Against the Grain | Vol 28 | Iss 6

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Front Matter

Table of Contents

Issues, News, & Goings On

If Rumors Were Horses
Katina Strauch

From Your Editor
Katina Strauch

Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch

Features

The Value of Publishing: What's Worth Paying For?
Nancy L. Maron

I'll Take "Sifting and Winnowing" for $1000, Alex
Dennis Lloyd

Building a List
Richard Carlin

Lucid Prose, Good Timing, Happy Authors: Steps Toward Successful Editorial Production
Jenya Weinreb

Dust Jackets to Dust?
John Sherer

Making Connections, Building Community
Kathryn Conrad

Small But Mighty: How University Presses Bring Academic Ideas to the World
Jessica Lawrence Hurt

Adding Media, Adding Value
Susan Doerr

Ditching the Guillotine: An Education in Accessability
Becky Brasington Clark

The Singularity of the Book
Carey C. Newman

Op Ed--Opinions and Editorials--Pelikan's Antidisambiguation--"Digital Golf Clubs"
Michael P. Pelikan

Back Talk--The Frankfurt Book Fair
Ann Okerson

ATG Special Report--The Charleston Library Conference Fast Pitch 2016
Ann Okerson, Katina Strauch, and Steve Goodall

ATG Interviews

Multi-Perspective Interview of Video Streaming featuring: Leandra Preston-Sidler, University of Central Florida; Kiren Shoman, SAGE Publishing; and Michael Arthur, The University of Alabama
Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson

ATG Interviews Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, Alexander Street
Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson

Profile Encouraged

Profiles Encouraged--Profiles for 13 authors and seven companies or university presses

Reviews

Collecting to the Core--Cross-disciplinary Criminal Justice Resources
Beth Sheehan and Anne Doherty

From the Reference Desk--Reviews of Reference Titles
Tom Gilson

Book Reviews--Monographic Musings
Regina Gong

Legal Issues

Legally Speaking--Long Arm of the Law, A Charleston Conference Presentation, November 5, 2016
Bruce Strauch, Bryan M. Carson, Jack Montgomery, and Bill Hannay

Questions and Answers--Copyright Column
Laura N. Gassaway

Publishing

Bet You Missed It--What do bookstores and rabbit hunters have in common?
Bruce Strauch

Little Red Herrings--A Life Now Lived
Mark Y. Herring

The Scholarly Publishing Scene-- PROSE Awards, Again
Myer Kutz

Straight Talk--Signs of Scientific Publishing Disruption: A Look at Elsevier, the World's Largest STM Publisher
Dan Tonkery

Random Ramblings--The Primary Advantage of Literary Scholarship
Bob Holley

Don's Conference Notes--An NFAIS Workshop and A Charleston Preconference Seminar
Donald T. Hawkins

Bookselling and Vending

Both Sides Now: Vendors and Librarians--Value: A View from Different Angles
Michael Gruenberg

Optimizing Library Services--Collaborations and Partnerships for the Modern Academic Library
Brian Doherty, Ann Lupold, and Lindsay Johnston

Collection Management Matters--A Requiem for the Reference Collection
Glenda Alvin

Curating Collective Collections--ReCAP, Centralized Book Housing, and the Economy of Shared Collections, or, From Book Barn to Service Center
Bob Kieft and Jacob Nadal

International Dateline--Worlds Apart
Rita Ricketts and Lydia Weyers

Let's Get Technical--A Herculean Task: Cleanup in Preparation for Migrating to a New ILS
Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt

Biz of Acq--Digging Deeper: Trends by Discipline after 4+ Years into Winthrop's PDA Program
Michelle Flinchbaugh and Antje Mays

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