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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
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| | Guest Editors, Michael J. Furlough and Patrick Alexander | |
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Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman) |
| | Purposeful Collaboration for Research Libraries and University Presses (pdf)
Michael J. Furlough — Collaborate? What do you mean? It is much easier to talk about collaboration and its potential benefits than to actually engage in it. | 1 |
| | University-based Publishing Partner-ships: A Guide to Critical Issues (pdf)
Raym Crow — Despite the commitment of many libraries and presses to launching digital publishing partnerships, such collaborations confront issues that limit their progress and slow their evolution. | 18 |
| | Local, Sustainable, and Organic Publishing: A Library-Press Collaboration at the University of California (pdf)
Catherine A. Mitchell and Laura Cerruti — The simple symbiosis between the library and the academic press looks increasingly like a matrix of competing interests, conflicting business models, and bewildered scholars watching the evaporation of book contracts. | 22 |
| | Learning to Say Maybe: Building NYU’s Press/Library Collaboration (pdf)
Monica McCormick — New York University is in the early stages of a joint program between the press and the NYU Libraries. As of this writing, the NYU Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing has existed for just over ten months. | 28 |
| | The Coefficient Partnership: Project Euclid, Cornell University Library and Duke University Press (pdf)
Terry Ehling and Erich Staib — One example of a successful library-press collaboration is Project Euclid. | 32 |
| | Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (pdf)
Sylvia Miller — Initiated by Kate Douglas Torrey, the Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement Project was based on some of the principles and challenges outlined by the widely read Ithaka report. | 36 |
| | Publisher–Library Relations: What Assets Does a University Press Bring to the Partnership? (pdf)
Patrick H. Alexander — What assets do university presses bring to the library–publisher partnership, and how might these interface with a university library’s strategic vision? | 40 |
| | Op Ed — Should Academic Libraries Ask for Bailout Too?!
Dr. Mehdi Kosrow-Pour, D.B.A. — One cannot underestimate the role that academic libraries play in these times. | 46 |
| | Back Talk (pdf)
Tony Ferguson — is just back from the 10th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CALIS. | 86 |
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| | Some Considerations in Selecting Scientific Journal Backfiles
Ann Bolek — This article covers some of the issues in selecting earlier content in electronic form and is intended for both librarians and publishers. | 47 |
| | reSearcher: The Open Source Solution for Managing Electronic Resources
Rachel A. Erb — reSearcher is open source software for libraries. | 52 |
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| | Steve McKinzie (pdf)
Breaking All The Rules: Library Renovation at Catawba College | 50 |
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| | Michael Furlough
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| | Catherine Mitchell
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| | Laura Cerruti
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| | Erich Staib
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| | Sylvia Miller
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| | Patrick Alexander
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month one of Tom’s selections include the Encyclopedia of Global Health. | 56 |
| | Book Reviews
Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings - In this issue, read reviews from two of USC’s librarians-to-be. | 58 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery |
| | Legally Speaking (pdf)
Bryan Carson — Is Open Source Software a Violation of Antitrust Law: Considering the Case of Wallace v. IBM - This is part one of a discussion of Open Source Software. | 62 |
| | Questions and Answers (doc)
Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Several faculty members at a state university have asked the library to make copies of videos borrowed from the library to send to the distance education students. May the library reproduce these videos to service distance education students? Lolly tells us. | 63 |
| | Biz of Acq
Bruce Strauch — Technology Trumps Tasini - Jerry Greenburg v. National Geographic Society. | 64 |
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| | From the University Presses
Xan Arch — Screencasting for Acquisitions - A screencast can be useful not just to teach a new process but to explain how to do an established process on a new software platform. | 66 |
| | Booklover
Sanford G. Thatcher — A Post-Mortem for Gutenberg-e: Or, Why Ross Atkinson’s Dream Is Still a Dream - What can we learn from the two experiments that were actually carried out and had the most to do directly with promoting the publishing of new electronic monographs, Gutenberg-e and the Humanities E-Book Project? | 67 |
| | Something to Think About
Donna Jacobs — Joy and Against the Grain - give a big welcome to Donna, who is one of two new columnists in this issue. | 72 |
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| | Future Tense
Mary (Tinker) Massey — Mixing it up Charleston Style - Tinker says one thing she learned this year, was that there is still a need to understand the basics of handling special collections and formats even though the digital technology steals the limelight. | 45 |
| | Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer — The Disapproval Plan: Rules-Based Weeding & Storage Decisions - Rick and Ruth believe that many elements of approval plan profiling can be adapted to much-needed de-selection and de-accessioning processes. | 76 |
| | As I See It
Carolyn Morris — Buying eBooks: Does Workflow Work? Part II - Carolyn says that choosing an eBook vendor is like predicting the future. | 77 |
| | Random Ramblings
John Cox — The Future of the Printed Monograph has Arrived - This one’s about the Espresso Book Machine. | 78 |
| | International Dateline
Bob Holley — Introductions - Bob is starting to contribute a column to ATG. In his first one, he tells us something about his long career. | 80 |
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| | I Hear the Train A Comin’
Rita Ricketts — On the Point of a Needle - In her latest article, Rita addresses the Blackwellian women. | 8 |
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| | Charleston Conference 2009
Cris Ferguson — Ravelry Revelry - A change of pace for Cris – from Kindle to Knitting … | 61 |
| | Technology Left Behind
Greg Tananbaum — All I Really Need to Know... - Borrowing from Robert Fulghum, Greg says that “All I Really Need to Know about Scholarly Communication I Learned in Kindergarten.” | 83 |
