Library Collections Acquisitions, Technical Services
VOL. 23 , NO. 2 , 1999


CONTENTS



Jo Ann Carr 139 7999 LCATS Research Award
Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

Papers

Gregory K. Younger 141 Using Current Awareness Search Results to Measure a
Journal Collection's Relevancy

Klaus G. Altmann 149 Anatomy of a Serials Collection and Its Usage: Case
G. E. German Study of an Australian Academic Library

Barry Fast 163 Books in the Digital World

Interview

Karen Calhoun 169 An Interview with Ross Atkinson, Deputy University
Librarian, Cornell University Library

Conference Report

Judy Luther 179 Electronic Book '98—Turning a New Page in
Knowledge Management: NIST Conference


Rick Anderson 183 The Debate Over Service Fees: What Was the Question,
Again?

Vania M. Goodwin 191 Serials Management: The Next Generation

Stephen D. Corrsin 192 Interpreting Financial Statements and Creating and
understanding Appropriate Budgets for Your
Organization

Lisa German 193 Designing and Implementing a Consortial Approval
Plan: the OhioLINK Experience

Jack G. Montgomery 194 Lessons from Joe lzuzu: a Look at Pricing and Value in
Today's Electronic Information Marketplace

James A. Baldwin 195 Customer Service or Core Lists: Just in Case or Just in
Time

Maribeth Krupctak 196 Different Books for Different Folks: Where Book
Reviews Come From, Where They Go, and Who Cares

Leslie Homer Button 198 The Debate Over Library Service Fees: What Was the
Question Again?

Julie L, Rabine 200 Tossin' and Turning All Night: Publishers' Dreams and
Nightmares

James A. Baldwin 202 Putting Your Trust in Reviews: The Ethics of Book
Reviewing

Patricia S. Harwell 203 E-Commerce and Credit Cards: Practical Considerations

Leslie Homer Button 204 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Forming Consortia
and Licensing

Leslie Homer Button 207 Peeking Over the Internet's Edge: What's New, What's
Coming, and How We'll Use It

Patricia S, Harwell 208 Land Grab! Planning Library Buildings for 21st Century
Collections

Sandra A. Beehler 209 Legal Considerations for Supervisors in Today's Library

Bessie Platten 210 The Case Against Outsourcing


Janet L Flowers 212 Saving Time and Trees without Getting Lost in the
Woods: Electronic Selection at the University of
Chicago

Sandra A. Beehler 214 Acquisitions Workstations Panel

Julie L Rabine 214 Aggregation or Aggravation: What Do Libraries Need?

Narda Tajuri 216 What a Scientist Really Wants from Electronic Journals

The Review Section

Philip Calvert 219 Academic Library Surveys and Statistics in Practice:
Proceedings of a Seminar Held at Loughborough
university, 2-3 June, 1997

Thomas W. Leonhardt 220 Advances in Serials Management, Volume 6.

Ross Harvey 221 The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology,
3rd Edition

John M. Budd 222 The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the
Post-Modern Library

Marcia Pankake 223 Images and Texts: Their Production and Distribution in
the 18th and 19th Centuries

John M, Budd 224 Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in
the Electronic Age. A Film by Terry Sanders

Thomas W. Leonhardt 225 Planning and Implementing Technical Services
Workstations

Philip Calvert 226 Serials Cataloguing at the Turn of the Century

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Library Collections Acquisitions & Technical Services

VOL. 21, NO. 3, 1999

Editorial

G, E. Gorman 227 The Work of a Library Collections, Acquisitions, &
Technical Services Editor from The Land of The Long
White Cloud

Manuscripts

Linda A. Brown and 231 The Evolving Approval Plan: How Academic Librarians
John Harper Forsyth . Evaluate Services for Vendor Selection and Performance


Yitai Gong 279 Standardization in Chinese Character Processing and
Chinese MARC Records


Adrian Alexander, lan Best, 287 The Lucky Orbit: One Subscription Agent's Approach
and David Fritsch to Collection Management Reports


Bonnie MacEwan 315 Understanding Users' Needs and Making Collections
Choices

Carol Pitts Diedrichs 321 Making Choices: Vendors and Agents in the Assessment
Process
Conference Report

Judy L. Johnson 339 License Review and Negotiation: Building a
Team-based Institutional Process


Virginia M. Scheschy 343 ALCTS Heads of Cataloging Discussion Group

Ehui L. Saxton 344 Electronic Bibliographic Data: From Publishers to
Vendors to Libraries: A Report of the ALCTS
Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems
Discussion Group


Robin Crumrin 346 Changing Structures, Changing Roles: A Report of the
ALCTS Pre-Order/Pre-Catalog Searching Discussion
Group


Narda Tafuri 348 Reprint vs. Out-of-Print: The Growing World of Choices

Rachel L. Wadham 349 Highlights of the ALCTS CCS Research Discussion Group


Ngoc-My Gllidarelli 352 Booksales vs. OP Dealers: A Report from ALCTS AS
Gifts & Exchange Discussion Group


Rob Withers 353 Looking for Approval? Selecting and Working with
Approval Vendors: A Report of the ALCTS Acquisition
Administrators Discussion Group

Rob Withers 354 Not One Size Fits All: Budgeting for and Evaluating
Electronic Services: A Report of the ALCTS
Acquisition Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials


Karen M. Letarte 356 Highlights of the ALCTS Scholarly Communication
Discussion Group


Bob Persing 358 Highlights of the ALCTS Serials Section Journal Costs
in Libraries Discussion Group


Bob Persing 360 Highlights of "The Changing Role of Serials
Acquisitions Librarians in the Electronic Environment"


Mary Page 361 Report from the LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation
Interest Group



Beatrice L, Caraway 362 Highlights of the Role of the Professional in Academic
Technical Services Discussion Group Meeting

Thomas E. Nisonger 365 Collecting at the Margins: Social Protest and
Counterculture Materials


Jennifer L. Edwards 367 ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group


Angela Jones 369 Highlights of the Copy Cataloging Discussion Group


Lydia W. Wasylenko 372 Optimizing End-User Access to Aggregations of
Full-Text E-Journals: Highlights of the ALCTS CCS
Catalog Management Discussion Group Program

Review Section

Zary Mostashari 375 1997 Harvard Business School Core Collection: An
Author, Title and Subject Guide


Richard J. Wood 376 Acquiring and Organizing Curriculum Materials: A
Guide and Directory of Resources


William S. Monroe 377 Acquisitions and Collection Development in the
Humanities


Charley Pennell 378 ArtMARC Sourcebook: Cataloging Art, Architecture
and Their Visual Images


Ari Cohen 379 Cataloging Hebrew Materials in the Online
Environment: A Comparative Study of American and
Israeli Approaches


Peggy Johnson 380 Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library

Richard J. Wood 381 Disaster Reponse and Planning for Libraries


Bonita Bryant 383 Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage
and Delivery


Judy L. Johnson 384 E-Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users and Standards


Wanda V. Dole 385 Exploring Outsourcing: Case Studies of Corporate
Libraries


Thomas W. Leonhardt 386 The Internet-Plus Directory of Express Library Services:
Research and Document Delivery for Hire


Peggy Johnson 387 Making the Most of New Technology

Susan E. Higgins 388 Modeling Use at Individual Service Points

Richard J. Wood 389 Organization of Document Collections and Services


Wanda V. Dole 390 Serials Management in Academic Libraries: A Guide to
Issues and Practices

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