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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 Narda Tafuri (University of Scranton) | |
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| | The New Out-of-Print Marketplace
Narda Tafuri — The business of out-of-print books has shifted from its years old traditions of want lists and postcards to its present dot.com model. | 1 |
| | A Good Book is Not that Hard to Find:
Narda Tafuri — The new out-of-print marketplace certainly has a lot more to offer librarians than was available in the past. | 18 |
| | Confessions of an Out-of-Print Bookseller
Peter Tafuri — A fascinating journey through the world of the online bookseller | 23 |
| | Libraries and the Online Book World:
Richard M. Weatherford — Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going? | 27 |
| | Old Wine in New Bottles:
John Riley — Free eBooks on the Internet and Print on Demand, the New Face of Out of Print Books | 32 |
| | Out of the Box and Into the Bookstore:
David Gray and Malcolm H. Brantz — Non-Traditional Use of the Bookstore | 36 |
| | Searching for the Seldom Seen:
Gary P. Handman — Sources and Strategies for Acquiring Out-of-Distribution Videos | 43 |
| | Op Ed, Opinions and Editorials
Rick Anderson — IMHBCO (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) The Library Collection and Other Moribund Concepts | 47 |
| | BackTalk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Does Your Library Disaster Preparedness Plan Have a Section on Epidemics? | 110 |
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| | Deanna Ramsay
Narda Tafuri — Bookseller | 48 |
| | Joe Lee
Allison Mays — Manager, Dogwood Press | 50 |
| | Vladimir Zaitsev
Fred Lynden, translated by Irina Lynden — Director of the National Library of Russia | 52 |
| | Ernie Ingles (pdf)
David Swords — 2001 Canadian Librarian of the Year | 56 |
| | Roger Press (pdf)
Katina Strauch — Executive Vice President, Content and Business Development, Classical.com | 62 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Narda Tafuri
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| | Peter Tafuri
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| | Dick Weatherford
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| | David Gray
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| | Malcolm Brantz
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| | Michelle Flinchbaugh
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| | Library Profile
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - Encyclopedia of New Media; and The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science are just two of the titles reviewed this month. | 64 |
| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings | 67 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan M. Carson — Consideration and the Statute of Frauds: Necessary Elements in the Formation and Enforcement of Contracts | 72 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Copyright - Captain America Battles For ¤ 304 (c) and the American Way Of Aiding Battered Authors | 76 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column | 77 |
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| | Books Are Us
Anne Robichaux — This column covers fictitious accounts of people in our industry | 70 |
| | Biz of Acq
Audrey Fenner and April Wreath — EDI in DRA and SIRSI: Current Status of Electronic Data Interchange in Both DRA and SIRSI, and Areas for Future Enhancements | 78 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings 2003 Transborder Library Forum and the 12th North Carolina Serials Conference | 86 |
| | Bestsellers
Franqoise Crowell — Physics and Chemistry | 90 |
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| | Lost in Austin
Thomas W. Leonhardt — Antiquarian Booksellers | 92 |
| | Inside Pandora's Box
Bob Rooney and Brian Elliott — Thoughts Coming Out of the ALCTS Out-of-Print Discussion Group at ALA-MidWinter | 93 |
| | Talk of the Trade
Barry Fast — Barry has more Book Trade gossip for us in this regular ATG column. | 94 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations - Decisions, Decisions (pdf)
Bob Nardini — | 96 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Walkman's and DVDs have in common? Read about it in this issue. | 98 |
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| | International Dateline
Anthony Watkinson — German Copyright Developments Worry Publishers | 99 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Group Therapy
Rosann Bazirjian — In this issue our anonymous Gripe asks "Do you have any suggestions for the best way to turn down a gift collection of books, especially when the donor may have the potential to make a significant cash donation to the institution?" | 71 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Norman Desmarais — This issue includes two papers. The first is XHTML Facilitates the Transition from HTML to XML. XML is a subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language. And the second is For SFX See Librarian SFX is not a search engine; so it does not search databases or the Internet. Rather, it facilitates linking from a cited item to services or information relevant to that item. | 100 |
| | Desperately Seeking Copyright
Edward Colleran — Digital Rights Management: It's Not Just About Security Anymore | 103 |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. | 108 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — Reality | 71 |
| | Call for Papers
Charleston Conference 2003 | 104 |
