Front Matter
Table of Contents
Editor
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Issues, News, & Goings On
From Your Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch
International Dateline-The UK Perspective
Martin White
Features
netLibrary.com: Cautious Optimism/Views from a Research Library and a University Press
Janet L. Flowers
Back Talk-Librarian Myths-Familiar and Comforting, but True
Anthony W. Ferguson
ATG Interviews
Adam Klein-Chief Client Offier-RoweCom
Katina Strauch
Reviews
From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson
TestDriving CD-ROMS-Reviews of CD-ROM products-Experiments and Observations on Electricity/Benjamin Franklin
Norman Desmarais
Book Reviews
Tom Leonhardt
Legal Issues
Cases of Note-Copyright and Trade Secrets or What? Tasini vs. The New York Times and John Canter vs. West Publishing Co., Inc.
Bruce Strauch, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Copyright Questions and Answers
Laura N. Gasaway, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Publishing
Handling Medusa-Mergers in Publishing: Do they Matter?
Linda Defendeifer and John Cox
Best-Selling Recent Fiction 1999
Francoise Crowell and Bob Nardini
Bookselling and Vending
Oregon Trails-Support Your Local Bookseller
Tom Leonhardt
Book Pricing Update-Economics of a Goofy Business
Dan Miller and Gary Nees
And They Were There-Reports of Meetings-ALCTS eBooks Preconference and SALALM
Sever Bordeianu and Julia Gelfand
Papa Lyman Remembers: October Salad Days
Lyman Newlin
Technology and Standards
Biz of Acq-Paperback Prebinding: Finding its Place in the Budget
Neil Jaffe, Sandra K. Paul, Albert Simmonds, and Rob Richards
Webworthy-Unique and Interesting Websites
Pamela M. Rose, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds