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| | Rumors | 1 |
| | Deadlines | 6 |
| | From Your Editor | 6 |
| | Letters to the Editor | 7 |
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| | From Cancellations to Collaboration
Resource-sharing and collaboration among libraries is the silver lining in the serials crisis.
Susan Zappen advocates cooperation and collaboration with other libraries to meet user needs. | 1 |
| | Full Text Journal Subscriptions: An Evolutionary Process
by Judy Luther — 1997 is the year when there is suddenly a multitude of
options for electronic journal literature form primary and secondary publishers, subscription agents, and aggregators. Given the many
companies who announced new products at ALA Midwinter, this article attempts to provide an overview of the offerings prior to the
summer conference in San Francisco, and some ideas to consider as libraries examine their options. | 18 |
| | Here's Looking at
ADONIS Electronic Journal Subscriptions (EJS) service by Paul Ashton. | 26 |
| | The Book Becomes: From Collector to Author
by Jack Walsdorf — This id the story of two books and the twelve years that went
into producing them. Along the way you will hear of divorce, birth, and death. | 29 |
| | Op Ed--Opinions and Editorials
Alfred Gans reacts to Dan Tonkery's "Changing the Subscription Services Pricing Model," Do
Librarians Want Pricing Simplicity--Not Fairness. | 34 |
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| | Tim Collins
by Judy Luther — VP, Division General Manager, EBSCO Publishing | 36 |
| | John Regazzi
by Judy Luther — President and CEO--Engineering Information Village | 38 |
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us |
| | Judy Luther
Consultant, Ardmore, PA | 24 |
| | Sandra Whisler
U. of California Press | 58 |
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| | From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson has been hard at work reviewing new reference sources that deal with statistics and pure
facts as well as dictionaries and subject encyclopedias. A few of the more interesting include both brand new releases and updates and
revised editions of past works. | 40 |
| | Book Reviews
Ellen Duranceau reviews The Kennedy Women. | 44 |
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery |
| | Cases of note
by Anne Jennings — Horton hears a...? This case is about OJ Simpson & Dr. Seuss | 49 |
| | Legally Speaking
Copyright was a hot topic during 1996 and Virginia Seiser fills us in on some recent issues at ALA Midwinter | 52 |
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| | Publisher Bestsellers
University of Illinois Press | 54 |
| | International Dateline
Gita Gunatilleke tells us about some Oral History Collection in New Zealand | 56 |
| | Publishers Profile
Routledge, Inc. | 58 |
| | Librarians Looking at Publishers: Librarians' Reactions to Publisher Marketing Strategies
by Karen Schmidt — | 82 |
| | Papa Lyman Remembers
Retirement at University Presses | 83 |
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| | And They Were There
Reports of Meetings -- The Charleston Conference 1996 and the Faxon Institute are the subjects of this
months meeting reports | 59 |
| | Bet You Missed It
What do Emily Whaley, Peter Drucker, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England have in
common? They were all in articles selected by Sarah Tusa and her news sleuths... | 64 |
| | On The Street
Are You Still Keeping Paper Titles Even If You Have Electronic Access? | 69 |
| | Biz of Acq. -- It's Not Easy Being Green: Disposal of Unwanted Legal Materials
by William Benemann — | 70 |
| | Inside Pandora's Box: Issues in Management
A new column on collection development and acquisitions management ...
Fighting Wars on the Acquisitions Front: The Librarian as Battle General by Glenda Alvin. | 72 |
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates) |
| | Drinking From the Firehose
From Sex to Milk and Cookies: Pitfalls of Searching the World Wide Web by Eleanor J. Cook | 75 |
| | Innovations Affecting Us
DVD: The CD-ROM Phoenix. CD-ROM is dead. Long live CD ROM! When CD ROM first
appeared in 1985 , librarians received it enthusiastically because of its voluminous storage capacity, but it wasn't long before preferences
for graphics and text images, rather than ASCII text, caused database to grow exponentially. Norm Desmarals tells us more. | 76 |
| | Chaos
Standard Identities for Electronic Information by Albert Simmonds. Development of standard identifiers for electronic
publications must be informed by the needs of the publishers who will have the responsibility for assigning them. This development must
also take into account the processes of a wide range of of other entities in the information world whose needs will shape how the world of
information will operate in the twenty-first century. | 78 |
| | Media Minder
Philip Hallman is fascinated with the National Film Registry, films which have been recognized for their cultural,
historical, or aesthetic value and which, by virtue of their selection, hold the status of "national treasure." | 80 |
| | Doc Aquis
Elsie Pritchard (Morehead State U.) and Winn Theirl (U. of Kentucky Medical Center) want to know Have You
Heard? | 84 |
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| | Call for Ideas/Papers/Speakers, etc.
The 1997 Charleston Conference -- Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition: Learning from
our mistakes -- Nov. 6-8, 1997. | 14 |
| | Charleston Conference Registration
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| | The Search for a Short Stack
by Maragret Robb — Liz Chapman and Margret Robb traveled together from Oxford (England) to
Washington D.C. to attend the ALA Midwinter meeting -- as well as invitations to some of the best receptions and dinners. | 87 |
