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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Stefanie DuBose (East Carolina University)/Guest Editor, Robert L. Houbeck, Jr. (Univ. of Michigan-Flint) | |
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| | Collection Assessment at Eastern Michigan University
Rachel Cheng and Mary Meernik — Regular sharing of usage information with our constituencies will ultimately make it much easier for the library to select resources that most benefit the teaching, learning, and research needs of the university - coming in Sept. | 0 |
| | Introduction — Balancing Act: The Nexus of Acquisitions and Collection Development
Stefanie DuBose — Acquisitions and Collection Development. When there’s not enough training or communication, the temptation arises for each group to retreat to bunkers in an “us vs. them” relationship. | 1 |
| | A Portrait of the Intern: As a...umm...Youngish Man; or, My Semester in Acquisitions and Collection Development
Ben Beutler — As a recent graduate of the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, Ben has much to report. | 18 |
| | The Use of Digital Technologies: In the Selection and Purchasing of Library Materials among Special, Academic, and Public Libraries
Barbara Blummer — Within the last decade technological changes have affected the operation of libraries, especially technical services. | 22 |
| | The Story of the Stool and the Legs; or, Collection Management in the Forth Worth Public Library System
Deborah Duke — The imaginary line between cataloging and acquisitions and collection development is a technical services world view which has come to an end. | 28 |
| | Exploring Collection Development: For Library Technical Assistants
JoAnn Hrabak — For 38 years, the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL has trained a large number of library technical assistants through their Library Technology Program. | 32 |
| | Making the Invisible Visible:What Collection Development Needs to Know about Acquisitions
Linda K. Lewis and Nancy Pistorius — Collection development needs to learn more about acquisitions, and acquisitions needs to share information about its procedures. | 34 |
| | Training New Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical and Philosophical Guideposts
Antje Mays — Acquisitions and collection development are the hub where education, curriculum analysis, needs assessment, business, and technology come together, combining the business and intellectual worlds | 38 |
| | Positioning Acquisitions in the Library Organization: Issues, Questions, Decisions
Aline Soules — Technology has created and will continue to create change in all areas of the library and especially in acquisitions. | 42 |
| | Consistent, Memorable, In Sync: Making the Budget case to Busy Administrators
Robert L. Houbeck, Jr. — How to be heard without raising one’s voice. or stamping feet or thumping shoe-on-table: that’s the challenge every library director confronts during the campus budget cycle. | 48 |
| | The Conspectus:Time for a Comeback?
Paul Streby — Comparing collections is indispensable, but without some basic numerical guidelines, you risk making subjective judgments based on cherry-picked data or methods of interpretation. | 54 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials: Adding Value to Bulk Licensing
Rollo Turner — Over the last few years many publishers have exhibited a strong preference for selling their bulk licences directly to the library. | 72 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
Debbie Vaughn — The books reviewed in this month’s Monographic Musings illustrate the broad spectrum of sources available and skills required to offer quality Readers’ Advisory Service. | 76 |
| | Back Talk: It’s the Web, Stupid (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Today’s student is just a few keystrokes away from millions of pages of information freely available on the Web. | 94 |
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| | Norman Desmarais
Donna Capelle Cook — Author, Battleground of Freedom: A Historical Guide to the Battlefields of the War of American Independence | 66 |
| | Copyright Clearance Center & Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Rosemary L. Meszaros — | 70 |
Edited by Allison Mays |
| | Paul Streby, University of Michigan-Flint
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| | Tim Daniels, Georgia State University Library
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| | William Walsh, Georgia State University Library
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom Gilson — Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and Sage’s Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement are just two of the titles Tom reviews this month. | 74 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note: Copyright in Derivative Works
Bruce Strauch — Karaoke Bandits and the Nightmare World of Sing-along; and Copyright: Licensing by Co-Owners. | 80 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! Can a music teacher adapt and simplify a piece so that a student can peform it in the classroom? | 81 |
| | Legally Speaking: How to File a Freedom of Information Act Request
Bryan M. Carson — Some may question why librarians need to know about the Freedom of Information Act. | 82 |
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| | And They Were There
Watch for the final reports from the 2004 Charleston Conference coming in Sept. | 0 |
| | America Life in the 19th Century: (pdf)
Gene Waddell — Unabridged Travel Accounts by Audubon, Olmsted, and Twain | 77 |
| | Biz of Acq: Issues in Scholarly Communication: Creating Your Own Blog
William Walsh and Tim Daniels — A locally-created blog can be targeted to a specific readership and can provide current and relevant information to a library’s community. | 85 |
| | Books Are Us
Anne Robichaux — Have you read The Librarian by Larry Beinhart? Says the back cover: “How did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up hunted by Homeland Security and on Virginia’s ten most wanted list for bestiality?” - coming in Sept. | 88 |
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| | Bet You Missed It
Pamela Rose — What does Wikipedia and Netscape have in common? Read about it in this issue. | 16 |
| | Group Therapy
Beth Bernhardt — Is Open Access Training for Faculty a Good Thing? | 78 |
| | I User: Au Contraire, Robert!
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — In the April issue of ATG (p.40), Robert Behra lobbed his “heated response” onto the fire Rick and Ruth set in the December/January column entitled “Just Say No: Eliminating Low-Value Tasks.” Here is their reprise. | 90 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations: Google
Bob Nardini — Some history about the origins of the search engine Google. Bob says that the truly remarkable thing is that when capitalists finally took note of libraries, what they noticed wasn’t their hi-tech apparatus, but their books, printed books. | 91 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Electronic Resource Management Systems Part II: Offerings from Serial Vendors and Serial Data Vendors
Ellen Duranceau — In the Sept. 2004 issue, Ellen reported on the ERM offerings of the major ILS vendors, and promised to follow with a second article covering the ERM tools offered by other kinds of companies, primarily serials vendors or serial data vendors. Here is Part II. | 59 |
| | Technology Left Behind: Where Have All the Catalogers Gone?
Cris Ferguson — Libraries of all shapes and sizes are creating new positions with varying degrees of emphasis on metadata duties. | 92 |
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| | Charleston Conference 2005
Call for Papers, Ideas, Speakers, etc. — Plus details for this year’s Rachel Schenk Scholarship - see insert. | 0 |
| | ATG Fiction Contest
Deadline for entries is August 15th - see insert | 0 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship: Vandalism
Ned Kraft — ATG investigative reporters have it from an anonymous source that Cented was discovered to have instigated several library pranks. | 58 |
