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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editors, Beth Bernhardt and Nathan Norris | |
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Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman) |
| | The Google Effect — Part 1
Beth Bernhardt and Nathan Norris — | 1 |
| | I Google, You Google, We Google . . .
Aline Soules — In libraries, we continue to buy whole books in print or e-format. How can we justify this in the face of new reading trends? | 18 |
| | Using Google in Technical Services: An Unscientific Survey
Carol H. Jewell — Carol has some enlightening results to share with us. | 22 |
| | Imperfect Tools: Google Scholar vs. Traditional Commercial Library Databases (pdf)
Julie Arendt — Should Google Scholar replace subscription databases? | 26 |
| | Google and the Search for Federal Government Information (pdf)
Bonnie Klein — John Lewis Needham, Google’s Manager for Public Sector Content Partnerships, has testified that: “The government produces a lot of information and these databases cannot be navigated by Web crawlers.” | 30 |
| | Google Docs: A Review
Ramirose Attebury, Julie George, Cindy Judd, Brad Marcum, and Nicole Montgomery — Ever wonder how to get everyone together on the same page? Enter Google Docs. | 38 |
| | Op Ed — What is a Book?
David Lindley — This is a general rumination on the changing publishing formats in the supply chain. | 46 |
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| | My Love of Books: Source of Life Support
Nedelina Tchangalova — This was the winning essay in the fifth and final Rachel K. Schenk essay contest. | 52 |
| | Using Rare Books to Inspire Learning – Part 2: Drama - Travel (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. | 78 |
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| | Skip Pritchard
President and CEO Ingram Book Group | 44 |
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| | Carol Jewell
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| | Julie Arendt
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| | Bonnie Klein
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| | Ramirose Ilene Attebury
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| | Julie George
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| | Cindy Judd
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| | Brad Marcum
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| | Nicole Montgomery
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| | Nedelina Tchangalova
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month two of Tom’s selections include the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography; and the Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones. | 50 |
| | Book Reviews
Debbie Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, explore history. | 51 |
| | The Informed Librarian Online
Elaine Robbins — Elaine has spent some time on this great Website. | 54 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking
Bryan M. Carson — Warren, Brandeis, and the Creation of the Legal Concept of Privacy - While we have made refinements to the law of privacy in the past 128 years, most of what we know today as the law of privacy came from the pen of two great legal minds Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis. | 55 |
| | Cases of Note — Copyright
Bruce Strauch — Useful Articles - Universal Furniture International, Inc. v. Collezione Europa USA, Inc. United States. | 58 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Can a library download audio books as a less expensive alternative to purchasing the books on CD? | 59 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Gary Handman — Views from the Edge: Commercial Sources for Video Weirdness and Ephemera - While print catalog sources for acquiring movie marginalia have been around since the dawn of VHS, the Internet and the advent of DVD have really opened this territory. | 60 |
| | From the University Presses
Sanford G. Thatcher — What Is Educational Fair Use - The ARL released a paper by Jonathan Band who discusses three recent appellate decisions concerning fair use. | 62 |
| | And They Were There
Ramune Kubilius — 2007 Charleston Conference Reports - by Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters. | 65 |
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| | Bet You Missed It
Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings — In the News - do drinking and careers have in common? Read it here. | 14 |
| | Something To Think About
Mary Tinker Massey — It’s the Little Things! - What do we do with valuable but small and seemingly insignificant, pieces of information? | 42 |
| | Group Therapy
Christine Fischer — Moving fully to Electronic Journals - How do you involve faculty in decisions about canceling all print journals, even the current issues? | 64 |
| | Media Minder
Philip Hallman — An Interview with Jonathan Miller - For more than twenty years, First Run/Icarus Films, has provided quality films that stand out from the crowd. | 70 |
| | Papa Abel Remembers
Richard Abel — The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 5: Unconventional Travel - Richard says that they had been defining scholarly books far too narrowly. They had to stock sci/tech books at once and in breadth and depth. | 72 |
| | As I See It!
John Cox — Emerging Trends in Textbooks — Libraries Will Feel the Effect - John reports on remarks by Tom Davey as reported in the Bookseller. | 74 |
| | Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services
Anne Langley — Case Study Eight: The Search Committee — So Many Resumes, How Do I Do My Part? - What is expected of someone on a search committee. | 75 |
| | Little Red Herrings (doc)
Mark Herring — IRs Rx for Libs? Possibly. - IRs really aren’t trying to supplant or in any way compete with publishing. They are more storehouses of materials that may or may not rise to the level of books or book-making. | 77 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Bob Nardini — Cyrkled - Today it’s hard for vendor reps not to notice that lots of libraries have gotten pretty good at marketing. What do domestic flights, reading, the Cyrkle, and Thomas Dawes have in common? Read about it here! | 81 |
Edited by Pat Harris |
| | Incubating New Standards Initiatives (pdf)
Todd Carpenter — A Report From the First NISO Thought Leader Meeting - NISO has instituted a series of Thought Leader meetings to assess topics of concern and areas that are in need of standards development | 83 |
| | Technology Left Behind
Cris Ferguson — Throwing Kindling on the eBook Fire - In November 2007, Amazon released Kindle, its own proprietary eBook reader, which is providing new and stiff competition for other eBook readers. Do you want a Kindle? Cris says good luck! | 84 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — The Rise of China - How will scholarly communication adapt to the Chinese influence? | 86 |
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| | 2008 Charleston Conference
Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc. | 8 |
| | Charleston Conference Dates
Future dates for Charleston Conferences through 2011. | 12 |
