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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Jill Carraway (Wake Forest University) | |
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| | Getting More From Your Electronic: Through Studies of User Behavior
by Tim Bucknall — By analyzing patron behavior and
preferences within Web-based information sources and services, libraries can adjust their electronic collections environments to better meet user needs and generate significantly more traffic. | 1 |
| | Maximizing the Value of Usage Data
by Elise Anderson — Usage statistics are an important part of the decision-making | 20 |
| | Deep Linking — Beyond Journal Articles
by Chuck Hamaker — Deep linking must become ubiquitous from catalogs, from Abstracting
and Indexing services and from other identification tools for content beyond journal articles. Its lack is a major obstacle to the full use of networked electronic content. Responses
from Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Jean Bedord, Ron Boehm, and Angela D’Agostino are included. | 22 |
| | NISO Metasearch Initiative: Targets Next Generation of Standards and Best Practices
by Cynthia Hodgson, Andrew Pace, and Jenny Walker — This is the first of a twopart article on the Metasearch Initiative of the National Information Standards Organization.
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| | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sharing E-Journals via a Consortium
by Tim Bucknall — This article examines data from the first few months of the Carolina Consortium’s existence to see if its greatly expanded journal content is proving to be both useful to patrons and affordable to libraries. | 30 |
| | Analytical Skills for Collection Development and Journal Management
by Emily Stambaugh — To effectively manage collections in a digital age, libraries could benefit from a set of analytical skills commonly found in the private-sector. | 34 |
| | Op Ed — Vestiges
by Mark Herring — Intelligent design now roils those within the scientific community. And the first ID case is going to court. | 40 |
| | Back Talk: Information Commons: The Walmartization of Libraries and Learning (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Tony takes a look at the most successful implementations of this concept. | 94 |
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| | In Indian Territory (pdf)
Gene Waddell — This article is about primary sources of information recorded by travelers who visited Indian territory rather than about the secondary accounts of anthropologists who visited reservations. | 56 |
| | How to Beat the Serials Crisis
by Helle Lauridsen — Roughly translated: Go Online if at all possible! was the mantra. | 87 |
| | A Pennsylvania Library Collaborative
by Doug Cook, Steve McKinzie, and the ACLCP 40th Anniversary Planning Committee — Celebrates its Past and Plans for its Future A Forty-Year Commitment to People, Service and Collection Development — ACLCP is an organization with both a rich history and the promise of a robust future. | 88 |
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| | Jane Burke: General Manager, Serials Solutions
by Cris — | 42 |
| | Howard Harris: General Manager, Library Dynamics (pdf)
Robyn A Dudley — | 46 |
Edited by Allison Mays |
| | David S. Moore, Schenectady County Community College
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
by Tom Gilson — Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature; and Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball are just two of the titles Tom reviews this month. | 52 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
by Debbie Vaughn — This month, consider the library “bookstore
model.” | 54 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note: Unconscionability in Attorney’s Fees and an Amazing Traipse Through Rock ‘n Roll History
Bruce Strauch — This case involves copyright litigation, but doesn’t advance your knowledge of copyright law in the least. | 60 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
by Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! If a media producer installs copy protection on a film, does that remove someone’s fair-use rights? Lolly tells us! | 64 |
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| | Biz of Acq: Bottom Feeding For Books: A Dual Strategy
David S. Moore — A multi-year study compares cost and circulation of print books purchased through various methods. | 66 |
| | Books Are Us
by Anne Robichaux — This column covers fictitious accounts of people in our industry — librarians, publishers, vendors, booksellers, etc. — people like us. | 70 |
| | Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services
by Anne Langley — Case Study One: I am not the Expert! Or, how to approach doing collection
development in a subject in which you have no expertise. A new column! | 72 |
| | And They Were There Reports of Meetings
Cris Ferguson — This issue’s report is on the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). | 74 |
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| | Drinking from the Firehose: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (pdf)
Eleanor Cook — Change has become a word that means nothing anymore, because we hear it so often. | 75 |
| | Leaving the Books Behind: A New Adventure in Serial Land!
Mary Tinker Massey — Where is Mary and What is she doing? Find out here! | 76 |
| | Little Red Herrings: A Pascal Primer
Mark Herring — More on PASCAL. Let’s hope it continues in perpetuity! | 77 |
| | Group Therapy
by Beth Bernhardt — Open Access awareness programming. | 78 |
| | Bet You Missed It
by Pamela Rose — What do the FCC and China have in common? | 79 |
| | Something to Think About?: Recycle Bin
Mary Tinker Massey — Recycle bin, Trash bin, whatever we call it, we must think seriously about the way we use it and where the information goes. | 86 |
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| | International Dateline: Open Access Gathers Pace in Europe
Peter T. Shepherd — A growing list of organizations not only tell researchers how they would like their results to be published but are also prepared to fund author charges to allow open access. This will further encourage a shift by authors towards open access publishing. | 80 |
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| | Webworthy
by Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area. Do you know about paleontological illustration? Read about it here. | 16 |
| | Technology Left Behind: The Wide World of Wikis
Cris Ferguson — Wikis have significant potential for use | 83 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’: SPARC (pdf)
Greg Tananbaum — This month’s column is an interview with Heather Joseph who follows Rick Johnson as Executive Director of The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. | 84 |
| | Wandering the Web: Subcultures on the Internet?
by Jack Montgomery — Since his college days, Jack has been fascinated with the history, presence,
persistence, and variety of subcultures in the greater American society. | 92 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship: A Difficult Birth
by Ned Kraft — In its ongoing effort to educate younger librarians about the history of their noble profession, ATG presents a short narrative of early vocational developments. | 38 |
