AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.9 # 4 September 1997 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Reference Publishing Guest Editor, Tom Gilson (College of Charleston)
	Reference Material So Many Choices, So Little Money: Librarians and Publishers Speak Out! By Frances Wilkinson. The book and serials industry has recently witnessed a proliferation of reference materials. At a time when reference and collection development librarians have many more choices than ever before, they also have less buying power than ever before! To address these issues, and interview-style joint discussion among librarians responsible for reference selection and publishers/editors of reference materials was held. Their differing perspectives were highly significant because of what they reveal about the industry as a whole.	1
	Electronic and Print: A Merger in the Making Tom Gilson — A symbiotic relationship is developing between information	22
	Notes from the Jurassic Bob Balay — What is a reference book? Who is it that loves reference books? And where is the market	24
	Op-Ed-Opinions and Editorials Our Non-Electronic Future by Gordon Graham. The so-called electronic revolution is now old enough to have history which, when analyzed, will show that it was not a revolution, but a series of technical innovations, designed to cope with information en masse and its transmission at high speed.	28
	Back Talk by Tony Ferguson — Chemical Warfare and Frog Soup! What can Chemistry and other libraries faced with keeping up with STM journals price increases do?	94
	Todd Hallman By Ron Chepsiuk — Acquisitions Editor---ABC Clio	30
	Colin Jones Katina Strauch — President and Publisher-Routledge USA	34
	Gail Schlachter Katina Strauch — President and Founder, Reference Service Press	38
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Robert Richards (U. of Colorado Law Library)	42
	Janet Fisher (MIT Press)	58
	From the Reference Desk Reviews of Grove's Dictionary of Art and other reference materials are included in this month's column	44
	Book Reviews From Print to Electronic: The Transformation of Scientific communication and Directory of Government Document Collections & Librarians are the subjects of this month's book reviews.	51
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	A Feast of Formats by Robert Richards, Jr — Challenges to Choosing the Right Medium for Legal Information The consolidation of the legal publishing industry, the permanent shift of some print resources to electronic form only, the rise of electronic monographs, the appearance of novel online resources, the prospect of a successor to CD-ROM, and a heightened cost-consciousness in law libraries pose significant challenges to making effective format selection choices.	52
	Marketing to Libraries by Barry Lee —	42
	Book Pricing Update By Tom Loughran — Trends in Publishing by Broad Subject Area-1996/97	58
	Publisher Bestsellers University of Chicago Press	60
	Inside Booklist by Irving Rockwood —	62
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings--The VII Transborder Library Forum, NFAIS, and ALA "post-outsourcing" meetings	65
	Bet you Missed It What so popcorn, search engines, and tenure have in common? They were all in articles selected by Sarah Tusa and her news sleuths.	70
	Group Therapy Late Fees and Overdue Charges Sandy Beehler has queried librarians and vendors about this practice	74
	On the Street Are you Outsourcing... and, If So, What?	76
	Papa Lyman Remembers Pubishers of the Twenieth Century	78
	Biz of Acq by Terri-Leigh Hinkle — Teaching Acquisitions	80
	Inside Pandoras Box On colleciton development and acquisitons management;;; The Pros and Cons of a University Library Department for Acquisitions by Eric Cooper	81
	Issues in Vendor-Library Relations Softer and Softer software. Barry Fast says that the motivations to be first to market with a new technology , new software, a new product is so powerful because it accomplishes several goals at the same time.	83
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Innovations affecting Us Technology to Learn Anytime Anywhere Educators at all levels have begun to explore using laptop computer because of their greater flexibility for use inside and outside of the classroom.	84
	Doc Aquis The Review driven Purchase Plan at Detroit Public Library by Robert Chapman. In response to dissatisfaction with the materials make available for purchase, staff a the Detroit Publica Library undertook a series of changes that substantially altered the way materials are selected and acquired.	86
	Chaos Standard Indentifiers in the Electronic Environment--Further Developments by Albert Simmonds. Publishers are at a crucial stage in the development of their electronic publishing strategy and that is is important for strong product identifiers to be developed for this environment.	89
	Wandering the Web by Barbara Stewart — Latin American Web Sites for Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians	90
	Charleston Conference Registration	49
	You Gotta Go to School for That? Beau Geste at the Reference Desk--Get ready to Laugh! Jerry Seay is back!!!	92