AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.9 # 5 November 1997 © Katina Strauch

Charleston Conference Issue

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Outsourcing in American Libraries-An Overview by Sever Bordeianu and Claire-Lise Benaud — Outsourcing is one of those issues that riles people. Two reactions are guaranteed when the topic comes up: librarians always have an opinion about it , and everybody has an outsourcing story to tell.	1
	Outsourcing "Down Under" by Allison Grant — Allison Grant has queried her colleagues in Australia and New Zealand regarding their use of outsourcing.	22
	An Experiment in Outsourcing at the College of Charleston Libraries by Katie Bielsky — Over the past several years, the College of Charleston has had an increase in student enrollment. As is being done elsewhere, the Library has begun to look for methods to increase productivity without any expected increase in staff in order to prevent accumulating a large backlog of uncatalogued materials.	24
	Op-Ed---Opinions and Editorials-- The $160 Million Question: What Happens to the Federal Money Paid for Research by Albert Henderson — The only major Federal financing of academic library collections is justified as one of the indirect costs of sponsored research. The government pays $4 billion as its "fair share" of expenditures underlying $8 billion direct costs of research contracted to universities. These indirect costs are divided almost equally between administration and facilities. A tiny fraction supports libraries.	28
	Against the Grain Annual Report Survey FILL THIS OUT!!!!	46
	Back Talk by Tony Ferguson — Gear Shifter or Cogs in the Gears? Are we librarians the people shifting the gears from how information is acquired, processed, stored and preserved now, to how it will be done in the future or are we some loose nuts and bolts in the gears, trying to stop or slow down the process?	94
	Gary Herald Katina Strauch — President, Ambassador Book Service	30
	Robert Franklin by Ron Chepesiuk — President--McFarland &Co.,Inc., Publishers	32
	Nigel Farrow Katina Strauch — President--Ashgate Publishing	34
	From the Reference Desk Plenty more reference reviews	37
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Continuing the Debate: New Protocols for Scholarly Communication by John Cox —	44
	Legally Speaking Lloyd Rich discusses Who Controls Electronic Rights--The Writer of the Publisher?	47
	Cases of Note Anne’s been hard at work reading cases on Copyright Registration	51
	Juris Libris Anna Wyatt tells us about Building an Estate Planning Collection for the Pro Se Patron -- that’s the patron who wants to find information him or herself.	54
	Publishers Bestsellers University Press of Kentucky	56
	Book Pricing Update Expensive Titles Charles Wittenberg tells us that Blackwell’s North American Approval Plan in 1996-1997 made available to customers 827 items with list prices over $200 (average price:$294). That was only 1.9% of the titles handled but represented, potentially, 10.2% of the total cost of approval books.	60
	Oregon Trails Tom Leonhardt has moved to Oregon and is talking about Poetry this month.	61
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings--UKSG, and SALALM.	63
	Bet You Missed It! What do "slinky theory," sports statistics and Richard Abel have in common? Check out this month’s Bet You Missed It!	65
	Papa Lyman Remembers Deadlines	68
	Group Therapy Jane Clarkson wants to know: "How do you check in e-journals?"	68
	On the Street Book Vendors and Services to Libraries	70
	In the Praise of Bookshops Claire Fund interviews rare booksellers--Lin and Tucker Respess	72
	Outsourcing "Down Under" Allison Grant has queried her colleagues in Australia and New Zealand regarding their use of outsourcing.	22
	International Dateline Gita Gunatilleke tells us about some special materials from New Zealand.	76
	Time of Troubles by Ron Chepesiuk — An Interview with Wes McCann about Northern Ireland Libraries	78
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Back to the Future: At Last Librarians Chart a New Course in Scholarly Electronic Publishing High Wire Press, an enterprise unit of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, is charting new waters as co-publishers of low-cost, graphically-rich Internet editions of University and scholarly society e-journals.	80
	It is Time to Become Discriminating Consumers by Peter B. Boyce — Its time to become more sophisticated. As the magic of receiving scholarly journals (or even just the tables of contents) from the WWW wears off, we, as consumers of electronic information, have to wipe the stars from our eyes and take a hard look at what is being offered under the rubric of "electronic journal".	86
	Innovations Affecting Us by Judy Luther — Second Generation Online Systems from Book Vendors	88
	Doc Aquis This one’s about Doody’s Review Service.	90
	Chaos Sandy Paul talks about Electronic Data Interchange-- An Update and Look at the Future.	92
	Call for Papers Annual Report Issue	20
	Annual Report Survey Fill this out NOW!!!	41