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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Thelma Diercks (University of Hawaii at Manoa)Guest Editor, Thelma Diercks (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | |
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| | Budgets, Budgeting, and Books
Thelma Diercks — If, as the 2004 Charleston Conference theme states, "All the World is a Serial," Against the Grain asks, "Where have all the books gone?" | 1 |
| | Why Books (still) Matter
Niko Pfund — R.R. Bowker recently estimated the number of new titles published in the United States in 2003 at 175,000, almost a 20% increase over the previous year. | 20 |
| | A Budget Picture: The University of Oregon Libraries
Nancy Slight-Gibney — Without a doubt, the hardest category of expense to predict is the cost of electronic resources. | 24 |
| | Books, Bytes and the Quintessential Library: Information Resources Budgeting at the University of Washington
Linda Di Biase — Must books give way everywhere to bytes? Linda hopes not. | 28 |
| | Monograph Musings from 53 Degrees North Latitude
Ila D. Scott and Fred Ziegler — The University of Alberta has continued to protect the monograph side of their budget. The library has not allocated monograph monies. | 34 |
| | The Future of the Book
Martha Whittaker and Daniel P. Halloran — The expansion of the definition of a book to include eBooks, digital reference, and online journals will not make the need for or the use of printed material obsolete. | 38 |
| | eBooks in China
Tony Ferguson and Angela Ko — While the growth and development of eBooks in the West lags behind that of e-journals, the situation in China is much different. | 42 |
| | Pacific Book Epistemologies
Nicholas Goetzfrid — Although the per capita library commitments of local government administrations have always been woefully low compared to U.S. mainland standards, there have been library branches established in several villages in Guam. | 52 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials: Books and the Future of Collection Development?
Steve McKinzie — This is what this issue is all about. Will books be around in the future? | 56 |
| | Back Talk — Closed to Open (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Tony says he is contemplating opposing 'openness.' With the advent of open access, open source and open archives, he thinks the word open is over used at best and really means closed to lots of things at worst. | 94 |
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| | Mike Morgan - President, Morgan & Claypool Publishers
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Edited by Allison Mays |
| | Nancy Slight-Gibney
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| | Linda Di Biase
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| | Ila Scott
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| | Anthony (Tony) Ferguson
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| | Nicholas J. Goetzfridt
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| | Rob Withers
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom GIlson — Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to the Present; Encyclopedia of American Folk Art; Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World; and Public Library Catalog are the titles Tom has reviewed this month. | 64 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
Debbie Vaughn — In this issue, think ART! Take in reviews of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Atlas of World Art, and The Twenty-First Century Art Librarian. | 66 |
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| | Legally Speaking: The World Wide Web and Intellectual Property Law: Digital Transmitting, Linking, Framing, and Other Potential Problems
Bryan Carson — The idea of linking and framing is troubling to some specialists in intellectual property. There are both copyright issues and trademark issues involved in linking and framing. In addition, there are some other concerns, such as libel, that need to be brought up. | 68 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! | 71 |
| | Cases of Note: Vicarious Copyright Liability - Grok Out
Bruce Strauch — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and every other bloated movie/ music conglomerate v. Grokster Ltd., StreamCast Networks Inc. and a quarter page list of other outfits that sell peer-to-peer software. | 72 |
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| | Biz of Acq: Ten Years After: How Positions with a Serials Emphasis have Changed a Decade after the World Wide Web
Rob Withers — Rob describes and compares advertisements of professional library positions with serials responsibilities, posted ten years apart. | 74 |
| | Books Are Us
Anne Robichaux — This column covers fictitious accounts of people in our industry— librarians, publishers, vendors, booksellers, etc. — people like us. | 78 |
| | And They Were There: Reports of Meetings
Our guest editor Thelma Diercks has reported on the Fifth Timberline Acquisitions Institute and ALCTS President’s Program at ALA Orlando. Other Mini Reports from ALA Orlando have been provided by Eleanor Cook, and Ellen McCullough, with Bob Nardini reporting on the Publisher/Vendor Library Relations Committee Meeting. | 78 |
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| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations: Way CUL
Bob Nardini — This is way cool! After more than a year of planning and development, title records from LC and other sources are now presented to selectors through a single interface. Read all about it! | 82 |
| | I User: Task-Based Strategic Planning: Changing Libraries Through Workflow Analysis
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Library managers can learn a great deal about their future by paying close attention to the work being done day-to-day in the library — and in technical services as much as in public services. | 84 |
| | Lost in Austin: Reading Publishers’ Catalogs
Thomas W. Leonhardt — Read this column on publishers’ catalogs. It will make you hungry, we promise. | 86 |
| | Leaving the Books Behind: Bookshelves
Mary Tinker Massey — This one is about real books and bookshelves. | 87 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What do Google and Wall Street have in common? Read about it in this issue! | 89 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Webworthy
Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. | 16 |
| | When Content Goes Digital
Judy Luther — What happens to content when it appears on the Web? The print works so familiar to librarians lose their context without the wrappers that indicate their function. When encyclopedias, books, and journals are all available online, they appear simply as digital content to the user. What does this mean? | 90 |
| | Desperately Seeking Copyright: Going Global: Librarians Take on International Compliance Role
Edward W. Colleran — The ease by which content can now be accessed and shared through digital means has increased the potential for copyright infringement exponentially, and colleges and universities face new compliance challenges. | 92 |
| | Drinking From the Firehose: The "Poof Effect:" The Impact of E-Journals Bought and Sold
Eleanor I. Cook — We used to think that title changes were a problem. Think again! The electronic world has changed all that. | 93 |
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| | Rumo(u)rs from Paddington
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| | Charleston Conf. Future Dates
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| | Charleston Conference: Call For Papers, Ideas, Speakers, etc.
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| | Adventures in Librarianship: Position Description
Ned Kraft — | 88 |
