AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.19 # 4 September 2007 © Katina Strauch

The Importance of Intellectual Property Licensing in 21st Centur

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editor, Bryan Carson
Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman)
	The Importance of Intellectual Property Licensing in 21st Century Libraries Bryan M. Carson — Gone are the days when licensing was for lawyers, when trademark and copyright were for specialists, and intellectual property was far away from our lives.	1
	Remembering Peter Banks Greg Tananbaum — When Peter Banks was diagnosed with cancer this spring, he began keeping an online Caring Bridge journal. Greg shares some of the entries which speak to Peter’s character, his values, and his spark.	8
	Licensing in an Electronic World: A Word of Advice Kara Phillips — Forging strong relationships is key to the continued development of products and services for use by librarians and patrons.	18
	Streaming Audio and Licensing: What Libraries Need to Know Scott DeLeve — The number of ways streaming audio can be used in a library is limited only by the imagination of the individual librarian.	22
	Impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Libraries and Library Users Jane M. Larrington — This article presents a brief survey of the issues presented by digital rights management, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and other Copyright provisions for libraries, especially regarding digital copying, digital document delivery, inter-library loan, and collection development.	26
	Electronic Reserves and the Failed CONFU Guidelines: A Place to Start Negotiations Bryan Carson — Licensing, like cataloging and classification, helps to create certainty from uncertainty and order from disorder.	30
	ATG Annual Survey Report Leah Hinds — Delayed, but not forgotten, here are your 2006 Annual Survey results.	34
	Op Ed - Little Red Herrings (text) Mark Herring — A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - The oddity is that we have happily become a spectator society, happy to see the world with our eyes, not with our minds, as Shakespeare had it.	38
	What Do We Learn at Library Conferences? Sylvia McAphee — Going to a library conference presents learning possibilities that are endless. Sylvia has examined the benefits more closely.	56
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — 11 Days, 11 Libraries - Tony has been on a whirlwind tour of newly constructed teaching facilities, libraries, and LC’s in Australia/New Zealand. Check out his conclusions.	86
	Bill Cohen Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Haworth Press	40
	James R. Gray President and CEO, Ingram Digital Group	41
	David McKnight Director, SCETI of the Van Pelt Library	44
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month one of Tom’s selections is Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages.	45
	Book Reviews Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, explore the individual use of the automobile, the Religious Right, and the early history of Christianity.	48
	Melissa K. Aho	53
	John Cox	69
	Faye Abrams Projects Officer, OCUL	81
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Facts versus Expression - Annie Laura Thompson v. Looney’s Tavern Productions et al	50
	Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Questions and Answers galore!	51
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Biz of Acq Melissa Aho — Acquisitions in a Career College Library - Career colleges, also called for-profit or proprietary colleges, are one of the fastest growing areas in education today.	52
	Something To Think About Positive Dreaming - So much to dream about and so little time.	46
	And They Were There Sanford G. Thatcher — Reports of Meetings - This issue is packed with reports from SALALM, STM, UKSG, the E-Books and E-Content Conference, and the conclusion of our reports from the 2006 Charleston Conference. Printed proceedings are coming up in the fall.	57
	Papa Abel Remembers Richard Abel — The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 4: Two Astonishing Phone Calls - Wherein Reed College Bookstore, Inc. would be pleased to supply whatever books the libraries wished.	67
	As I See It! John Cox — Tribalism is Alive and Well and All Around Us - Deep inside us are primitive behavior patterns that drive us in our jobs and in our communities.	68
	Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services Anne Langley — Case Study Six: Run with the Meeting - This one’s about running your first meeting.	70
	Lost in Austin Thomas Leonhardt — My School Books - Do you remember your school books? Tom does.	71
	Bet You Missed It Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings — In the News - do Meucci and Bell have in common?	72
	Issues in Vendor Library Relations (text) Bob Nardini — 400 Catalogers - Bob tells us what happened when he spoke before a Library of Congress Working Group.	73
	International Dateline Dr. Peter T. Shepherd — COUNTER-based Journal Usage Factor: A Meaningful New Measure? - Since COUNTER was launched five years ago, the standards it has set have greatly improved the reliability and usability of online vendor usage statistics.	75
	Something Else To Think About Mary Massey — Building Better Mousetraps - Think. Anything can come to light or be solved!	80
	The Library Administrator: A Composite Portrait Matthew Bruccoli — This character sketch is assembled from a representative sampling of bad librarians Dr. Bruccoli has known.	84
	IMHBCO (pdf) Rick Anderson — Necessity, Virtue, and “Research Skills” - Fifteen years into the electronic revolution, have we forgotten how terribly difficult it was to locate information with just card catalogs and printed indexes?	76
	Standards Column (pdf) Todd Carpenter — Standards, Scalability, and the Efficiency of Digital Libraries - Digital content has opened a world of new possibilities for users and librarians. Todd discusses some of the benefits and challenges.	77
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ Greg Tananbaum — PennTags - PennTags represents the University of Pennsylvania’s attempt to cut through the clutter of Web resources by showing its users what like-minded community members value.	78
	Desperately Seeking Copyright Edward W. Colleran — Reuse Licensing: Change is Underway - Electronic content use is on the rise, and so is the perception of academic institutions that these uses could leave them vulnerable.	79
	2008 Charleston Conference Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc.	12
	Charleston Conference Dates	62
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Greetings - A new greeting card line has been designed for libraries trying to retrieve overdue books.	74