AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.7 # 2 April 1995 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	7
	New Products and Resources	26
	Reality in the Age of the Virtual: Experiences on the Threshold of the Electronic Library by Heather Miller — Many have joyfully embraced the concept of the electronic library, just one more chapter in the evolution of the academic library.	1
	Interesting Problems Encountered On My Way To Writing an Electronic Information Collection Development Statement by Anthony W. Ferguson — Is there value in written collection development policy statements, especially about electronic resources?	16
	Electronic Resources in New Zealand University Libraries by Gita Gunatilleke — A perspective from a librarian on another continent. The same, only different . . .	20
	Collection Development for Electronic Material Carolyn Harker — The ALA RASD CODES Collection Policies Committee has done some work in this area and so has Carolyn Harker.	21
	Op Ed Mr. Hamaker has an opinion — Selecting CD-ROMs in Electronic Libraries	23
	On the Street We surveyed some of you to find out what you are doing about electronic resources. Here are the results . . .	25
	Remembrances It's important to remember our colleagues. Jolanda von Hagen, Liz Futas and Jim Cameron.	82
	Bob Campbell Liz Chapman interviewed him in England recently. — Managing Director, Blackwell Science A scientist by training, Bob Campbell joined Blackwell Scientific Publishing in 1968.	30
	Dan Tonkery President & CEO, Readmore, Inc. The incredible Mr. Tonkery, who almost began life as a doctor . . .	33
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	John Archer (UC-San Diego)	46
	Rosann Bazirjian (Syracuse University)	65
	Barbara Dean (Fairfax (VA) County Public Library)	88
	Book Pricing Update While the combined Social Sciences increased steadily in price each year, fewer than half of the subcategories inched steadily upward.	42
	From the Reference Desk by Tom Gilson — This NEW column by Tom Gilson will carry reviews, news and an occasional interview relating to the world of reference and reference publishing	44
	Book Review Literary Reflections by James A. Michener	46
	Cases of Note by Anne Jennings. — Legal opinions of interest to ATG readers	48
	Issues in Vendor-Library Relations Barry Fast talks about productivity, using outside contractors for technical services, and OCLC's PromptCat.	50
	Library Bestsellers The goal of this column is to share bibliographies of highly used items. With this issue, Joanne Schmidt looks at what's changed at Emerson College since their top 40 circulating titles was published in the June, 1993 issue of ATG. . .	52
	Marketing to Libraries A Discussion with John Secor and Gary Shirk of Yankee Book Peddler	54
	Publisher Bestsellers Best selling titles from Penn State Press	56
	Publisher Profile University Press of New England	57
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings -- IFLA and name changes in ALA Preservation Committees	58
	Bet You Missed It What do Jane Austen and Peter Drucker have in common? Read what Rosann Bazirjian and her staff have culled from the literature to find out!	62
	The BISG Sees No Increase in Trade Book Sales from Growth of Chain-Based Super Bookstores by Nat Bodian —	65
	Biz of Acq Outsourced Acquisitions: Let's Meet the Challenge . . .	66
	International Dateline Liz Chapman tells us about the UK-based provider of bibliographic data services, BIDS, and Dieke van Wijnen explains ECUP, the European Copyright User Platform	70
	Papa Lyman Remembers The Effect of the GI Bill on Publishing	72
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Innovations Affecting Us ISI's Electronic Library	28
	Chaos There is a major difference between what publishers consider to be their "publication patterns" and the publication patterns found in library systems.	74
	DOC AQUIS . . . a column reporting on news and developments relating to acquisitions and document delivery -- This issue has a report on some of the news in the pipeline.	76
	Drinking From the Firehose Should electronic lists be closed or open to all? Eleanor Cook outlines some of the issues .	79
	Group Therapy Have you ever used one vendor's forms to order from another vendor? Do you feel guilty about it?	80
	Not Fit For Print Gingrich in Cyberspace and the Architecture of Information	86
	Call for Papers The 1995 Charleston Conference	0
	On the Road Funny stories about happenings to people traveling in the library, vending, and publishing world.	84
	You Gotta Go To School For That? How Jerry Seay sees life is not like us mortals.	89