collection:
Mary-Alice Lynch — A Collaborative Introduction of a New Technology | 26 |
| | The eBook and the National Library
Mark Bide & Kim Richardson — What is the appropriate strategy for a national library in the age of the eBook? | 30 |
| | Health Science eContent Distribution: The Challenges and Opportunities
Sherry Thompson — The health science marketplace offers the opportunity to distribute not only online eBook content and PDA content, but a variety of networked digital resources as well. | 34 |
| | The Host with the Most: eBook Distribution to Libraries
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Some of the current confusion in the eBook market stems from competition and uncertainty over who in the supply chain (Publishers? eBook aggregators? Book vendors? EJournal vendors?) will perform which of the roles of content identification or discovery; commercial transaction involving order and payment; rights transaction that delineates use; or delivery of content to the supported reading platform(s). | 35 |
| | ATG Report: 21st Annual Charleston Conference
Michael Young — Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition: The Trends They Are A'Changing - If you weren't in Charleston in November, this will make you wish you had been! | 40 |
| | Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials
Robert Molyneux — Devil's Advocate - Macropreservation of the Human Record | 44 |
| | BackTalk (html)
Tony Ferguson — Reading Is Never Exclusively a Passive Experience | 94 |
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| | Jay Jordan
CEO, OCLC | 47 |
| | Greg Tananbaum
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress | 51 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | People Profile
John Long — Dr. Rob Goldston | 54 |
| | Company Profile
Allison P. Mays — Serials Solutions - One Library Experience: Our Serials Solutions List | 57 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, Encyclopedia of Christmas, Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, and Encyclopedia of Ethics are just some of the titles reviewed this month. | 58 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan Carson — Researching the Legal Issues Faced by Librarians, Publishers, and Book Distributor | 63 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company | 67 |
| | Questions & Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - So - what happens when a faculty member donates a personal subscription to the library? | 68 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Michelle Flinchbaugh — UMBC@BuyBooksFast.Com: Choosing and Using an Online Vendor to Improve Acquisitions Services | 70 |
| | A Decade of Change
Rob Withers — A Study of Acquisitions Positions in Libraries | 73 |
| | And They Were There - Reports of Meetings
Claire-Lise Bénaud and Sharon Moynahan — Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALAM) | 74 |
| | Bestsellers in Islamic Studies
Françoise Crowell — The events of September 11th have created a strong interest in books on Islam and the Middle East. | 76 |
| | Book Pricing Update - British Book Prices 2000-2001
Tom Loughran — What has been mostly speculation in the economic news lately, became a reality in British book publishing last year. | 77 |
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| | The Collection Development Role of the Library Liaison:
Jack Montgomery and Sean Kinder — A View from Both Sides of the Fence | 77 |
| | Group Therapy
Rosann Bazirjian — Checking for Duplicates | 79 |
| | The Library Marketplace
John Riley — Report on IFLA | 80 |
| | I, User
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Discipline-Based Portals: The New Content Mediators | 81 |
| | In Search of Equitable Fund Allocations
Norman Desmarais — | 83 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Barbara Kawecki — Barbara Kawecki Interviews Mary Bushing (Montana State University) - Do you think consortia have advanced or stymied or had no impact on collection development? | 87 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Coral Reefs and Suicidal Poets have in common? Read about it here! | 89 |
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| | International Dateline
Barry Fast and Anthony Watkinson — The Frankfurt Book Fair, 2001 - Don't miss this double dose of information -- as we have reports from both Barry Fast and Anthony Watkinson who attended the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. | 60 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Desperately Seeking Website (pdf)
Amber Williams — E-Journals: The Cost of Convenience - The assumption that the electronic journal would free up costs for publishers proved false in a society that desires digital displays without sacrificing the comfort of print. | 56 |
| | Wandering the Web
Jack Montgomery — Selected Online Resources for Teaching Children about Money and Finance | 91 |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. | 93 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — Not Very Smart | 43 |
| | Millennium Minutes
Heather Miller — In this, our last, installment of Millennium Minutes, Heather talks about the changes in librarianship over the past twenty years. | 87 |
