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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 7 |
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| | Money Talks: But Can It Listen?
How We Found Out What Our Faculty Really Read by Robin Lent, Louise Buckley, and David
Lane. Anyone who has to prepare a budget for Library materials knows that feeling of wondering if this is going to be the year when it
isn't going to work. | 1 |
| | Balancing Information needs with Serials Value and Costs
by Linda Brown — There may not be a single "right" way to set
priorities are set and articulated. | 22 |
| | JSTOR--A Non-Profit Working to Redefine Access to the Scholarly Journals
Ron Chepsiuk takes a look. | 29 |
| | And Katina Strauch has a Conversation with Kevin Guthrie
Executive Director, JSTOR | 31 |
| | Op Ed--Opinions and Editorials-3 takes on the Future of the Book
by Julia Gelfand — Several publications were issued in recent
months that assessed and predicted what is happening with the book, the monograph, the scholarly item libraries acquire and retain
anticipating what kind of readership will be attracted to it and hope that it will sustain generations of readers to come. This is a subject
near and dear to our hearts. | 32 |
| | Back Talk
Tony Ferguson talks about Consortia Mania and some of the issues that emerged at the Consortium of Consortia
meeting in St. Louis in February where representatives of the largest library consortia in the United States, contracting for digital forms of
information, and the publishers and vendors of such products came together for three days to exchange information. | 86 |
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| | Jim Ulsamer
President-Baker & Taylor Books | 36 |
| | Joesph Andrews
Head of Collection Development and Acquisitions-U. of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL. | 37 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Linda Brown
Head of Collection Management--Bowling Green State University | 28 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson has been hard at work reviewing monographic bibliographies and subject encyclopedias. | 40 |
| | Book Reviews
Ellen Duranceau reviews An Italian Education | 44 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of Note
By Anne Jennings — Fair Use--Los Angeles News Service v. KCAL-TV Channel 9. | 47 |
| | The Continuing Evolution of Copyright Law
by John Cox — There continues to be much debate about the applicability of copyright and other legal regulation-to electronic publications within the
academic community. | 49 |
| | Legally Speaking
In the fall of 1996, the American Association of Law Libraries Copyright Committee made final the Model Law
Firm Copyright Policy, a document which consists of suggested guidelines which would promote law firm compliance with US Copyright
Law. | 50 |
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| | Book Pricing Update
This month, Celia is Adjusting for Inflation | 53 |
| | Letter from Oklahoma--Editing and Writing, Writing and Editing
by Tom Leonhardt — If you think writing for professional
journals is a thankless job, you should try editing. | 54 |
| | Publisher Bestsellers
Rutgers University Press | 55 |
| | Irving E. Rockwood
Editor and Publisher, takes us inside CHOICE. | 56 |
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| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings--The LOEX conference is the subject of this month's meeting report | 61 |
| | Bet You Missed It!
Do you know about the Personal Digital Assistant or about the treaty on database rights? | 62 |
| | Group Therapy
Grian McLaughlin's "gripe" relates to orders that need to be prepaid by the vendor. | 64 |
| | On The Street
How Do You Use Book Reviews? | 66 |
| | Papa Lyman Remembers
Lyman Newlin's incredible memory is again fixed on Publishers' Archives--Part II. | 68 |
| | Issues in Vendor-Library Relations
Barry Fast discusses The Lessons of Hawaii. | 69 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Acquiring Minds Want to Know
The Fulltext Question: A Study in Progress. Corinne Ebbs and Laurie Preston approached the
question of whether electronic fulltext is a viable means of accessing journal literature. | 70 |
| | Biz of Acq--COIN--Columbia Online Information Network
is the subject of this article by Marilyn McLeod. | 71 |
| | Brodart's Tips
is the Subject of this month's DOC AQUIS by Elsie Pritchard and Winn Theirl. | 73 |
| | Chaos--In Unique Identifiers: A Brief Introduction
Brian Green and mark Bide seek both to explain some of the significant issues
in the debate and to describe some of the standards. | 75 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
Judy Luther has been hard at work studying News Services to the Desktop--the growing number of
companies who offer news services electronically delivered via the Web directly to the computer screen. | 79 |
| | Nouvelle Cuisine
The Windows95 of Change by Nancy K. Dennis. Why is there such a rush to embrace Win95? | 83 |
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| | Call for Ideas/Papers/Speakers, etc.
The 1997 Charleston Conference--Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition: Great
Expectations. | 84 |
