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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Tom Gilson | |
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| | Buy One, Get One 'e' — or Has Print Finally Become Never, No More In Reference Collections? (pdf)
Frances C. Wilkinson and Linda K. Lewis — Since 1997 this keynote column in the 1reference issue of Against the Grain has asked librarians and publishers questions about reference publishing trends. | 1 |
| | Reference Reviews: A Publisher’s Critique
Sylvia K. Miller — In the past couple of years, more and more customers have been waiting to read reviews before ordering a reference book, even one from a reputable publisher whose scholarly quality they trust. | 26 |
| | Linking Students with Collections: or Getting Ready to Meet the Accreditation Train
Robert L. Houbeck, Jr. — A lot rides on successful management of those five- and ten-year accreditation reviews. | 30 |
| | Facts Go Online: Are Print Reference Collections Still Relevant?
Dave Tyckoson — How relevant are reference collections? Dave says that he was surprised when he said "everything we need has either been published or is on the Web." | 34 |
| | Electronic Reference: The Publishers’ View
Irv Rockwood — Choice recently conducted an online survey of reference publishers in an effort to find out what is happening on the electronic reference publishing front. | 38 |
| | Food for Thought — Information Quality in Reference Publishing
Karen Christensen — This two-part article is an introduction to the process of creating reference works today. | 42 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials:Little Red Herrings: Filter-tipped Libraries
Mark Herring — Is it possible to say something positive about Internet filtering in libraries? | 62 |
Guest Editors, Michelle Flinchbaugh and Robin Moskal |
| | Expanding the ILL Role — Interlibrary Loan Contributing to Collection Development
Catherine A. Reed — The College of William & Mary ran a pilot project to selectively purchase monographs. | 44 |
| | Digital Delivery of Interlibrary Loan and Democratic Digital Collection Development at Stanford
Glen Worthey — Two successive projects funded by grants demonstrated successful solutions to two distinct sets of problems. | 48 |
| | ILL=Illuminating Lessons Learned?
Christa Easton — The creation of digital repositories will require acquisitions departments to develop new processes to meet institutional needs. | 50 |
| | Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan Together: Good Marriage or Will George W. Bush Object?
Joe Badics — This is about how Acquisitions can take over the library! | 52 |
| | Six Years of CISTI Source at the University of Calgary (pdf)
Robert Tiessen — The University of Calgary has used CISTI Source as an unmediated document delivery service since 1998. | 56 |
| | Long Island Library Resources Council Committee on Resource Sharing and Coordinated Acquisitions, Interlibrary Loan Committee
Christine Wondolowski Gerstein — Licensing and managing electronic resources, a selective introduction to information sources. | 60 |
| | Back Talk — Patriotism (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — The Patriot Act, too familiar for comfort. | 102 |
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| | Jim Stephens - Chairman of the Board, EBSCO
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| | George Machovec - Associate Director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries and Managing Editor, TCA
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Edited by Allison Mays |
| | Christa Easton, Stanford University
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| | Joe Badics, Eastern Michigan University
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| | Robert Tiessen, University of Calgary
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| | Christine Wondolowski Gerstein, Hofstra University
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom Gilson — Encyclopedia of Energy; Encyclopedia of Leadership; and Encyclopedia of Geomorphology are just a few of the titles reviewed this month. | 70 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
Debbie Vaughn — In this issue, reviewer Phillip Powell investigates A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America. | 73 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking - "A Wink is as good as a Nod:" The Law of Trade Secrets
Bryan Carson — Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property. This article is about the law of trade secrets. | 74 |
| | Cases of Note: Copyright - When An Upturned Nose Can Be Owned
Bruce Strauch — Mattel, Inc. v. Goldberger Doll Manufacturing Co. and Radio City Productions, LLC. | 77 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! | 78 |
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| | Biz of Acq: Book Vendor Evaluation from a Small Academic Library’s Perspective
Cynthia Hsieh — How do acquisitions librarians determine what vendors to use? Do they evaluate their vendors’ performance? | 80 |
| | And They Were There: Reports of Meetings
Sever Bordeianu — Sharon Moynahan and Wendy Pedersen report on the 49th Annual SALALM. | 82 |
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| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations: A Bibliotecal Heresy: Cost over Quality?
John B. Rutledge — Since John’s personal level of angoisse rises and falls with the exchange rate, he decided to gather some information about several of the most expensive presses he is dealing with. | 84 |
| | A Bibliotecal Heresy — Response from Walter de Gruyter
Dr. Anke Beck — More on the debate about the price structure of books being published. | 85 |
| | Leaving the Books Behind: Preservation Woes
Stephanie A. Kobezak — This one’s about adventures in preservation land. | 86 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Brazil and DNA have in common? Read about it here! | 88 |
| | IMHBCO: No, You May Not Come Train My Staff
Rick Anderson — It’s become a familiar ritual by now. So why does Rick almost always say no? | 90 |
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| | International Dateline
Anthony Watkinson — Have e-monographs been ignored while e-journals took center stage? | 95 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Electronic Resource Management Systems From ILS Vendors
Ellen Finnie Duranceau — This cleared up a lot of your editor’s confusion and yours too, I hope. | 91 |
| | ERMS Race
Bob Molyneux — A first look at Electronic Resource Management from the Endeavor Digital Breakfast at ALA, Orlando. | 94 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us: Extending the Life-Cycle of Optical Media
Norman Desmarais — Optical media were supposed to be virtually indestructible. So what can we do now that we know those claims were overstated? | 97 |
| | Wandering the Web: Web Resources for Beginning Educators
Darla Bressler — | 98 |
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| | Rumo(u)rs from Paddington
Daryl Rayner — | 12 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship: Haiku
Ned Kraft — Ned says the job of judging this contest was more difficult than you can imagine. | 91 |
