AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.19 # 3 June 2007 © Katina Strauch

Best Practices in Collection Development

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editor, Kristen DeVoe
Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman)
	Best Practices in Collection Development Kristen DeVoe — A “best practice ” is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome.	1
	The Network of Alabama Academic Libraries and the Consortial Licensing of Electronic Databases Rickey D. Best — A look at how the NAAL developed their practices and policies for the consortial licensing of electronic databases.	16
	From Print to Electronic: The UC Merced Experience Jim Dooley — When the library opened in September 2005, UC Merced librarians were immediately faced with the fundamental question of what a 21st century research library collection should be.	22
	Moving From Good Effort to Best Practice — Refining a Weeding Process in a Dental School Library Barbara A. Gushrowski — This article presents details of a process that, through refinement, worked well in the Indiana University School of Dentistry Library and how a good effort became a Best Practice.	26
	Library Liaisons and the Organization Daniel Mack — An Open System View of Collection Development in the Academic Library - By creating models showing how liaisons fit into the complex and symbiotic relationships of the library, the university, and the larger society, we can create tools to gather and assess information about liaison activities, and then design policies that are both informed by the larger environment, and also support that environment’s needs.	32
	Long Live the Approval Plan, Even in a Time of Financial Constraints Elizabeth Lorenzen and Suzanne Kapusta — Budgetary constraints in 2005 led Elizabeth and Suzanne to begin work to revamp the library’s trade approval profile, and to merge other plans into one cohesive plan.	40
	Collection Development: Current Options and Future Concerns Corey Tucker — This article identifies common procedures and methods that have been used in collection assessments, including the types of assessment and the various tools and statistics that can be used.	44
	Print to Electronic: Managing Electronic Resources Dan Tonkery — Is It Time the Library Had an Extreme Makeover - When you have libraries that once processed and managed 1,500 subscription titles now faced with access and management of the 20,000 titles that their library now has access to electronically, one should not be surprised to see the workload of that unit increase beyond manageable proportions.	50
	Op Ed Susan Klimley — A Digital Artifact Cannot Replace the Original - Susan says she did a draft of this piece after hearing Matthew Bruccoli’s empassioned speech at the Charleston Conference last year. Reading his article in the April ATG, she decided to share this essay with us.	55
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — In Your Face - Unless we are willing to wait like the buggies and their whips to be replaced by cars, we need to get our stuff out in the face of our users.	94
	Donald Beagle Barbara Tierney — Director of Library Services, Belmont Abbey College	56
	Rickey D. Best	18
	Jim Dooley	24
	Barbara A. Gushrowski, MLS	28
	Daniel C. Mack	36
	Suzanne Kapusta	42
	Cory Tucker	46
	Dan Tonkery	52
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month one of Tom’s selections is the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.	60
	Book Reviews Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - In this issue, investigate whodunit!	62
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Googling Our Way to Big Social Benefit	64
	Not Such a Big Deal Laura Gasaway — The fact is that Many Too Many is Much Too Much. Selectivity is an option that may be becoming obsolete.	67
	Biz of Acq Mary Ann Lieb — Predicting Serials Inflation Rates in the Era of Electronic Resources - Librarians can no longer rely on predictions based on external price surveys, since individualized contracts and the variety of pricing models make it difficult to gather reliable cost statistics. New methods of estimating inflation rates are needed.	72
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings - In this issue we have tons of reports from the 2006 Charleston Conference. Printed proceedings are coming up in the fall. Plus, Cris Ferguson has reported on the 2007 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference.	80
	Bet You Missed It Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings — In the News - What do Britany Spears and Google have in common? Read about it here!	12
	Library Marketplace John Riley — Elizabeth Fitzpatrick reviews Google and the Myth of Universal Scholarship by Jean-Noël Jeannerey	63
	Convictions Matthew J. Bruccoli — Lessons for Library Benefactors - Some recommended policies for donors of books, manuscripts, and other literary research resources.	68
	Issues in Vendor Library Relations Bob Nardini — Column People - What’s the difference between blogs and columns? Are columnists obsolete? What good columnists do offer readers is a point-of-view, their own way of thinking, and an attitude, their own way of expressing themselves.	70
	Little Red Herrings Mark Herring — On Remembrance of Things Past: Woodstock and the Counterculture - When Utopias can somehow be linked to a political entity, the subsequent delirium from would-be followers numbers millions.	75
	As I See It John Cox — The Tussle Over European Rights - British and US publishers had a cozy arrangement over English language territorial rights. But the internal trading rules of what we now know of as the EU effectively made this arrangement unenforceable.	76
	Papa Abel Remembers Richard Abel — Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 3: Learning the Sales Call - Wherein we learn something about marketing a business.	77
	Group Therapy Christine Fischer — Screening of Donations? - Some tips to streamline and expedite your gift book processing procedures.	79
	Technology Left Behind Cris Ferguson — Making Friends Online: Library Use of Social Networking Services - In the ATG February issue, Karen Christensen discussed a variety of social media and their uses. In this issue Cris has taken a more in-depth look at one particular social media.	86
	Innovations Affecting Us Kristen DeVoe — A Home-Grown License Manager: Is It For Your Library? - Natalee Hattig, Electronic Resources Collection Management Librarian, was involved with the design and implementation of a home-grown license manager at FSU Libraries.	88
	eBook Rollout - Technology Left Behind (html) Cris Ferguson — The Second eBook Rollout - Last November (v.18#5), Cris compared several eBook offerings by publishers and aggregators. This is an update.	90
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ Greg Tananbaum — This month Greg interviews Joseph J. Esposito, President of Portable CEO, an independent consultancy providing strategy assessment and interim management to the information industries.	92
	2007 Charleston Conference Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc	12
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Datamaze Reviews - Ned says that several experts were unable to determine the nature of this data.	54
	Charleston Conference Dates	83