AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.20 # 3 June 2008 © Katina Strauch

The Google Effect – Part 2

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editors, Beth Bernhardt and Nathan Norris
Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman)
	The Google Effect – Part 2 Beth Bernhardt and Nathan Norris —	1
	Kinda Just Like Google Ghaphery, Susan Teague-Rector, and Sam Byrd — Presence and Variety of Search Options on Library Homepages - The future of library search may rest outside of the native interface or even the library homepage.	18
	The 21st Century Searcher (pdf) Michael Gorrell — How the Growth of Search Engines Affected the Redesign of EBSCOhost - If a site is overly complex, foreign, or “clunky,” users will move on to something that’s easier, even if it doesn’t have the “best” material.	22
	Giggling Over Google Lilia Murray — Using Google Docs and Google Custom Search Engines for Web 2.0 Information Literacy Practices - Perhaps the greatest reward is that Google Docs and Custom Search Engines make teaching and learning more fun.	28
	Original Proposal Nathan Rupp — Developing a Business Library Collection in the Age of Google - Libraries are no longer the only party responsible for negotiating for information, collecting it, and providing access to it.	34
	Keeping the Enemy Close John Wenzler — Integrating Google Scholar into the Online Academic Library - Is Google Scholar a disruptive innovation with ambiguous implications for the future of academic libraries?	38
	Measuring the “Google Effect” at JSTOR Bruce Heterich — We are just beginning to see institutions, publishers, and providers begin to measure the “Google Effect” and distill usable lessons from those experiences.	44
	Op Ed Bruce Sanders — Prescription vs. Description in the Information-seeking Process, or Should we Encourage our Patrons to use Google Scholar? - There is a lively debate in the library world about how to optimize library Websites to foster information seeking by patrons.	48
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — Violated or Elated? - In the spirit of the Open Web and the digital future, the University of Hong Kong Libraries made the decision several years ago to go electronic for theses and dissertations.	86
	Remmel Nunn Vice President, New Product Development, Readex - The Company’s Newly Created “Crossroads” Interactive Research Environment	56
	Tom Richardson Director, Institution Sales & Service, The New England Journal of Medicine	58
	Chris Beckett Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Atypon	60
	Jimmy Ghaphery	16
	Ramirose Ilene Attebury	16
	Sam Byrd	18
	Susan Rector	22
	Michael Gorrell	24
	Lilia Murray	26
	Nathan Rupp	36
	John Wenzler	40
	Bruce Heterich	42
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month two of Tom’s selections include The Encyclopedia of Epidemiology, and Shakespeare’s Language: A Glossary of Unfamiliar Words in His Plays and Poems.	50
	Book Reviews Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, learn about film noir and library Web design in reviews provided by Phillip Powell and Todd Rix.	52
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Copyright – Striking Similarity - Orrin Monroe Corwin v. Walt Disney Company.	62
	Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Can a music library preserve CDs by making a duplicate copy and continuing to circulate the originals?	63
	Biz of Acq Robert G. Kelly — Negotiating with a Contract Addendum - Robert has been working with contracts for online resources since the mid 1990s. After trying a variety of techniques, in 2002 he developed and deployed a contract addendum at the University of Michigan Kresge Business Administration Library.	65
	From the University Presses Sanford G. Thatcher — The Author’s Addendum - Does a publisher need to worry about the development and use of the author’s addendum?	66
	Bet You Missed It Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings – In the News - What do drinking and careers have in common? Read it here.	14
	Library Marketplace John Riley — Medium Rare Books, POD Wars, Instant Books Brought to you by Algorithms - When Forbes Library called in Sotheby’s to appraise the books in their rare book room, what they discovered was a surprise to all involved!	55
	Something To Think About Mary Tinker Massey — Sometimes It Hurts - People must understand that you care about them and can afford some simple changes in the face of grief.	64
	IMHBCO (pdf) Rick Anderson — In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion – Three Reasons I’m a Librarian - Ever wonder what Rick was doing when he was three years old to make him what he is today? Voila!	72
	Media Minder Philip Hallman — Unblanding Your Media Collection – Documentary Night in America - Blanding is a made-up word, or is it?	72
	End Users Speak Out: The Users Expectations! Adrian Tinsley — Bigger and Better Library Services - This new column talks to our end users and, as we all know, boy do they have opinions! Send suggestions for what you want to know from the end users!	74
	Little Red Herrings (pdf) Mark Herring — How Do You Like Your Librarianship: Straight-up or Blended? - We face numerous challenges today, most of them threatening to assume our place at the information-delivery table.	75
	As I See It! John Cox — Will Books Ever Go Out of Print? Printing Technology and the Future of the Book - While this process of attrition has continued, digital technology has transformed the production and distribution of books.	76
	Papa Abel Remembers Richard Abel — Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 6: 1959 – A Year of Uncertainty and Turmoil, Followed by Radical Change - And in 1960 the famous Richard Abel & Company, Inc. was born!	78
	Issues in Vendor Library Relations Bob Nardini — Open - There is a difference between an underlying principle and a specific proposal. Without at least having a few thoughtful things to say about open access and its Ranganathian cousin, fair use, vendors could lose the one kind of open access they’ve always understood.	80
	International Dateline Rita Ricketts, Bruce Strauch and Katina Strauch — From Fortress to Fairway - This charming article is a look at the recent donation of a large sum of money to the Bodleian Library in Oxford by Julian Blackwell, owner of Blackwell Book Services and the Blackwell’s Book Shops.	83
	Innovations Affecting Us Kristen DeVoe — What’s Greasemonkey, and Do I Want it in the Library? - What is a Greasemonkey script and how can libraries use it to promote library systems, services, and materials.	12
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ Greg Tananbaum — pub2web and MetaStore - This month, Greg interviews Louise Tutton, Head of Client Management for Ingenta.	84
	2008 Charleston Conference Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc.	8
	Charleston Conference Dates Future dates for Charleston Conferences through 2010.	12
	2008 Charleston Conference Opportunities to Participate Sponsorship, Juried Product Development Forum, and Advertising Information is now available at www.katina.info/conference/sponsorship.php.	14