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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Electronic Resources Rocked My World! What’s Changed and How We Manage
Mary Page — Ordered, logical processes | 1 |
| | Against the Grain Classifieds
Advertise your job listings, items for sale, or
items wanted here. We thank you for your
contributions. | 12 |
| | But I Checked the Ejournal List
by Abigail Bordeaux — A view from Public
Services. Patrons don’t want to go back to print but they do want a simplified workflow for something that they need. | 20 |
| | Friend or Foe? — Digital Resources Within Library Collections
by Julian Everett Allgood — A view from Cataloging. The print-to-electronic dynamic has come full circle during te last ten years. What has happened and what will happen in the next ten years? | 24 |
| | Managing Digital Resources, or, How Do You Hold Electrons In Your Hand?
by Anna L. Creech — From an electronic resources librarian. Long before computers and the advent of the Internet, serials librarians managed their collections regardless of the form they came in. | 30 |
| | Serials Cataloging in the Digital Environment: Fast, Faster, Fastest
by Mary Grenci — Staffing issues from a serials cataloger. How extensive are the changes to cataloging processes caused by the digital format? | 34 |
| | Meeting the Challenges of Change
by Adam Chesler — A publisher’s perspective. Change is hard and confusing and can cause discomfort. Rather than panic, we need to look at the long-term benefits that are attainable. | 40 |
| | ATG Annual Survey Report
Executive Summary by Leah Hinds —
Against the Grain’s Annual Survey is designed to provide readers with library information that is unavailable anywhere else. The survey is an opportunity for readers to give opinions and statistics concerning libraries and librarians around the world. | 45 |
| | Op Ed — Free Is Good
by Stephen Rhind-Tutt — The Web has introduced enough free information that it caused Stephen to rethink his pricing strategies. | 48 |
| | Back Talk: Institutional Repositories: Wars and Dream Fields to Which Too Few Are Coming
by Tony Ferguson — Thinking about | 86 |
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| | Victoria Reich
Director, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries by Cris Ferguson | 50 |
| | Eileen Fenton
Executive Director, Portico by Cris Ferguson | 54 |
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| | Mary Page
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| | Abigail Bordeaux
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| | Julian Everett Allgood
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| | Anna L. Creech, MLS
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| | Adam Chesler
| 42 |
| | Lynda Fuller Clendenning
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| | From the Reference Desk
Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature; All Things Austen: an Encyclopedia of Austen’s World; Encyclopedia of Anthropology;
Immigration and Asylum: from 1900 to
the Present; Nations of the World: A Political, Economic & Business Handbook; and Encyclopedia of the Developing World are the titles Tom reviews this month. | 57 |
| | Book Reviews
Monographic Musings by Debbie Vaughn —
This month, explore public radio. | 59 |
| | Books That Matter
Zen and the Art of ERM by Ellen Finnie
Duranceau — Ellen points to the many information professionals who are looking for peace of mind, focus, clarity, and a sense of cohesion in their work that they have found elusive. Boy, isn’t that the truth! | 60 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
The Attrezzi of Trademark Violations —
Reverse Confusion by Bruce Strauch | 63 |
| | Questions and Answers
Copyright Column by Laura Gasaway —
Questions and Answers galore! | 64 |
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| | Books Are Us
by Anne Robichaux — In Alice Hoffman’s
sixteenth novel, The Ice Queen, the narrator is a nameless librarian, and the tale is “a magical story of passion, loss and renewal.” | 65 |
| | Biz of Acq
Mainstreaming “E”: Integrating Print and
Electronic Journal Acquisition and Management by Lynda Clendenning — At Indiana University Libraries, Lynda integrated management of electronic and print journals in one Serials Acquisitions unit. | 66 |
| | From the University Presses
Copyright R&R by Peter Givler — Are librarians and publishers doomed to be perpetually at odds with each other about the meaning and significance of copyright? | 69 |
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| | Drinking From the Firehose (pdf)
Eleanor Cook — It’s Never Too Late: 10 New Year’s Resolutions to Suggest to Publishers of E-journals by Eleanor I. Cook — Eleanor says that she was too busy linking up e-journals to get her resolutions in the February issue of ATG, but it’s never too late to make suggestions for improvement. Publishers, listen up! | 70 |
| | Something To Think About
Mary Tinker Massey — Where Are the Shelves? | 72 |
| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — What Do Academic Library Deans Do? by | 73 |
| | Book Pricing Update
Book Price Inflation Highest in Years by
Tom Loughran — That’s the bad news. The
good news is that most high inflation years
have been followed by years with relatively
modest increases. | 73 |
| | Case Studies in Collections and Technical Services
Case Study Three: The Ticking Clock of
Tenure: The Case of the First Article by Anne Langley — What to write about? How to start? | 75 |
| | Lost in Austin
102 Books by Thomas W. Leonhardt — Tom read 102 books last year. Here are some of his comments. | 76 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
100 Chefs by Bob Nardini — Did you know
that Google has 100 chefs? | 78 |
| | Bet You Missed It
by Pamela Rose — What do alligator and sushi have in common? Read about it here. | 78 |
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| | International Dateline
The Importance of Metadata and Interoperability by Dr. Peter T.Shepherd — The rapid advance of electronic publishing has created a growing need for an expanding range of reliable metadata to support the publishing and management of information resources. | 80 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Standards
Libraries, Data Providers, and SUSHI: the
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative by Adam Chandler and Tim Jewell
— Keeping up with usage data is a major
problem. Enter SUSHI ... | 82 |
| | IMHBCO (pdf)
Rick Anderson — In My Humble But Correct Opinion — Thinking About the Value of Staff Time by Rick Anderson — It’s all well and good to say that staff time is scarce and valuable, but how do we determine what an hour of staff time is actually worth? | 83 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
LOCKSS and Portico by Greg Tananbaum
— We have interviews with Vicky Reich and
Eileen Fenton in this issue. This column
complements those interviews. | 84 |
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| | Remembering Papa Lyman
Karen Schmidt — | 8 |
| | 2006 Charleston Conference
Call For Papers, Ideas, Panels, Debates, Diatribes, Speakers, Poster Sessions,
Preconferences, etc. ... | 8 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship
Glossary of Terms by Ned Kraft — What I
want to know is how does Ned dream these up? I wonder what he dreams about? | 14 |
| | ATG Fiction Contest
Here’s your chance to get into print and reach thousands of readers starved for fiction. | 72 |
