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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editors, Glenda Alvin (Tennessee State University) and Pamela Theus (William Paterson University) | |
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| | Preserving a Historic Legacy: The HBCU Library Alliance
Loretta O’Brien Parham and Janice R. Franklin, Ph.D. — Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) evolved from a segregated south with a mission to educate newly freed slaves that had been emancipated. In spite of struggles to survive, historically black colleges and universities have flourished. | 1 |
| | Accessing Historic Africana Collections at HBCU Libraries
Akilah Nosakhere — A review of digital Africana (Black) collections created by Archives and Special Collections departments at HBCU Libraries and an examination of the processes leading to the planning and funding of these digital initiatives. | 20 |
| | Using Common Vendors, Joint Approval Plans, and Shared Acquisitions Databases to Enhance Cooperative Collection Development - The Africana Collections at the Libraries of the UNC and Duke
Luke Swindler and Terry B. Hill — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke libraries recently pioneered the use of common vendors, joint approval plans, and shared acquisitions databases to expand their cooperative collection development programs for African Studies. | 26 |
| | Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning and Leadership in Special Collections
Roland Barksdale-Hall — What are the implications for HBCU Libraries and African-American collections, in particular, if administrators focus more upon information literacy and leadership development in the future? | 30 |
| | The Greatest Taboo and the HBCU
Alfred Willis — This article investigates how well the HBCU Libraries are meeting the challenge of developing collections that both reflect and support ongoing work in the field of gay and lesbian studies. | 34 |
| | The Persistence of Perception
Glenda Alvin — The best way to combat the persistence of perception that a collection has insufficient resources is to take every opportunity to emphasize its capabilities. The perception of inadequate resources was not born in a day and it will not go away quickly. | 38 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials: Forget about Sleeping
Karen Hunter — What constitutes value in the online environment and how is value related to pricing? | 40 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — What do Fat Wong’s Szechwan Chicken Restaurant and America’s research libraries have in common? | 86 |
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| | Are Comic Books A Worthy Consider-ation on Scholarly Grounds?
Chris Matz — | 78 |
| | Technical Services: Issues in the Electronic Environment
Joyce Durant — | 80 |
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| | Ron Maas, General Manager - Libraries Unlimited
Irv Rockwood — | 44 |
| | Mitchell Davis, VP Marketing - BookSurge
Robyn Dudley — | 49 |
| | Marcia Bartusiak, Science Writer
Katina Strauch — | 52 |
Edited by Allison Mays |
| | Leonard DiSanto - Southeastern Representative, H.W. Wilson Company
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| | Audrey Fenner - Head, Acquisition Department, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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| | From the Reference Desk - Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom Gilson — The Encyclopedia of Protestantism and the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications are just two of the titles reviewed this month. | 53 |
| | Book Reviews - Monographic Musings
Debbie Vaughn — This month, take a look at new titles, art highlighting crime, and vanishing vocabulary. | 56 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note - Five Speakers Over the Line & Litigation Shenanigans in the Battle to Control the Plush Toy Market
Bruce Strauch — | 58 |
| | Questions and Answers - Copyright Column
Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! | 59 |
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| | Biz of Acq - The Effect of the Consolidation of Acquisitions and Serials/Periodicals Units on the Management of Electronic Resources
Xiaoyin Zhang and Michaelyn Haslam — The authors describe and explain the transition process at the Acquisitions and Serials/Periodicals units of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. | 60 |
| | Book Are Us
Anne Robichaux — Fictitious accounts of people in our industry — librarians, publishers, vendors, booksellers, etc. — people like us. | 62 |
| | And They Were There - Reports of Meetings
In case you weren’t there, Kathryn McCarthy, Anthony Watkinson, Rebecca Lenzini, Heather Miller, Rosann Bazirjian, and Ramune Kubilius have all reported on the 2003 Charleston Conference. | 66 |
| | My Love of Books
Ann S. Doyle — Books can serve as many things, and as Ann will tell us, for her, they initially served as an escape, but also entertain, instruct, guide, and inform. Read on to see what she has taught herself from books. | 73 |
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| | Lost in Austin
Thomas W. Leonhardt — Tom reminisces about ALA Midwinter’s gone by and tells us a little about mysteries. | 63 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Google and Amazon have in common? Read about it here! | 74 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations Offices
Bob Nardini — Are airport boarding lounges a backwater of library-vendor relations? | 76 |
| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — Who is Belle Greene and what in the world could she possibly have to do with libraries? | 77 |
| | IMHBCO - (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) Why I Won’t Pay Twice For Content
Rick Anderson — This one’s about libraries and oil changes. Is the future of libraries librarians? | 78 |
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| | International Dateline - Open Access
Anthony Watkinson — Anthony says that many ATG readers may feel a growing boredom about the increasing literature on Open Access. However, Professor Peter Suber comes to the conclusion that not only has OA momentum become unstoppable, but that “the United States is conspicuously late for this party.” | 82 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. To date Webworthy has reviewed 317 Websites! Are you reading them? If so, we’d like to know what you think and if you find this column useful! | 85 |
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| | Rumo(u)rs from Paddington
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| | Charleston Conference Future Dates
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| | Adventures in Librarianship - Dear Gabby
Ned Kraft — | 75 |
| | Charleston Conf. Call for Papers
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| | Dana Alessi Tribute
Compiled by Tom Leonhardt — Those who didn’t have the pleasure of Dana’s acquaintance can read these testimonials and perhaps get some sense of why Dana will be greatly missed. | 83 |
