AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.14 # 3 June 2002 © Katina Strauch

ALA Annual Conference Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	This issue Guest Edited by , Rick Lugg
	The Amazon Effect Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Virtual Approval Plans, and the Changing Nature of Book Selection - These feature articles deal with library selectors.	1
	ONIX Michael Holdsworth — A Transforming Standard	22
	The Virtual Selection Process Ted Fons — The ILS Perspective	26
	The Virtual Approval Shelf Amy McColl and Amy Morrison, Eric Pumroy, Norm Medeiros, and Linda Bills — A Look Towards the Future?	28
	The Decline of the Poultry Selector Stephen Pugh — Thoughts on the Virtual Approval Plan	32
	Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials Allison P. Mays and Larry Madison — The Dueling Op Eds	36
	Back Talk - Memory Lane (html | text) Tony Ferguson — It's Budget Time!	86
	John Kennerly Library Director, McCain Library, Erskine College and Theological Seminary	38
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Library Profile Erskine College and Theological Seminary	34
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Policies; Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia; and the Statistical Handbook on the World's Children are just some of the reference titles reviewed this month.	46
	Book Reviews Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - In this issue, read about daily life throughout history, American musical theatre, and cozy politics.	50
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Punitives Get Whacked	54
	Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column, Can you send hyperlinks through email? This is just one of the questions Lolly answers this month.	58
	Legally Speaking Bryan Carson — I got you babe! The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act & Eldred v. Ashcroft	59
	Fair Use or Foul Play Norman Desmarais — Content owners have never felt comfortable with fair use and have tried to erode it.	63
	Papa Lyman Remembers Lyman Newlin — ABA/BEA - Then and Now	64
	Reality Check Edna and Earl Laughrey — What publications do librarians use to select material? We want to know!	64
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings - University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference by Linda K. Lewis and ALHHS 2002 Conference by Lucretia McClure.	67
	Books Are Us Anne Robichaux — Searching the Web for "librarians in fiction" resulted in several interesting Websites and also pointed to a bibliography of the same name!	71
	Bet You Missed It Pamela M. Rose — What do Disney movies and AOL Time Warner have in common? Read about it in this issue.	41
	Library Marketplace Neil Jaffe — Print on Demand (POD): An Important Step in the Change to a Digital Distribution Model for Books	72
	Oregon Trails Thomas Leonhardt — Readers, Authors, and Collectors	75
	Issues in Vendor/Library Relations Mark Sandler — What Movie Is This Anyway: La Dolce Vita or My Life as a Dog?	76
	Short Subjects Carolyn Morris — Psychology: This is a NEW COLUMN delineating particular disciplines in detail.	80
	International Dateline Anthony Watkinson — Big news in Europe and prospects of even greater consolidation among the big publishers.	82
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Group Therapy Rosann Bazirjian and Kent Mulliner — Links to Fulltext Databases - Who and What?	43
	Inside Pandora's Box Michael Binder — The Development of the First PDA Library portal for Academic Libraries	65
	Innovations Norman Desmarais — 3-D Data Storage	84
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — The Dixon Tapes: If you earned your MLS on or before 1972 you will certainly remember the Carpetgate affair that lead to the fall of Dr. Richard Dixon, the Dean of Darkmound University Library.	78
	Charleston Conference - Call for papers This year's theme "Two Faces Have I: One for Books and One for Bytes."	79