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AGAINST THE GRAIN: November 1995 (v.7 # 5)

AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.7 # 5 November 1995 © Katina Strauch

 

 Rumors1
 Deadlines6
 From Your Editor6
 Letters to the Editor7
   
 Networks and Primary Sources
A View from Steven Ellis — Electronic Text Librarian at Penn State University
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 Electronic Journal Access for Libraries
What Some Companies Are Doing To Help -- Part I Frances C. Wilkinson spoke with CatchWord, OCLC and Elsevier.
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 Faster than a Fast Thing
The Institute of Physics Publishing's efforts in electronic publishing date back to 1992 and John Long tells us about them.
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 Op Ed
Mere Words along the Superhighway -- Sex and Cyberspace by William J. Hamilton, III
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 On the Street
In this issue we asked you about The Effect of Electronic Access to Periodicals on ILL
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 James T. Stephens
President and CEO, EBSCO Industries, Inc.
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  Nat Bodian
Publisher's Marketing Consultant
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Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
 Sandy Paul
(SKP Associates)
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 Judy Webster
(U. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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 Heather Miller
(SUNY Albany)
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 Letter from Oklahoma
Bookish or Boorish? Are librarians interested in the content of Books. Read what Mr. Leonhardt has to say.
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 Book Pricing Update
In this issue, Celia gives us her second annual title trends survey.
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 From the Reference Desk
A number of useful and interesting reference books have crossed Tom Gilson 's desk.
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 Book Reviews
by Philip W. Leon — Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician
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 Testdriving CD-ROMs is a look at Books in Print Plus
by Ken Kister — The introduction of a NEW ATG column!
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 Cases of Note
Anne Jennings talks about cases involving Walt Disney, the University of Houston, and Digital Technology
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 Publisher Bestsellers
Best selling titles from the University of Iowa Press
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 Publisher Profile
Infosources Publishing
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 And They Were There
Reports of Meetings -- This issue has some great reports on Multimedia Now, SHARP, SALALM , the New England CDMI, and NASIG.
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 Bet You Missed It
Read how some of the issues that we grapple with day-to-day have been covered in the literature.
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 Biz of Acq
Confused about looseleaf publications? Welcome to the club.
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 Library Profile
by Donna L. Ferullo — Social Work Library -- Boston College
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 Marketing to Libraries
Vikki Medaglia interviewed Suzanne Schmitz, Vice President, Academic Market, NewsBank, Inc.
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Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
 Innovations Affecting Us
Judy Luther has given us A Buyers' Guide to the Exhibits of ALA, MLA, and SLA.
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 Chaos
This month Bob Boissy tells us about Mapping: The Selection of Standard Data Elements
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 DOC AQUIS
News about new developments with Subscribe96, Ameritech, OCLC, EBSCO, SIRSI, DataTrek, ISI, IAC, and Faxon.
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 Drinking From the Firehose
What do Windows '95, The Internet and the WWW Have in Common?
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 Media Minder
The Toronto International Film Festival is the subject of this Media Minder.
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 Issues in Vendor/Library Relations
This is a look at Acquisitions at the Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa.
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 How An Approval Plan Saved the Life of a Child
Gretchen Peterson has been writing for management
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 On the Road
Don Jaeger gets us another funny travel story.
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 You Gotta Go To School For That
This one's about Library Uniforms.
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