AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.9 # 6 December 1997/January 1998 © Katina Strauch

	Rumors	1
	Deadlines	6
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Biz of Acq – Increasing Your Efficiency with Internet Resources by Rob Withers — When used creatively, Internet resources can speed up to process of finding information about the materials we order and communicating information with selectors, acquisitions personnel, and vendors.	1
	Op–Ed – Opinions and Editorials – The Crisis of the Scholarly Monograph Conference – Washington, DC byThomas Bacher — Is the bound, narrowly defined book near death?	22
	Back Talk by Tony Ferguson — Advances in Education and Librarianship – It has been said that, "Every advance in education is made over the dead bodies of 10,000 resisting professors." Tony wonders if the same could be said of librarians.	94
	Tim Bradbury Katina Strauch — Vice President, GaleNet	24
	Norman Horrocks Katina Strauch — Scarecrow Press	26
	David Rubin Katina Strauch — Rookwood Press	28
	Lindsay and Howes by Pam Cenzer —	30
Edited by Barbara Dean Bdean@co.arlington.va.us
	Katherine Higgins Bielsky Catalog Department Head – College of Charleston Libraries	72
	From the Reference Desk Plenty more reference reviews	32
	Book Reviews Health Care at the Abyss: Managed Care vs. the Goals of Medicine, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, andMono Lake Stories are reviewed in the issue.	36
	Just In Time Acquisitions: The Case of the NY Times Book Review by Lynda Clendinning —	50
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Electronic Rights: Going Beyond the Grant of Rights Clause Lloyd Rich talks about the controversial Tasini Decision.	44
	Cases of Note Anne's been hard a work reading cases on Jurisdiction and the Internet and Books and the First Amendment.	48
	Book Pricing Update Dan Miller talks about Reference Publishing in 1997	52
	Academic Books Trends by Celia Scher Wagner — Popular book prices – The focus is on a cluster analysis of one year's actual (as well as average or median) academic book prices.	54
	Publishers Bestsellers Michigan State University Press	56
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings – USKG and The Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis or How Can I Get Tenure If You Don't Publish My Book?	60
	Bet You Missed It! Is the Web destroying the quality of research papers? And how about creating more money for lawyers? Check out what Sarah Tusa and her staff have been reading!	64
	Group Therapy Connie Foster wants to know– How do you identify electronic journals in your OPAC?	66
	Inside Pandora's Box Navigating Permanent "White-water" Organization Change by Richard M. Dougherty This paper explores the nature and types of change. A realistic change model is presented along with useful change and planning strategies.	68
	Practical Issues Associated with Outsourcing by Lynne Branche Brown —	75
	Not Fit For Print What exactly does it mean to run your library like a business and can it be done easily? Are there differences between not-for-profit and the profit sector? Where do people fit in the equation? Tony Leisner has some answers.	78
	On The Street The word on everyone's lips isInternet Commerce these days. Eamon Fennessy and Kathy Miraglia have polled you to see what you have to say about Online Acquisition and the Librarian.	80
	Papa Lyman Remembers Buzz words and phrases and theCharleston Conference and Frankfurt Book Fair are Papa's subjects this time.	82
	In Praise of Bookshops Claire Fund interviews Rare Bookseller Mike Slicker – Lighthouse Books.	84
	International Dateline Shelley Neville is An American in Moscow: Discovering Today's Libraries in Russia.	83
Edited by Sandra K. Paul and Albert Simmonds (SKP Associates)
	Doc Aquis Do you know about the Librarian's Online Warehouse? See what Elsie Pritchard says about it.	86
	Innovations Affecting Us The Cookie Monster: Personal Privacy and the Internet by Norman Desmarais – We all know that most of the messages we wend over the Internet have about the same level of security as the common postcard. But a cookie manager can prevent the installation of a cookie that would permit tracking one's browsing activities.	87
	Chaos Although publishers often are on the leading edge of experimentation and design in creating electronic products, because they are using inefficient means to promote access to, and grant sales registration for, some extremely innovative products, their efforts may be ignored by the very audiences they are trying to serve because of the difficulty and complexity of accessing these products. Chuck Hamaker gives us some fact and opinion about Journals Electronic Style.	90
	Call for Papers 1998 Charleston Conference	42
	Adventures in Librarianship This charming essay is about Brute Force Librarian by Ned Kraft	58
	On the Road A New Kind of Meeting Report –Here's another report on NASIG from Connie Foster, a board member stranded in the airport ...	79
	A Little Nostalgia by Nancy Soth — Saying Good-Bye to the Cards in Each Book	92