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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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Guest Editor, Tim Bucknall (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
and Beth Bernhardt (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) | 0 |
| | Pricing Models for Electronic Resources: What’s on the Menu?
by Tim Bucknall and Beth Bernhardt — In this issue of ATG, four experienced professionals help us make sense of today’s lengthy menu of pricing options. | 1 |
| | Electronic Resources Pricing: A Variety of Models
by Christine Fischer — Determining pricing for physical resources actually housed in the bricks and mortar facility is relatively simple. In contrast, libraries must select electronic resources that range from databases to online journals to eBooks, and these information tools are purchased using pricing models that tax every library with their variability. | 16 |
| | Got a Simple and Innovative Pricing Model? You Can Keep It.
by Rick Anderson — When it comes to pricing, simplicity is not necessarily an unalloyed good. What ultimately matters is not the structure, or the way the price is arrived at, but the final price itself. | 22 |
| | Duke University Press Implements New Pricing Model for the e-Duke Scholarly Collection
by Kimberly Steinle — In 2005 Duke University Press launched an electronic journals package with 29 titles. The Press used interim pricing for that initial year, and in 2006 implemented new pricing. | 24 |
| | Own or Rent? A Survey of eBook Licensing Models. (pdf)
Scott Rice — eBooks seem poised to take off and with the advent of exciting new technologies, eBooks may finally break into the big time. | 28 |
| | Op Ed — Opinions and Editorials
Pam and Susan’s Excellent Greenwich Village Bookstore Adventure by Susan Campbell and Pam Cenzer — The Charleston Conference mentors decided to take Larry Portzline up on one of his Bookstore Tours.
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| | Back Talk
Tony Ferguson — Janus Conference Key Challenges: Whacky and Non-totally Whacky Ideas by Tony Ferguson — The ideas associated with digitizing past and present materials, to preserve our printed legacy are all good goals/challenges. | 94 |
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| | SUPERBOOK Research Project at UCL
by Anthony Watkinson — We are about to witness a major paradigm shift in the use of books: electronic or “eBooks” are emerging as a major resource in the academic world. | 38 |
| | A Leisure Cinema Collection
Julie Flanders and Cynthia Gregory — by Julie Flanders and Cynthia Gregory — Though this new leisure cinema collection fell outside the traditional educational role of the library, it was a need expressed by visitors to the library. | 40 |
| | Homespun Cultural Artifacts: Collecting Quilts for Fun and Babies
by Kirstin Steele — Peg Bradshaw, Circulation Services Director at the Williamsburg Regional Library, has collected quilts for over 30 years. | 42 |
| | From the Reference Desk
Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Historical Statistics of the United States is just one of the titles Tom reviews this month. | 44 |
| | Colliding Technologies
by Norman Desmarais — The next generation of DVD media — high definition or HD — has begun to ship and, guess what, there are two competing standards to deal with. Sound familiar? | 77 |
| | Review Essay: Anthropology As Natural History (pdf)
Gene Waddell — Three expeditions had major influence on the development of anthropology. These expeditions are also among the most important examples of travel literature. | 85 |
| | Predicting High-Circulating Titles for Public Libraries
by Bob Molyneux — The Normative Data Project is a huge pool of potential discovery. It collects data on various aspects of U.S. public libraries. | 93 |
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| | Martha Sedgwick
Product Manager, ScholarlyStats, MPS Technologies | 34 |
| | Patrick Alexander
Vice President and Publishing Director, North America, De Gruyter/Mouton-De Gruyter | 36 |
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| | Tim Bucknall
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| | Beth R. Bernhardt
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| | Kimberly Steinle
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| | Peg Bradshaw
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| | Book Reviews
Monographic Musings by Debbie Vaughn — In this issue, Phillip Powell explores past U.S.-Soviet relations and labor through literature. | 50 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery
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| | Legally Speaking
Round-up of Library-Related Legislation in the 109th Congress by Bryan Carson | 52 |
| | Cases of Note
Anna in the Altogether — Lanham Act - False Endorsement by Bruce Strauch | 54 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column by Laura Gasaway | 56 |
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| | Biz of Acq
by Todd L. Butler and Dustin P. Larmore — Of the approximately seventy libraries that used the existing PALS library management system, only ten percent used the acquisitions subsystem. | 57 |
| | And They Were There
Fytton Rowland and Hazel Woodward — Reports of Meetings — Fytton Rowland and Hazel Woodward report on the United Kingdom Serials Group Conference, 3-5 April 2006, University of Warwick, UK. | 58 |
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| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — Ah, Libraries: How I Love the Smell of ... Electronic Access?! by Mark Herring — Children of baby-boomers will now have yet one more reason to laugh at their parents. | 60 |
| | Occasional Rambles in the World of the Book
by Richard Abel — Books, the library’s centuries-long principal raison d’etre, remain the library’s enduring reason for being.
Something To Think About | 61 |
| | “The Name’s the Thing!”
Mary Tinker Massey — We must evaluate titles in our collections on the basis of relevancy to the curricula and other on-campus programs, but also be aware of the many formats that will allow us to clear print from the shelves. | 62 |
| | I, User
Competitive Librarianship by Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Libraries have always competed, gently, with one another for rankings but the advent of Google/Yahoo/MSN has heated things up. | 64 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Review of Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library by David Swords — This is a book about the relationship between libraries and their suppliers. | 65 |
| | Group Therapy
To Check-In or Not to Check-In by Beth Bernhardt — Some libraries have eliminated print serials check in. | 67 |
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| | International Dateline
Scholarly Publishing: A European Perspective by Dr. Peter T. Shepherd — Peter covers a couple of significant meetings in Europe in April. | 68 |
| | View from New Zealand
Mixed Media in Libraries by Gita Gunatilleke — With positive feedback from students about these interactive mixed media publications the number of such titles are steadily on the increase. | 70 |
| | Bet You Missed It
by Pamela Rose — What do X-Men and iPods have in common? Read about it here. | 71 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Kristen DeVoe — Do Web Applications Need to be Cleaned Up? | 72 |
| | NISO Metasearch Initiative Issues First Set of Recommendations
by Cynthia Hodgson — This is the second of a two-part article. | 74 |
| | Technology Left Behind
An Ode to the Typewriter by Cris Ferguson | 79 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
An Interview with Sally Morris by Greg Tananbaum | 81 |
| | Wandering the Web
Subcultures on the Internet: Part Two: Dance by Jack Montgomery | 83 |
| | Desperately Seeking Copyright
Copyright Permissioning Permeates Library Operations by Edward W. Colleran | 92 |
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| | Remembering Papa Lyman
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| | 2006 Charleston Conference
Call For Papers, Ideas, Panels, Debates, Diatribes, Speakers, Poster Sessions, Preconferences, etc. ... | 8 |
| | Vicky Helen Speck Obituary
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| | ATG Fiction Contest
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
The Grand Tour by Ned Kraft | 30 |
