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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
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Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman) |
| | Remembering 1968
Bruce Heterick — The long-term preservation of electronic journals is not just a “large research library problem.” It is a community problem that requires broad support across the spectrum of libraries. | 1 |
| | Spoilt for Choice
Maggie Jones — A Comparative Study of E-journal Archiving Solutions - Libraries wishing to move to e-only access face a major dilemma as they are aware that continued access is something that cannot necessarily be guaranteed to them for as long as they require it. | 18 |
| | Survey of Library Director Attitudes Toward Digital Preservation
Nancy Maron — This survey showed strong support for the concept of e-journal preservation, paired with the expressed belief that libraries themselves ought to take an active role and seemed to suggest that we would observe high levels of participation in e-journal preservation initiatives. | 26 |
| | Digital Preservation and the Small Academic Library
Marilyn Geller — Should a small academic library spend some of its collection development budget for Portico membership? Lesley University thought so. | 30 |
| | Not Alone: A Digital Preservation Community
Martha Anderson — The U.S. Congress recognized the increasingly digital nature of the creative output of the nation. Public Law 106-554 charged the Library of Congress with the leadership of a program to develop a national strategy to preserve digital content. | 34 |
| | What about E-books?
Toni Tracy — Between September 2007 and February 2008, six scholarly publishers and three commercial eBook aggregators were interviewed and asked about various aspects of their eBook publishing and distribution activities. | 40 |
| | Supporting a Paperless Future
Carol Richman and Jayne Marks — There is cost associated with secure preservation of content. Each program must be carefully dissected to ensure a long-term budget strategy. | 46 |
| | Op Ed – Little Red Herrings
Mark Herring — Kicking a Gift Horse in the Mouth - $100 million has been handed to us to infuse new blood into our graying and some would say, dying, profession of librarianship. Have we greeted it with our hands over our mouths? | 54 |
| | Back Talk — In the X Movie (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — Will POD change the publishing world forever? | 94 |
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| | Libraries as Publishers; Publishers as Libraries – Where Do We Go From Here? (pdf)
Tony Horava — As libraries and publishers, how do our respective sets of values lead us consciously – or not so consciously – to approach opportunities and reinvent our roles in particular ways? | 46 |
| | An MLS by Any Other Name
Jeanette C. Smith and Elizabeth A. Titus — Through a collegial process, the New Mexico State University Library achieved its goal of defining equivalency and degree requirements for hiring its next generation of library faculty. | 52 |
| | Linking Collections and Readers: Some Possibilities for Collaboration
Richard Hume Werking — This is about the Janus Conference in October 2005 and is a revised version of Richard’s paper given at the Charleston Conference November 7, 2007. | 56 |
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| | Helen Parr (pdf)
Ramune K. Kubilius — McGraw Hill, Executive Editor, Medical | 14 |
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| | Bruce Heterick
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| | Maggie Jones
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| | Nancy Maron
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| | Marilyn Geller
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| | Martha Anderson
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| | Toni Tracy
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| | Carol Richman
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month one of Tom’s reviews includes the Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus. | 62 |
| | Book Reviews
Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, enjoy a pair of reference titles. | 63 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
Bruce Strauch — Copyright: Open Source Software for Your HO-Gauge Fantasy World - Robert Jacobsen v. Matthew Katzer, United States court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. | 65 |
| | Questions and Answers
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Are student works submitted for courses considered to be owned by the institution that is awarding course credit? This and other important questions are answered by Lolly. | 66 |
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| | Biz of Acq
Xan Arch — The Wiki of Acq 2: Outreach from Acquisitions to Collections Staff Using a Wiki - This is Xan’s second article describing Stanford’s use of a wiki to improve acquisitions services. | 68 |
| | From the University Presses
Sanford Thatcher — The Value Added by Copyediting - Very little attention has been paid to date to the importance of copyediting. | 69 |
| | And They Were There
Sever Bordeianu — Reports of Meetings - ER&L, SALALM, DigIn – Digital Preservation Conference, plus all the remaining Reports from the 2007 (27th) Charleston Conference compiled by Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters. | 71 |
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| | Lost in Austin
Tom Leonhardt — Life on the Water - This is a different kind of book review. It’s about water and conch shells and family. | 12 |
| | Media Minder
Philip Hallman — Interview with Ursula Schwarz, Executive Director of the National Media Market - The National Media Market is a forum for library media selectors to evaluate materials prior to purchase. | 82 |
| | Something To Think About
Mary Tinker Massey — Preparing for November - Whether you learn about the sessions at the Charleston Conference before you arrive or upon receipt of the program, you must sit down and examine those you are interested in hearing beforehand. | 83 |
| | Papa Abel Remembers
Richard Abel — Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 7: Life After Reed College - The continuing story of the evolution of Richard Abel, Bookseller. | 84 |
| | Issues in Vendor Library Relations
Carolyn Morris — Buying eBooks: Does Workflow Work? Part I - eBooks add yet another layer or two of complexity to the acquisition process because they behave differently depending on how they are hosted and because the relationship with the eBook provider extends beyond the “shipping” of content. | 85 |
| | As I See It
John Cox — Thinking About the System of Balances in Copyright Law - A short history of copyright. Says John – “Today, as the film and software industries are dominated by US firms, the US is most assiduous at protecting copyright. It is ironic that that the pirate has become a policeman.” | 86 |
| | Future Tense
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — Weeding: The Time is Now - Wonder what happened to I, User? Well it has evolved into Future Tense and, even better, weeding is fascinating airplane reading, say Rick and Ruth. | 87 |
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| | Technology Left Behind
Cris Ferguson — Clicking Towards Information Literacy - Applications of clickers within a library setting are only just beginning to be explored. | 80 |
| | Standards Column (pdf)
Todd Carpenter — Culture Shock: International Standardization Projects Effecting Publishers and Libraries — A Report of ISO TC 46 Activities - Many people observing standards development perceive it to be labyrinthine and confusing. This is doubly true of standards work that takes place at the international level in ISO (International Organization for Standardization). | 89 |
| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Greg Tananbaum — A Tale of Two Cities - Building on the Charleston Conference 2008 theme (Best of Times, Worst of Times), Greg cleverly looks at some key passages from A Tale of Two Cities and how they map to scholarly communication issues. | 92 |
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| | International Dateline
Rita Ricketts — From London’s East End to the Dreaming Spires of Oxford - How did it come to pass, Rita asks, that the son of a jobbing tailor from London came to Oxford and became a bookman? | 90 |
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| | Adventures in Librarianship
Ned Kraft — Heroes - Thank goodness Ned is back tickling our funny bones! | 8 |
