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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Ed Colleran (Copyright Clearance Center) | |
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| | Exploring the Digital Terrain, Together
Ed Colleran — An introduction to the copyright topics that are addressed in this Charleston Conference issue of ATG. Many of these topics arise from the digital technology that has transformed the way we access information. | 1 |
| | Copyright Issues & Principles in the Digital Environment
Eric S. Slater — This article is about copyright issues in the burgeoning digital environment. Fundamentally, the rule is that the basic principles of copyright law apply, no matter the content format — print, electronic or whatever may come in the future, but what does this really mean? | 18 |
| | DRM and Research Libraries: Common Ground?
Bill Rosenblatt — DRM’s influence on the publishing industry is profound, although it has yet to infiltrate the research library world to any great degree. In this article, Bill examines how DRM is gaining traction in publishing as well as looking at ways that it could bring value to the world of research libraries. | 22 |
| | Ameliorating the Effects of Term Extension
Laura N. Gasaway — In Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Court upheld Congressional authority to determine the “limited times” for which copyright may be available as provided in the U.S. Constitution and thus upheld the change in copyright duration from life plus fifty to life plus seventy. | 26 |
| | TEACHing Online: An Update on the TEACH Act
Bryan Carson — Copyright law is one area where technology allows us to do things that are not permitted. The TEACH Act is an attempt to catch up. | 34 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials: Leveling the Playing Field: Making Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Accessible
Reid Lifset — This is about the Impact Factor and how it affects research and teaching. | 38 |
| | Back Talk - The Library Hotel: Sweet Revenge (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — The Library Hotel and the negativity surrounding the lawsuit by OCLC which claimed the Hotel infringed its trademark for the Dewey Decimal System name is Tony’s subject. | 102 |
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| | Andrejs Alferovs
Jack Montgomery — Vice, President, Sales and Marketing Coutts Library Services | 40 |
| | Victor Navasky
Betty Oktay — Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation | 46 |
| | Michael Cooper
Jack Montgomery — President and Founder of BUSCA, Inc. | 54 |
Edited by Allison Mays |
| | People Profiles
JoAnne Kelley, Thomas Gallina, and John McDonald. — | 56 |
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom Gilson — Dictionary of Buddhism; Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women; Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy; and Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era are just some of the titles reviewed in this issue. | 60 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
Debbie Vaughn — Q: What do you get when you add together two Cambridge companions to different music genres, two books of quotations, and a modern office reference? A: This month’s Monographic Musings column. | 64 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Copyright VARA: In Which A Distraught Banner Artists Learns She’s Not An Artist After All and Copyright Frivolous Appeals: In Which Rock Legend Joe Jones Learns that You Can Indeed Talk Too Much | 68 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
Laura Gasaway — More and more often the library is being asked to reproduce a whole journal for document delivery. Is there any reason not to do this? This is just one of the questions Lolly answers for us in this issue. | 72 |
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| | Biz of Acq: Using Technology to Increase Collaboration between the Library, Teaching Faculty and the Campus At Large
Antje Mays — A unique comprehensive overview of how technologies can be used to make acquisitions not just a book purchasing department, but a department that works proactively to impress consituents, helping to make the library a central and prestigious part of the campus community. | 74 |
| | And They Were There: Reports of Meetings
Linda Lewis — North American Serials Interest Group, met in Portland, Oregon in June, 2003. The host university was Portland State University. | 78 |
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| | Book Pricing Update
Tom Loughran — Trends in Book Pricing by Subject Area - June 30, 2003. | 82 |
| | Talk of the Trade
Barry Fast — More Book Trade gossip from Barry in this regular ATG column. | 82 |
| | IMHBCO: OCLC, Trademarks, and The Library Hotel
Rick Anderson — How could a company claim to own Dewey? What was OCLC thinking? | 84 |
| | I User: The eBook Prospectus: 2004
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — What should you know about eBooks before you invest in them? | 86 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations: Promises, Promises (pdf)
Bob Nardini — The classic library gripe about vendors is that they overpromise | 89 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Nickelodeon and J. C. Penny have in common. Read about it here! | 90 |
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| | International Dateline
Anthony Watkinson — A report from Oxford 2003 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series. | 92 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Group Therapy
Rosann Bazirjian — What to do with those “sample” journals. | 58 |
| | Drinking From the Firehose: Two Subjects Bugging Me Lately: Cell Phones and the Degradation of Email Service
Eleanor I. Cook — By way of introduction, these two topics are not necessarily related, but they could be. | 94 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us: Hyperbolic Browsers: From GUI to KUI
Norman Desmarais — The World Wide Web has often been described as a library where all the books have been thrown on the floor. | 95 |
| | Desperately Seeking Copyright: Copyright on Campus: Librarians Remain at the Head of the Class
Edward W. Colleran — Librarians are faced with the realities of a digital environment age in which the benefit of easier access to information has further complicated the already sensitive issue of copyright compliance. | 98 |
| | CHAOS: Standards Column
Pat Harris — We welcome Pat who has agreed to take over the reins from Sandy Paul as the “Voice of Standards” for ATG. | 99 |
| | Wandering the Web: An Analytical, Subject-based Web Bibliography
Roxanne Myers Spencer — In conjunction with her presentation to the Charleston Conference, Ms. Spencer decided to begin researching online science fiction and fantasy Websites. | 100 |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. | 101 |
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| | Rumo(u)rs from Paddington
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| | Charleston Conference Future Dates
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| | Adventures in Librarianship: On the Couch
Ned Kraft — | 66 |
| | Charleston Brain-teaser
Daryl Rayner — | 72 |
