AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.17 # 1 February 2005 © Katina Strauch

Annual Report Issue — eBooks: State of the Art

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman University)
	eBooks: State of the Art Cris Ferguson — An introduction to this issue of Against the Grain	1
	Twenty Issues in eBook Creation by Alan Dawson and Jake Wallis — This article summarizes numerous issues that arise when creating eBooks and publishing them in open-access XHTML format on the Web, and describes policies that can help resolve these issues.	18
	Selecting and Acquiring eBooks:So Many Choices, So Many Processes by Heather Wicht — This article will present a brief overview of the purchase models offered by popular academic library eBook vendors. As well, appropriate collection development and acquisitions processes for the various purchase models will be discussed.	26
	Success Model for eBooks by Toby Green and Matt Brosius — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an international organization that publishes 150-200 books each year on economics and public policy in English and in French. This is a case study of their model.	30
	eBooks in the Health Sciences:Trends and Challenges by Ramune Kubilius — This article describes a current health sciences electronic book scene that may resemble experiences in other types of libraries.	36
	Riding the eBook Wave by Jill E. Grogg and Beth Ashmore — The authors contacted a sample of eBook insiders — publishers, distributors, software and hardware providers, and others — and asked them questions about the state of affairs for eBooks.	41
	eBooks and E-content: A Panel Discussion at Charleston by Ellen McCullough — In delivering electronic content, eBooks have come a long way, but there is more work to be done.	50
	eBooks at Western Michigan University: A Case Study by Randle Gedeon and Bettina Meyer — The University Libraries of Western Michigan University make available to students, faculty, and staff over 150,000 electronic books, contained in a variety of eBook collections.	52
	Textbooks as eBooks A Case Study from the University Library of Stockholm, Sweden by Wilhelm Widmark — During 2002-2003 the University Library of Stockholm (SUB) and eLib started a joint project in order to provide students at the University with textbooks in electronic form.	55
	I Have Seen the Future and It “Doesn’t Quite” Work by Brian F. Clark and Dr. William Thompson — If we continue to attempt to electrify the printed book, will readers revolt, or are they ready to accept this half-book, half-beast we call an eBook?	57
	Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials Troubling Choices: Full-text Access and the Old Hard Copy Back Runs by Steve McKinzie — — Once you’ve acquired electronic coverage of a journal title, what does your collection development policy tell you to do with your old bound periodical titles? Steve says we should keep them all.	60
	Transaction Log Analyses of Electronic Book (eBook) Usage by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Clifton Snyder — Possible methodology for identifying the eBooks that users are accessing and how they are accessing them is transaction log analysis, which can be integrated with other data collection methodologies.	85
	Back Talk - Quick Visit to Libraries in Singapore (pdf) Tony Ferguson — An invitation to speak about eBooks before the Library Association of Singapore, prompts Tony to ask library leaders “what are the three major challenges facing your library?”	94
	Dave Williams Managing Director, Bernan	61
	Bob Schatz Director of New Business Development for the U.S., Coutts Library Services	62
	Aileen McHugh Director of Electronic Publishing, The Johns Hopkins University Press	63
	Philip Blackwell CEO, Blackwell Limited	65
Edited by Allison Mays
	Alan Dawson	20
	Jake Wallis	22
	Heather Wicht	28
	Toby Green	32
	Matt Brosius	34
	Ramune Kubilius	38
	Jill Grogg	42
	Beth Ashmore	45
	Ellen McCullough	51
	Randle Gedeon	53
	Bettina Meyer	54
	Wilhelm Widmark	56
	Brian Clark	58
	William Thompson	59
	Betty Kelly	60
	Julie Carter	66
	Cris Ferguson	68
	Alberta Davis Comer	76
	Lynn Silipigni Connaway	86
	Cliffton Snyder	88
	From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Atlas of the Civil War; Historical Gazetteer of the United States; The Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; and Value of the Dollar 1860-2004 are just some of the titles reviewed in this issue.	67
	Book Reviews: Monographic Musings by Debbie Vaughn — Guest reviewers offer their thoughts on Orthodoxy in Charleston: Brith Sholom Beth Israel & American Jewish History and The Branch Librarians’ Handbook, and ATG regular Tom Gilson takes a turn in the reviewed chair.	70
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note: Extreme Kayaking Your Way Thru Copyright Bruce Strauch — Polar Bear Productions, Inc. v. Timex Corporation.	72
	Questions and Answers: Copyright Column by Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore!	74
	Books Are Us by Anne Robichaux — This column covers fictitious accounts of people in our industry— librarians, publishers, vendors, booksellers, etc.	74
	Biz of Acq: Is Purchase-on-demand a Worthy Model? by Alberta Comer and Elizabeth A. Lorenzen — Read about how librarians at Cunningham Memorial Library, planned and carried out a year-long purchase-on-demand pilot project.	75
	And They Were There: Reports of Meetings by Sever Bordeianu — Rebecca Kemp reports on the 13th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference and, along with Alicia Wyatt, also provides a report on the 19th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference. Plus we also have more reports from the 2004 Charleston Conference.	79
	Little Red Herrings: Part Three — Free Speech and Filtering Myths Mark Herring — Don’t miss this third part in Mark’s series on filtering the Internet.	90
	Leaving the Books Behind: The Alter Ego Mary Tinker Massey — A small digression.	91
	Issues in Vendor/Library Relations: The Book & the Scholar: Celebrating the Year of the University Press by Linda Behrend — "The Book & the Scholar” held in John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee Knoxville was designed to emphasize the relevance of the university press to the academic community and to focus attention on its importance in faculty publishing and scholarly communication.	92
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	CHAOS — eBooks: Where Have All the Standards Gone? by Karen Coyle — Karen has been monitoring the eBook scene for years and has chaired the ALA Office of Information Technology Policy eBook task force. Karen concludes that there is much to be done to stabilize the eBook of the future.	84
	Adventures in Librarianship: Our Mystifying Patrons by Ned Kraft — Have you read the local bulletin board lately?	66
	ATG Fiction Contest	69
	2005 Charleston Conference Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Speakers, etc.	78