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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
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| | ATG Fiction Page ATG Insert (pdf)
Jill Coupe — (ATG Insert) - “Old Friends, New Eyes” by Jill Coupe — Read about tea, transformation, and libraries. | 0 |
| | Collection Assessment in the Digital Age
Kristen DeVoe — As electronic collections grow, libraries are finding themselves faced with a new type of collection assessment. | 1 |
| | Collection Inventory in the Digital Age: How Can We Analyze Until We Know What We Have?
Debbi Smith — In 2005, the Adelphi University Libraries began a strategic planning process using ACRL’s Standards for Libraries in Higher Education as a template. | 18 |
| | Assessing E-Collections When Every E-Resource Has its Reader, Every Reader has His/Her E-Resource, and E-Resources are Ever Growing
Anjana Bhatt — Electronic resources, or e-resources, whether born digital or converted, are enticing students and librarians alike and have quickly become the format of choice. | 24 |
| | Digital Library of Earth Systems Education: Collections Assessment
Barbara DeFelice and Constance Rinaldo — The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a multi-faceted digital library that includes a searchable collection of metadata records for educational resources. | 30 |
| | Changing the Way Libraries and Faculty Assess Periodical Collections in the Electronic
Jenica Rogers — At SUNY Potsdam the time had come to change the campus conversation about periodicals, and in doing so, change perceptions about library periodical collections. The time had come to try something new. | 38 |
| | Reflections on the OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool: We Still Need the Next Step
Darby Orcutt and Tracy Powell — North Carolina State University (NCSU) logged hundreds of hours over more than six months on a variety of analysis projects using WCA. | 44 |
| | Legacy Government Documents Collections in the Digital
Brian W. Rossmann — Montana State University’s Government Information Futures Task Force did a serious assessment of the documents collection in order to evaluate how best to meet current and future needs. | 48 |
| | Moving Towards Data-Driven Development: WorldCat Collection Analysis
Alice Sneary — What if you had all that data and metadata ... if you had “everything” ... where would you put it? And how could you keep it reasonably current? | 54 |
| | Op Ed
Steve McKinzie — Rhetoric, Library Management, and Organizational Mergers: Why We Can’t Talk Straight about Integrating Library and Computer Center Services — Recently the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) sponsored a conference for senior college and university administrators at Kenyon College. | 62 |
| | Open Access: Walking the Talk
Richard Gedye — Oxford University Press, has been trying out and studying whether or not Open Access publishing can work for mainstream journals and what has been learned from putting NAR (Nucleic Acids Research) online and tryout mixed models with other mainstream OUP journals. | 79 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Continuity and Change by Tony Ferguson — As librarians we used to live in a card culture. Younger librarians today would have no knowledge of the catalog filing parties that would sometimes be held to bribe everyone in the library to help Cataloging catch up. | 94 |
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| | Chris Warnock
CEO, ebrary | 68 |
| | Zoltán Papp
Akademiai Kiado, Hungary | 70 |
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| | Jill Coupe
(ATG Insert) | 0 |
| | Debbi A. Smith
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| | Anjana H. Bhatt
| 26 |
| | Barbara DeFelice
| 36 |
| | Constance Rinaldo
| 38 |
| | Jenica Rogers-Urbanek
| 40 |
| | Tracey Powell
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| | Alice Sneary
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| | Glenda Lammers
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass; Atlas of North American English, Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change; and Encyclopedia of World Poverty are just a few of the titles Tom reviews this month. | 74 |
| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings by Debbie Vaughn — In honor of November’s Election Day and all things pertaining to law and government, this issue’s column highlights affirmative action, copyright, contracts, and legal history. | 76 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan Carson — by Bryan Carson — Bryan has mentioned his upcoming book, The Law of Libraries and Archives, in his column about whether or not librarians need malpractice insurance. | 82 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column by Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! Here’s a sample: What are the implications of scanners being used in libraries and archives as opposed to photocopiers? Are there differences? | 84 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Substantial Similarity Must Be More Than Skin Deep. Try Six Feet. by Bruce Strauch — Have you heard about the screenplay called “The Funk Parlor?” Yes, it’s about that entertainment favorite, dysfunctional folks, in a funeral parlor. | 84 |
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| | Drinking From the Firehose (pdf)
Eleanor Cook — Blogs Are Making Me Feel Old! by Eleanor Cook — New technology has taken hold in the last few years with super-duper cell phones, Ipods, Blackberries, and Wikis. | 64 |
| | Biz of Acq
John Fenner and Audrey Fenner — Values: A Human and Organizational Resource by John Fenner and Audrey Fenner — Managers can and must determine which values are critical to organizational function and which are not. | 86 |
| | And They Were There
Ramune Kubilius — Reports of Meetings by Sever Bordeianu — Our thanks to Ramune Kubilius, who has reported on MLA and SLA for this issue. | 88 |
| | Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — Vertigo, and a Void by Mark Herring — Recently an acquaintance sent Mark the Friends newsletter from the UMA. As the budget came to its close last year, the budget line called “Education and Reference Materials” (ERM), served to fund the 29 public academic libraries in Massachusetts. What makes this a story worth retelling is that from these funds come library materials, not equipment or salaries. | 90 |
| | Issues in Vendor Library Relations
Bob Nardini — The Concord Coach by Bob Nardini — Bob has been doing a little reading in the Concord Public Library. | 91 |
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| | Technology Left Behind ATG Insert (pdf)
Cris Ferguson — (ATG Insert) - eBook Rollout by Cris Ferguson — Cris has compared some of the eBook offerings out there. Hooray! | 0 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Kristen DeVoe — The “Next Generation” of Library Access by Kristen DeVoe — Could it be true? Marcia Bates notes that “people do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find....” | 66 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — Course Management Systems (CMS) by Greg Tananbaum — This month Greg has a discussion with Isabella Hinds about the rapidly spinning world of course management systems. | 92 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — KnowledgeQuest by Ned Kraft — This is about how we get there from here. | 8 |
