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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | This issue Guest Edited by Ed Colleran(Copyright Clearance Center) | |
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| | Surviving the Era of Digital Media
Edward Colleran — The Internet and computerization have revolutionized the way information is retrieved, collected and shared, fundamentally altering the ways these tasks are carried out and raising a host of new questions and problems. | 1 |
| | Through a “Content Looking Glass”
Corilee Christou and Gail Dykstra — This article offers some tips for ways to take advantage of this new flexibility and the the sense of emerging library-vendor partnerships to get what your users need from the licensing process. | 18 |
| | Digital Rights Management: Old Hat or New Wrinkle?
John Cox — The Internet has totally altered the environment in which librarians and publishers strive to disseminate information, creating tensions and uncertainty as people of good faith on all sides wrestle with new questions without clear-cut answers. | 22 |
| | Nighttime Musings of a Sleepless Librarian
Ann Okerson — Does the term “digital library” mean that all of our collections will someday be digital? | 28 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials
Ian Jacobs and David Bull — e-Journals, Embargoes and Other Matters: Are the Publishers Villains or not? | 30 |
| | ATG Special Report: Part II
Mark Herring — Libraries In The Cyberage — Filtering, Censorship and the First Ammendment: Libraries at the Crossroads | 32 |
| | BackTalk— GIS Induced Guilt (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Anthony just returned from the 2002 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) meeting held in Osaka Japan. The result of his attendance has him now trying to figure out what he wants to do about GIS. | 94 |
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| | Karen Hunter
Senior Vice President, Elsevier | 61 |
| | Jenny Walker & Oren Beit-Arie
Information Services Division, Ex Libris | 67 |
| | Ted Fons & Laurie Davidson
WebBridge, Innovative Interfaces | 70 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Publisher Profile
John Long — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 80 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — This month Tom tells us that print indexes still have a place in academic research, which may be refreshing news for some and a shock to others. | 72 |
| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings — Learn how to teach computer skills to practically anyone. | 75 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan Carson — Do We Still need Books for Legal Research? (Why books still matter.) | 76 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column — A librarian has been asked to present a paper at a conference. The association that sponsors the conference has asked her to bring 25 copies of the paper to sell. What copyright symbol should be placed on the copies? This is just one of the questions Lolly answers for us this month. | 78 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Trademark Dilution by Bruce Strauch — Beanie Battles. | 78 |
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| | And They Were There
Nina Stephenson — Reports of Meetings — ARLIS/NA 29th Annual Conference | 81 |
| | Books Are Us
Anne Robichaux — This column covers fiction about people like us — librarians, publishers, vendors, booksellers, etc. All contributions are welcome. | 82 |
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| | IMHBCO
Rick Anderson — (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) The Book Is Dead and It’s a Good Thing, Too | 60 |
| | Book Pricing Update
Tom Loughran — Trends in Book Pricing for the year ending June 30, 2002 | 82 |
| | 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. | 83 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do NASA and the National Science Foundation have in common? Read about it in this issue. | 84 |
| | Texas Trails
Thomas Leonhardt — Lost in Austin | 92 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Devil’s Advocate
Bob Molyneux — Variations on a Theme: NISO Z39.7, Library Statistics Standard | 85 |
| | Desperately Seeking Copyright
Edward Colleran — Digital Object Identifiers: Just an Idea or an Innovation of Value? | 89 |
| | Drinking From the Firehose
Eleanor I. Cook — SPAM SPAM SPAM: and MORE SPAM!!! What are we to do? | 91 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — First Draft — Please edit before sending this to the dean! | 90 |
