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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | The Renaissance of the eBook
Tony Horava — Transformations and Question Marks - The eBook produces a gut reaction in people, and this ranges from skepticism and anxiety to guarded optimism and edgy excitement. | 1 |
| | Electronic Books and the Approval Plan: Can They Work Together?
Michael Levine-Clark — Michael assesses the challenges for integrating eBooks into approval plans. | 18 |
| | The Conundrum of eBooks and Interlibrary Loan
William Gee — Surprisingly to many, Interlibrary Loan is still heavily used, especially to borrow books. So what/will be is the relationship between eBooks and Interlibrary Loan? | 22 |
| | Turning Pages: Reflections on eBook Acquisitions & Access Challenges
Lorraine Busby — How the vendor sells products should not determine how the customer rolls out the products. Uncoupling these two activities reminds us that the vendors’ business model is separate from our internal practices and procedures. | 28 |
| | eBooks: Acquisitions, the User, and the Future
Aline Soules — Aline believes that eBooks will endure, thrive, and evolve into a new and exciting format. | 34 |
| | Rx: eBooks
Annis Lee Adams — Comparison of Functionality of Four Medical eBook Collections - eBooks have flourished in the health sciences. Annis describes and compares four major medical eBook collections: AccessMedicine, MDConsult, Books@Ovid, and STAT!Ref. | 40 |
| | One by One or Bundle by Bundle
Millie Jackson — Evaluating the Landscape of eBooks - Millie discusses the pros and cons associated with adding eBooks one by one or bundle by bundle based on her experience as a Collection Development Librarian at two institutions, Grand Valley State University and Florida State University. | 48 |
| | Evaluating Engineering Reference eBooks
Barbara Williams — Barbara focuses on the importance of getting quality user feedback and using it to make sound renewal and cancellation decisions. | 52 |
| | Op Ed
Matthew Ismail — CanWe Integrate Electronic Resources into Our Allocation Formulas? - From far away American University in Cairo Matthew asks this familiar question. | 60 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Incredible Edible India and Change Management - Is change really important? | 94 |
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| | Buzzy Basch
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| | Andrew Hutchings
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| | Buzzy Basch
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| | Tony Horava
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| | Michael Levine-Clark
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| | William Gee
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| | Lorraine Busby
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| | Aline Soules
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| | Annis Lee Adams
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| | Millie Jackson
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| | Barbara Williams
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month one of Tom’s selections is the Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: a Political, Social, and Military History published by ABC-CLIO. | 61 |
| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - In this issue, explore travelogues of yore and theories of creativity. | 63 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan Carson — Drama in the Library: Always Seek Permission to Publicly Perform Scripts Even When the Library Owns - It is important for us to know how the copyright law affects scripts and music. | 66 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Questions and Answers galore! | 68 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — BIG MUSIC Owns the US Congress, Copyright & Trademark — First Sale Doctrine | 70 |
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| | The Devil Is In The Details
Mary Ann Liebert — Mary Ann says many of her best ideas have come from reading an article in a print magazine or journal that she had not intended to read. | 64 |
| | Biz of Acq
Antje Mays — Brave New World: The Implications of Shifting to Electronic Collections - The shift in academic and research libraries to electronic collections is discussed in the context of information access, costs, publication models, and preservation of content. | 72 |
| | From the University Presses
Sandy Thatcher — Dissertations into Books? The Lack of Logic in the System - With the book widely regarded as the “gold standard” for promotion in many of the humanistic and social scientific disciplines today, it is not surprising that the revised dissertation has become almost a necessity for a junior scholar. | 75 |
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| | Something To Think About
Mary Tinker Massey — Other Duties as Assigned - In large institutions, Mary says the staff is larger and the tasks are more specific to the general library departments. | 59 |
| | Papa Abel Remembers
Richard Abel — The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 2: Ready, Set, Go! - Wherein we learn something about setting up a business. | 77 |
| | As I See It!
John Cox — Where is the Web taking our Journals? - Readers want tools that analyze and structure content in ways that make it useful to them | 79 |
| | Library Marketplace
John Riley — Booksellers Who Blog - The Web has become a great way to publicize and sell books. John highlights some of the tools that publishers and booksellers utilize. | 80 |
| | Drinking From the Firehose (pdf)
Eleanor Cook — Too Many Passwords, Too Little Time - Ain’t it the truth ... | 82 |
| | Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Management Succession in Libaries - Rick recently faced his “moment of Zen.” One moment, he was a professional peer, looking for improvements in the e-resources workflow. The next, he was mentally transformed into “boomer dude,” scrambling to keep up with a smart Gen X-er, and trying not to show it. | 84 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Bob Nardini — Features - These are those pesky computer things — wizards, task bars, toolbars, toolboxes, dialog boxes, clipboards, status bars, panes, and the hateful Office Assistant. Even features that literally do nothing. | 85 |
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| | International Dateline
Peter T. Shepherd — European Conference Adds Weight To Debate on Scientific Publishing - One of the world’s most influential political entities is very interested in access to, dissemination, and preservation of scientific information. | 86 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Kristen DeVoe — Open Source in the Library: An Alternative to the Commercial ILS? - Kristen explores several of the open source integrated library systems that are available. | 88 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — ALCTS: Part 2 - Greg examines how institutional repositories and open access fit into the Web 2.0 discussion | 90 |
| | Standards Column (pdf)
Todd Carpenter — Ready to Work Without a License? NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group - Step by step, we may yet reach a point where in many cases purchasing an electronic product will be as simple as ordering a book or journal used to be. | 92 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — American Idle - Only three librarians left. What will the judges say? Who will call in? Don’t miss this finale! | 10 |
| | 2007 Charleston Conference
Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc | 12 |
| | Charleston Conference Dates
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