AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.21 # 2 April 2009 © Katina Strauch

Taking Charge: Preserving Our Digital Heritage Part II

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editor, Amy Kohrman
Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman)
	Taking Charge: Preserving Our Digital Heritage Part II by Amy Kohrman — This is the second of two ATG issues in which all the participants have the firm desire to ensure the survival of e-content for future generations.	1
	Preserving Digital Public Television Nan Rubin — Preparing for the Broadcast Afterlife - For video in particular, acceptable practices to save and access very large files, manage ever-changing file formats, and maintain rich metadata are just now emerging.	16
	From Dark Archive to Open Access: CLOCKSS Trigger Event Lessons Victoria Reich — What is a trigger event and when do these materials become available to us?	24
	Federal Depository Library Program: Services and Collections James A. Jacobs — The need for wresting control away from those who wish to control the access to and the use of information has not changed in the digital world. But the battle lines have changed and we need librarians in the fight to keep free, open, usable access.	28
	CRL’s Long-lived Digital Collections Project Bernie Reilly — Working to Provide Member Libraries Peace-of-mind - The creation and collection of massive amounts of digital data in the humanities, sciences and social sciences today is creating stewardship demands that cannot be met fully by traditional libraries and archiving organizations.	34
	Unchartered Territory Julie Sweetkind-Singer — Building a Network for the Archiving of Geospatial Images and Data - Digital geospatial data are different from any other type of data. How can it be preserved?	36
	The PeDALS Project Richard Pearce-Moses — The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) project is a research project that seeks to articulate a curatorial rationale that describes an automated workflow for processing collections of digital archives and publications.	40
	A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication Micah Altman, Bryan Beecher, and Jonathan Crabtree (with Leonid Andreev, Ed Bachman, Adam Buchbinder, Steve Burling, Patrick Kin — Many “single points of failure” are eliminated when the institutions involved are diversified.	44
	Op Ed – Pelikan’s Antidisambiguation Michael P. Pelikan — The Kindle is the 8-track Tape Player of the eBook Age - Our current way of moving e-content around is transitional, Michael says. We like to think we’re living in the Modern Age, but really we’re living in the Old Days!	48
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — Silence is Golden if You are in the Market for a Dead Library - This month Tony takes a look at the value of silent areas in the library.	86
	Kent D. Lee CEO, EastView Information Services	50
	Dennis Brunning talks with Sue Polanka Head of Reference Services, Wright State University, and No Shelf Required Blogger	67
	Nan Rubin	22
	Victoria Reich	26
	James A. Jacobs	30
	Bernard F. Reilly	32
	Julie Sweetkind-Singer	38
	Richard Pearce-Moses	42
	Micah Altman	47
	Bryan Beecher	47
	Jonathan Crabtree	47
	Kent D. Lee	52
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month Tom has reviewed some African American selections.	52
	Book Reviews Deb Vaughn — Monographic Musings - This month, explore the Internet through different lenses.	54
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note — Copyright (pdf) Bruce Strauch — Delusion Doth Not an Infringement Make and I Know You’ve Got My Money. Give It To Me. - Have you been to the movies lately?	57
	Questions and Answers (doc) Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Copyright of photos is just one of the issues discussed in this Against the Grain.	58
	Biz of Acq Xan Arch — RSS for Acq - A sampling of tools and uses for RSS in Acquisitions is here!	59
	From the University Presses (pdf) Sanford G. Thatcher — The Hidden Digital Revolution in Scholarly Publishing: POD, SRDP, the “Long Tail,” and Open Access - Digital printing has spawned a whole new way of thinking about publishing, which breaks down the “life cycle” of a book into discrete segments.	60
	Random Ramblings Bob Holley — “Petit pois” and Publication - What do small green peas and scholarly communication/publication have in common?	64
	Booklover Donna Jacobs — Concepts of a Con, the Chase and Chaos - This month Donna tries to “con” us through three books she just read.	65
	Building Library Collections in the 21st Century Arlene Sievers-Hill — The New Organization Librarian - How will a new political organization, economic order, and financial cataclysms affect the university and public libraries?	66
	@Brunning: People & Technology Dennis Brunning — At the only Edge that Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do - Dennis talks with Sue Polanka, super-blogger @ No Shelf Required.	67
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings – 14th National ACRL and 2008 Charleston Conference - In this issue Bob Holley has provided us with a report on the 14th National ACRL Conference and there’s more from Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters on the 2008 Charleston Conference.	69
	Bet You Missed It Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings – In the News - What do cocktails and literature have in common? Read it here.	12
	Something to Think About Mary (Tinker) Massey — Has Technology Changed You? - Has technology made us more isolated?	56
	Lost in Austin Thomas W. Leonhardt — You Are What You Read - No one can be objective when it comes to reading books.	72
	Issues in Vendor/Library Relations Robin Champieux — The Data Train: Can We Share the Track? - At the 2008 Charleston Conference, there was a lively lunch to discuss the Library of Congress’ call for increased collaboration among everyone involved in the process of creating, collecting, and maintaining bibliographic data.	74
	Drinking From the Firehose (pdf) Eleanor I. Cook — Fun With Facebook - It’s important to find a niche and stick with it. We cannot all be active on all these sites, nor would we want to be.	75
	Little Red Herrings (pdf) Mark Y. Herring — But a Whimper - More worries about the Google Book Deal and ten reasons why Mark fears for the longevity of libraries.	76
	International Dateline — Adventures In Publishing Rita Ricketts — New Campus, New Library - This one tells the story of Blackwell’s beginnings in publishing.	78
	International Dateline — American University in Cairo Matthew Ismail — You Only Live Twice - The new Cairo campus is quite beautiful and interesting says Matthew, and he’s provided the photos to prove it.	81
	Far From the Maddening Crowd Xan Arch — Working to Solve the Problems of Name Authority – The International Standard Name Identifier and Other Projects - This one’s about Second Life ...	14
	Standards Column (pdf) Todd Carpenter — Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Tomorrow - Identifying the author of a resource has been critical to efficient operation of a library for as long as there have been libraries. And there are numerous disparate projects underway.	82
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ Greg Tananbaum — 29th Annual Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition - In this issue, Greg looks at the future of institutional respositories.	84
	Charleston Conference 2009 Call For Papers, Ideas, Conference Themes, etc....	8
	Charleston Conference Future Dates	12