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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
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| | Library Collections
Margaret Landesman — Will They Still Need Us When Everything is Online and Findable by the Major Search Engines? - What does the future hold for library collections? | 6 |
| | Convenient, Communitarian, Interactive, & Media Rich Collections
Daniel R. Lee — The materials we buy, borrow, or build for students will need to be viewable in the tools they use, and available where they normally look, or risk being ignored. | 18 |
| | If It’s Not Digital It Does Not Exist
Johann van Reenen — The Future of Science and Technology Collection Development - Our only real option in our changing electronic environment is to capitalize on emergent systems. The author hopes to begin a debate. | 22 |
| | Collection Development & SURVIVAL in the “Mostly Digital” Library
Dr. Michael Stoller — The vast archival holdings of our special collections, millions of linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts and realia, while they will certainly be the objects of selective conversion and the source of wonderful digital exhibits, don’t at present suggest a viable business model for mass digitization. | 28 |
| | Is Access to Government Information Getting Better or Worse?
Katherine Holvoet — The simple answer is yes, access to government information is getting better and worse. | 32 |
| | Missing Information and the Long Tail:
Amy Brunvand — How Distributed Collection Development Assures the Continued Relevance of Libraries by Amy Brunvand - The Web has not solved the problem of missing information. It has merely changed the nature of the problem. | 34 |
| | Are New Technology and New Business Models Leading to a New Literature?
Stephen Rhind-Tutt — Stephen talks about a new Website and how it may have the potential for transforming scholarly publishing. | 38 |
| | From SEP to SEPIA
Colin Allen and Cecile Jagodzinski — How and Why Indiana University is Helping the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The SEP’s current growth spurt will eventually settle down, but even when it does the SEP is designed to keep growing and responding to new scholarly developments. | 42 |
| | Collecting Abstractions
Amanda Maple — Music in the Library - For hundreds of years, music has been printed on paper but many scores are born digital and that’s just part of the story. | 44 |
| | Op Ed — Crazy Idea # 274
Rick Anderson — Just Stop Collecting - Instead of figuring out how to ratchet down the activity of our current acquisition model, perhaps the time has come to move towards a different model altogether. | 50 |
| | Images Matter: The Introduction of Artstor at The UC Berkeley
Lynn Cunningham and Kathryn Wayne — For the first time, librarians and visual resource curators were given the option to license a fairly comprehensive, coherent online digital-image database tailored to the research and pedagogical needs of the academic community. | 59 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Memories of Food and Thoughts about Library Service Quality - Do food and eBooks have anything in common? | 94 |
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| | Patrick C. Kindregan
Associate Director, Better World Books | 52 |
| | Tom Sanville
Executive Director, OhioLINK | 56 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Chad Hutchens
Electronic Resources Librarian, Montana State University | 76 |
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| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - Explore a fictional exposé of the scientific journals publishing industry, the history of racial segregation in Charleston’s education system, the etymology and use of words and phrases, and the sacred quality of libraries and librarians. | 52 |
| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West; Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004; and the Oxford Companion to the Garden are just a few of the titles Tom reviews in this issue. | 64 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking (pdf)
Bryan Carson — John Doe and the PATRIOT Act - There have been two cases where the NSL (National Security Letters) provisions of the PATRIOT Act have been challenged. | 70 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Piling on Ebay via Patent Litigation - Well, with our finger ever on the pulse of legal trends in USA, we’ve been chattering in ATG about the Supreme Court reining in frivolous patent suits, and here we have one. | 72 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Chad Hutchens — Big Deal E-Journals Packages and Third Party Subscription Vendors: Does It Make Sense Anymore? - Is it a good option for libraries of all sizes to use vendors’ services in managing electronic resources? | 74 |
| | From the University Presses
Peter Givler — What do university presses and university libraries have in common, and how do they differ? | 77 |
| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings - SALALM Annual Conference and ALA New Orleans. | 78 |
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| | Drinking From the Firehose (pdf)
Eleanor Cook — Two Responses to “Top 10 Suggestions to Publishers of E-Journals” - Robert Boissy and Linda Beebe respond. | 80 |
| | Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services
Anne Langley — Case Study Four: The Big Collection Assessment Project — The Bane of a Selector’s Existence, or a Beautiful Zen Experience? - How will you find time to review your stack areas for the collection assessment project. Here are some tips. | 82 |
| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — Reading at Risk - The National Endowment for the Humanities released a shocking study (Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading) barely two years ago showing a rapid and sharp decline in reading over the last 20 years. | 83 |
| | Lost in Austin
Thomas W. Leonhardt — A Tribute to My Friend by Thomas W. Leonhardt - This tribute is for my recently retired friend, Fred Lynden. | 84 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Bob Nardini — A Bookmobile Named Desire - ALA volunteers sorted through unopened boxes of gift books, and the bookmobile caravan took them away. | 86 |
| | Group Therapy
Beth Bernhardt — Do any of you have thoughts about whether to archive eBooks? | 88 |
| | Bet You Missed
Pamela Rose — | 91 |
| | Something To Think About
Mary Tinker Massey — Compact and Powerful! - This issue’s discussion revolves around the usage of microform as a substitute for print issues. | 93 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Kristen DeVoe — Electronic-Only Format for New Journal Publication: A Medium for Innovation - Despite the opportunities that electronic-only journals have, through the use of technology and the Internet as a publishing medium, to make a successful impact in their intended fields many have failed. | 62 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — What is Web 2.0? What exactly does it mean? The phrase was coined by computer book mogul Tim O’Reilly in 2004. A quick look at O’Reilly’s explanation yields more candy floss than steak. However, O’Reilly’s five page explanation is actually quite good. | 92 |
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| | International Dateline
Peter Shepherd — An interview with Michael Mabe, the new CEO of the STM publishers association. | 89 |
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| | Barbara Nelson Obituary
submitted by Nancy Gibbs and Bonnie MacEwen — | 8 |
| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — Selling Your Soul - This is about ... well ... you read it first ... | 16 |
