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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editor, Margaret Landesman | |
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Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman) |
| | Our Users Are Your Users (pdf)
Margaret Landesman — Academic and public libraries share core values and goals. We share users. We can get closest to filling our mission if we work at this together and if both sets of librarians work at telling both sets of users about both sets of libraries. | 1 |
| | A View Toward the Public Side of Scholarly Communication (pdf)
John Ober — There is untapped potential to share and collaborate on scholarly communication issues, starting with public access to publicly-funded research results. | 18 |
| | Medical Information (pdf)
Sally Patrick — When Limited Access Can Have Life-changing Consequences by Sally Patrick — There is no subject where information being current, accurate, and thoroughly validated is as critical as it is with medical information. | 24 |
| | “Free to all” (pdf)
Barbara G. Preece — Made Possible by an Academic/Public Library Collaboration — As the first large library consortium to announce a self-funded partnership with a major digitalizing project, the Open Content Alliance, the Boston Library Consortium is providing materials with none of the restrictions that apply to materials scanned by Google or Microsoft. | 24 |
| | The Alabama Vision (pdf)
Sue O. Medina — Library users need to move easily among their communities’ libraries, seeking information regardless of the “type of library” available to them. No single library or type of library can meet all the needs of its users. | 26 |
| | Enriching Communities (pdf)
Anne Carr-Wiggin and Louise Reimer — A Shared Interest for Academic and Public Libraries by Anne Carr-Wiggin and Louise Reimer — Public libraries are grounded in the cornerstone belief that they are central to the quality of life in their communities, working within a framework of community partnerships. | 28 |
| | A Recipe for Success (pdf)
Lisa German — Two Cups of Collaboration, Two Cups of Hard Work, and a Cup of Good Timing — Facilitating the 2007 Pennsylvania Library Association Conference by Lisa German — This is about a collaboration between a public and the university research library. | 32 |
| | Public Libraries for (pdf)
Gretchen L. Freeman — College Students! — With a mission to serve community information and recreation needs, public libraries offer college students collections, facilities and services that complement those available to students on campus. | 34 |
| | Where to Go Shopping For Information (pdf)
Samantha Larsen Hastings — Public Libraries or Academic Libraries? — Why do college students frequent public libraries in the place of, or in addition to, academic libraries? | 34 |
| | Satisfaction Guaranteed (pdf)
Kate Holvoet — A System of Asynchronous Desire — Online bookstore catalogs often have features such as reviews, ratings, and recommendations that can lead to exploring new authors, formats and subjects. | 39 |
| | A Quick Glimpse (pdf)
Marie Paiva — at Public and Academic Libraries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Public libraries in Addis Ababa are about 100 in number and vary greatly in size. | 40 |
| | Op Ed
Rick Anderson — IMHBCO (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) The Catalog: What Is It Good For? — Clearly, the library catalog is good for something. But is it good for what it’s traditionally been used for? | 41 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Librarianship Is Hot Again! by Tony Ferguson — “All sorts of organizations need librarians, not just universities and local governments. In fact, special librarianship is the field’s fastest-growing job market.” says Marty Nemko. | 52 |
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| | 10 Steps to Implementing an eBook Collection: A Guide for Librarians (pdf)
Cynthia Cleto — Electronic books and periodicals provide flexibility, economy, and efficiency traditional publications cannot match. Here are some pitfalls to avoid. | 44 |
| | Promoting and Embedding E-textbooks: The Library Challenge
Caren Milloy — JISC Collections held a workshop with UK higher education librarians to acquire a deeper understanding of the issues that librarians and information professionals face when promoting and embedding e-textbooks into learning and teaching processes. | 47 |
| | Using Rare Books to Inspire Learning — Part 1: Anthropology - Diaries (pdf)
Gene Waddell — Numerous lists of great books have been prepared, and this list contains many of the same titles, but differs in significant respects. | 48 |
| | Academic Libraries After Print
Allen McKiel — Allen believes the three primary foci of the academic library of the future are acquisition, instruction, and publication. | 56 |
| | Collaboration and Context: Wikis in the Workplace
Keith Engwall and Steve McKinzie — Are libraries discovering the potential of Wikis? | 79 |
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| | W. Eric Emerson
Executive Director, Charleston Library Society | 86 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles — This month Tom’s selections include Oxford University Press’ African American National Biography, Sage’s Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, and Women in the American Civil War published by ABC-Clio. | 53 |
| | Parlez-vous Francais
Thomas Leonhardt — The Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is up-to-date and “gets right to the heart of both languages.” | 54 |
| | Book Reviews
Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings — Read an ALA source that ponders Net Gen researchers. | 55 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan Carson — Copyright and For-Profit Educational Institutions — Librarians and faculty members in for-profit schools face different challenges from those in nonprofit or governmental institutions. This can have a substantial impact on the educational process. | 57 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! | 58 |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley and RR Donnelley & Sons. | 61 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Matt Bailey — Quick Tips for Media Selection and Acquisitions — Specialty media collections, such as video collections, can be a challenge for collection management and acquisitions librarians who often have to work without a media librarian in-house. | 62 |
| | From the University Presses
Sanford G. Thatcher — How to Establish a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication, Part II: A Sympathetic View — As promised, Part II looks at the ACRL Report through a set of different lenses. | 64 |
| | And They Were There
Ramune Kubilius — 2007 Charleston Conference Reports — Compiled by Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters. The second installment of reports are here, and more are coming, so keep reading! | 65 |
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| | The DLB At Thirty
Matthew J. Bruccoli — This is a brief history of the DLB, the most comprehensive published literary reference work for all periods. | 72 |
| | Something To Think About
Mary (Tinker) Massey — What Now? — Has your library been invaded by coffee? | 73 |
| | As I See It!
John Cox — Libel Law in the UK: Free Speech Under Threat? — The UK law of libel has been under the spotlight in recent months. | 74 |
| | Little Red Herrings (pdf)
Mark Y. Herring — Stop the Presses! — A new study found that the “Google Generation” is not very Web-literate. | 75 |
| | You Gotta Go to School for That? (pdf)
Jared Seay — Love and Roses in the Library — Here’s a warm reference-assistance story that Jared experienced on Valentine’s Day. | 76 |
| | Media Minder
Philip Hallman — Outsourcing Your Non-Print Media Requirement — Thirteen years ago, Ambassador Book Service became the first jobber to actively assist college and university libraries in acquiring non-print materials. | 77 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings – In the News — What do rock-n-rollers like U-2 and Hannah Montana have in common? Read about it here! | 78 |
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| | Standards Column (pdf)
Todd Carpenter — The Problems of Institutional Identification: Toward a Universal Institutional ID — Institutional identification is a complicated issue with many overlapping concerns, problems, and use cases. | 82 |
| | Technology Left Behind
Cris Ferguson — Let’s Go Zotero — The development of bibliographic management services has fundamentally changed the way many researchers keep track of their research resources and create bibliographies. | 83 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — Stanford in Second Life — Stanford has created a virtual library within Second Life. Greg recently interviewed two of the founding forces behind Stanford’s foray into this brave new (cyber)world. | 84 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship — Performance Appraisal
Ned Kraft — The Capricious Library System is the answer …. | 76 |
