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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 7 |
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| | Annual Report Introduction
Guest Editor, Thomas W. Leonhardt ( U. of Oklahoma Libraries) — | 8 |
| | Against the Grain Annual Report Survey
compiled by Barry Lee and Judy Lee (Research and Reference Services) — | 16 |
| | A Curmudgeonly View of The Year in Acquisitions
by Heather Miller — What characterized this year, 1996, in acquisitions? One
could make a case for this being the year of MORE. | 21 |
| | Annual Report for 1996 from UK Libraryland
The indefatigable and very funny Liz Chapman exposes some little British tidbits. | 48 |
| | Op Ed--Changing the Subscription Services Pricing Model
By Dan Tonkery — At the 1996 Charleston Conference some of
the most heated debates among both the subscription vendors and attendees centered around implementation of added charges on
non-discount titles. | 65 |
| | Back Talk
It's 2002 and Tony Ferguson uses Euroinformation, Inc. to define his world of the future and it's pretty scary with Alfred
Von Neustadt, Angela Pelligrini, Jack Kim, and, last by not least, Chucky Baconer. | 78 |
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| | John Perry Barlow
Ron Chepesiuk — From Grateful Dead and Electronic Frontier Foundation fame. | 1 |
| | Keith Schmeidl
Katina Strauch — President of Coutts Library Service about his more than twenty years in the business. | 55 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Another good year has passed for reference publishing. Electronic reference sources from the WWW
to CD ROMs to online fulltext databases began to fulfill their promise, while high quality print sources continued to by published. One has
not replaced the other as some had predicted and others had feared. Tom Gilson gives us a review. | 57 |
| | Book Reviews
Tom Leonhardt reviews" Books, Bricks, and Bytes" and "Buildings, books, and bytes." | 62 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
This month you can read about a case between two medical publishers and another one with John Grisham as a
defendant. The subject is -guess what- infringement of copyright. | 67 |
| | Legally Speaking--The Copyshop Coursepack, Not Fair use in the Sixth Circuit
by Anne Klinefelter — "Multiple copies for
classroom use" is listed in section 107 of the Copyright Code as a example of fair use reproduction of copyrighted works, but the Sixth
Circuit in November of 1996 held that a commercials copy service's copying and selling of coursepacks without copyright owners
permission was not fair use. The decision, Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, 99 F. 3d 1381 (6th cir., 1996) is
in line with a 1991 New York federal district. | 70 |
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| | Things That Keep Me Awake At Night
By Karen Hunter — Based on a presentation make at the 1996 Charleston Conference,
Nov. 7, 1996 | 40 |
| | A Case Study in E-Journal Developments: The Scandinavian Position
by Harald Joa — This article is based on a paper
presented at the Third European Serials Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 25-27 September 1996 | 43 |
| | Book Pricing Update
The World of Academic Books--What are we talking about? What is academic? What is a monograph?
What is new? Here with some definitions--courtesy of Celia Wagner. | 50 |
| | The Current Price Situation, 1996
The always alert Frederick C. Lynden talks about trends for library materials prices in 1996. | 52 |
| | Publisher Profile
Edward Elgar Publishing | 54 |
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| | 1996: A Booksellers View of the Year
by Daniel Halloran — Bookselling to academic libraries in 1996 saw the old and the new,
trends we have lived with for years and trends that hint at the future. The big news was booksellers and other library service providers
creating new tools for librarians to help control expenditures, perform tasks, and to change the way those tasks are performed. | 27 |
| | 1996: Moving Closer to Clarity Through Dialog
Lynne Branche Brown's perceptive is about achieving operational efficiencies
and combining strengths to help consortia of libraries. | 31 |
| | Library/Vendor Relationships
Focusing on the University Presses' need to Collaborate with Librarians and Their Vendors--John
Secor. | 38 |
| | Bet You Missed It
Are you concerned about privacy on the Internet? Or maybe the difference between reading and eating? Look
at what our staff has found--In the News! | 72 |
| | Papa Lyman Remembers
The Importance of Publishers' Archives. | 76 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Collections & Technology Trends in Academic Libraries 1996/97
by Corrie Marsh (Ovid Technologies, Inc.) — | 22 |
| | The Lame Duck Decade: Observations
by Kim Long (The American Forecaster) — Even during the best of times, the future is an
elusive enigma, impossible to define in advance but at the same time too tantalizing not to try. | 25 |
| | 1996: Collection Development and The Carleston Conference Expand to Include the Wide World of Electronics Options
It was inevitable that online services and publications would make their way into the forefront of collection development says
Rebecca Lenzini. | 28 |
| | Technology and its Implications for Serials Acquisition
Clifford Lynch is concerned that libraries, overwhelmed with the
financial dimensions of the serials crisis, may be making some unrealistic assumptions in trying to create a technical delivery system that
will be acceptable to end users. | 34 |
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| | Call for Ideas/Papers/Speakers, etc.
The 1997 Charleston Conference--Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition: Great
Expectations. | 54 |
