AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.14 # 4 September 2002 © Katina Strauch

Reference Publishing Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Guest Editor	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	8
	Rumo(u)rs from Paddington	12
	This issue Guest Edited by Tom Gilson (College of Charleston)
	Would You Like Print With That? Frances C. Wilkinson and Linda Lewis — Will Electronic Reference Packages Supplant Print?	1
	Aggregation, Integration and the Library Without Walls? Adam Hodgkin — Content aggregators are playing an increasingly prominent role in delivering electronic subscription resources to libraries.	26
	Online Auction Services Orders: Nick J. Vincelli — An Order Librarian's Reflections on OLAS	30
	Digital Reference: Steve McKinzie and Jonathan D. Lauer — A New Library Paradigm or the Emperor's New Clothes	34
	Op Ed - Opinions and Editorials Rick Anderson — IMBHCO (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) - LJ And the NRA: Separated at Birth? Or, Knee-Jerk Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows	40
	ATG Special Report Mark Y. Herring — Libraries In The Cyberage - Filtering, Censorship and the First Amendment: Libraries at the Crossroads	42
	Back Talk - Use Statistics: Tony Ferguson — Recently, a university in Hong Kong was taken to task in the press for using public funds to buy and subsequently store lesser-used materials.	94
	Sean Pidgeon Reference Publisher for the Nature Publishing Group	60
	David Levinson and Karen Christensen Berkshire Publishing Group	63
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	People Profile - Rick Anderson Director of Resource Acquisition, University of Nevada, Reno	59
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — This month Tom weighs in on the issue of electronic reference publishing with some thoughts on a unique reference work, the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.	69
	Book Reviews Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - In this issue, read about medieval castles, quotable funnies, and ancient Greece.	70
	Test Driving CD-ROMs Burton Callicott — Review of CD-ROM Product - Oxford English Dictionary	73
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking Bryan M. Carson — Search Warrants and Records: What Libraries and Bookstores Need to Know	75
	Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - The library has some 16mm films from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) that are used by the Aviation Department. If federal government materials are in public domain, is it possible to convert the format of the films to video?	77
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Commercial Appropriation - Those lusty lads and lasies at Abercrombies are at it again.	78
	Biz of Acq (pdf) Paul T. Jackson — Developing Book Donation Resources	80
	And They Were There Christine Mueller — Reports of Meetings - Trends and Traditions featured at SALALM, 2002	83
	Best Sellers - Reference Titles Françoise Crowell — This is the second year Françoise has compiled a list of YBPs best selling reference titles and she thought it might be interesting to compare the two lists.	84
	Talk of the Trade Barry Fast — Barry is back as a regular ATG columnist! He says that the Book Trade may not be as glitzy as The Industry (Hollywood), but there is more than enough gossip to share.	85
	How the Other Half Lives: Allison P. Mays — My Experience in Crossing Over to the Vendor Side - Allison represented Serials Solutions at a MINITEX meeting. She tells us all about it.	87
	Issues in Vendor/Library Relations Reading the Map - An interview by Bob Nardini with Peter Brisco whose Reading the Map of Knowledge: The Art of Being a Librarian has created a little buzz. Bob says that even Larry McMurtry has had something to say about it.	88
	Bet You Missed It Pamela Rose — What do Nvidia and Microsoft's Xbox have in common? Read about it in this issue.	89
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Webworthy Pamela Rose — Webworthy has reviewed 256 Websites to date! Websites selected for broad appeal, depth of information, and ease of access.	84
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Misfortune - Read it and eat (this is not a typo!) ...	74
	In Memory of Joseph C. Andrews	74
	Charleston Conf. - Call for papers	82