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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 1 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Special Collectors — Guest Editor, Kirstin Steele (The Citadel) | |
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| | Collecting Books and Other Artifacts
by Kirstin Steele — For this issue Kirstin
has focused on two questions: why individuals collect what they do, and why/if it is important to individuals to find their collections a perpetual home. | 1 |
| | Civil War Books: The Only Books Worth Reading
by Dewey Stinson, Jr. — With two great-great grandfathers who fought in the War, Dewey has decided to limit his collection of books to those about the Civil War. | 20 |
| | Heisser Collection of Government Symbols
by Dr. David Heisser — In 1954, a pack of
baseball cards was traded for a copy of a
1946 National Geographic Magazine, and a
hobby was born. | 20 |
| | Secrets of the Brain Coil
by Dr. Debbra Ford — Every librarian
knows that there have been a zillion print
editions of the Nancy Drew Series. This article is about Debbra’s first love, and first collection. | 22 |
| | Robert E. Lee Memorabilia
by Alfred Warren Page Hauser — Robert
E. Lee was, and still is, his hero. Lee was a
good Christian man, a fine example for a
youth to emulate. | 22 |
| | Tractors are the Artifacts for Me
by Alfred Warren Page Hauser — What began as a collection “out of necessity” has brought the male members of his family closer together. | 24 |
| | Wild Rocks — Pretties and Leave-its
by Marilynn Ford — Looking at them, she can see the places she has visited and have pleasant recollections of long-ago excursions but still, they weren’t the monetary investment that her
book collection was. | 24 |
| | Costumed Rabbits in China
by Janis F. Hauser — Janis says her collections are important only to her, and that everything she collects serves as a memory, a bridge between generations. | 26 |
| | Op Ed: Little Red Herrings — Libraries-As-Sex: The New Paradigm?
Mark Herring — “Libraries are a lot like sex” and “sex sells literally everything | 28 |
| | ATG Special Report: ILL Purchase Express
by Barbara M. Coopey and Ann M. Snowman — Penn State’s pilot project to convert interlibrary loans to rush order acquisition via the approval plan is discussed here. | 46 |
| | Back Talk: Is Our Sacred Cow Icon Status In Danger? (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Are we fiddling while | 86 |
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| | Matthew J. Bruccoli: Publisher, Scholar, Bibliographer, Biographer
by Katina Strauch | 30 |
| | Library Marketplace Interview: Self Publish or Perish: How one Author Moved from Self Publishing to the Mainstream
by John Riley — An Interview with
Gregory Desilet author of Our Faith in Evil
and Cult of the Kill: Traditional Metaphysics
of Rhetoric, Truth, and Violence in a
Postmodern World? | 31 |
| | F. Dixon Brooke, Jr.: President and CEO, EBSCO Industries, Inc.
by Katina Strauch | 72 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Maria S. Kuhn (Bloomsburg University)
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| | From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles
by Tom Gilson — ABC-CLIO’s Celtic Culture a Historical Encyclopedia; Greenwood’s new reference work Sex from Plato to Paglia: a Philosophical Encyclopedia; Routledge’s Chronology of
the Cold War 1917-1992; Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea; and A to Zoo Subject access to Children’s Picture Books are just a few of the titles Tom reviews this issue. | 36 |
| | Book Reviews: Monographic Musings
by Debbie Vaughn — This month, veteran reviewer Phillip Powell visits Revolutionary War battlegrounds. And just as we were going to press, Phillip came through with more on building bridges! | 38 |
| | Books That Matter
by Ellen Finnie Duranceau — A Review of
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become, by Peter Morville. Have you ever borrowed a book, read it and then bought it? Well, that’s what happened to Ellen. | 40 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note: Blundering Into Contracts Without A Writing — Beyond the Statute of Frauds
by Bruce Strauch — So, who says there’s no money in Christian themed computer-animated cartoons? Just ask these two litigants. | 44 |
| | Questions and Answers: Copyright Column
by Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! What’s the rule on copying sheet music for school use? | 45 |
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| | Biz of Acq: How to Select a Vendor for an Approval Plan: Through Friendship, Personality or an RFP?
by Maria Silva Kuhn — Using an RFP and
obtaining references from other libraries are important parts of the selection process. | 50 |
| | Books Are Us
by Anne Robichaux — Librarian of Basra,
a True Story from Iraq, is the story of a courageous chief librarian. | 52 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings — The 2005 Charleston Conference was fabulous. If you missed it, we’ve got you covered. Many thanks to Ramune Kubilius and all her ATG reporters who attended the conference and submitted reports. Here you will also find dates for future Charleston Conferences through the
year 2010. Wow! | 53 |
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| | Issues in Vendor Library Relations: Numbers
by Bob Nardini — Are cold hard numbers the perfect way to evaluate the old
year. Hmmm ... | 75 |
| | Bet You Missed It
by Pamela Rose — What do O. J. Simpson
and Danielle Steele have in common? Read
about it here. | 76 |
| | Occasional Rambles in the World of the Book
Books as Entertainment by Richard Abel —
“A good read” is a virtue equivalent to a pleasant Spring evening or a languid turn in the pool. | 77 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Innovations Affecting Us: Podcasting, Coursecasting, and the Library
Kristen DeVoe — Podcasts and podcasting have become so popular that podcast was named the 2005 word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. | 78 |
| | NISO Metasearch Initiative Targets Next Generation Standards and Best Practices
by Cynthia Hodgson — Do you know what
issues prompted the metasearch initiative?
Read on. | 79 |
| | Technology Left Behind: What in the WorldCat is OCLC up to?
by Cris Ferguson — Since making Open
WorldCat a permanent program at the end of 2004, OCLC has continued to develop and to enhance the functionality of the program. | 82 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
by Greg Tananbaum — At the 2005 Charleston Conference, Greg moderated a session which examined a number of emerging models that rethink traditional divisions between “free” and “subscription” materials. | 84 |
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| | Remembering Papa Lyman
Mike Markwith — | 8 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship: Encyclopedia Redux
by Ned Kraft — For those who heard that specialized encyclopedias were dropping out of the market, we beg to differ | 26 |
| | ATG Fiction Contest
Here’s your chance to get into print and reach thousands of readers starved for fiction. | 43 |
