Front Matter
Issues, News, & Goings On
If Rumors Were Horses
Katina Strauch
From Your Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch
Features
NIRDs Unite: Building a Community of InstitutionalRepository Practitioners in the Northeast
Eleni Castro, Erin Jerome, Colin Lukens, Mikki Simon MacDonald, and Lisa Palmer
IR-Themed Issue — IRs R Cool Again
Burton Callicot and Natasha Simons
Future Proofing IRs with Data and Software
Natasha Simons and Chris Erdmann
The Once and Future IR Agenda: Resolving the
Dialectic Aims of Institutional Repositories
Andrew Wesolek
IRs: Publication Method of Last Resort
Anton Angelo
Putting the IR in RIMS: Towards an Automated
Integration Between Institutional Repositories and
Research Intelligence Systems
Jamie Wittenberg
Meeting Institutional Goals by Working Beyond
Institutional Walls
John Chodacki and Daniella Lowenberg
Getting to Grips with NTROs (visual arts data): The
Role of Repositories and Libraries in Their Management
Robin Burgess
“Institutional” Repositories, Redefined: Reflecting
Institutional Commitments to Community Engagement
Amanda Makula
Op Ed- Headwaters — Food, Money, and Stability
Kent Anderson
Eradicating the Written Word- Power and Symbolism through the Lenses of Book Burnings and Takedowns — A Research Project
Frances Pinter
ATG Interviews
ATG Interviews Nigel Newton, Founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing
Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson
ATG Interviews Sven Fund, Managing Director of Knowledge Unlatched
Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson
ATG Interviews Dr. Anke Beck, CEO of Intech Open
Katina Strauch and Tom Gilson
Profile Encouraged
Reviews
Booklover — Summer Reading
Donna Jacobs
Collecting to the Core — Writing in Mathematics
Kristine K. Fowler and Anne Doherty
Legal Issues
Legally Speaking — European Union Promises Big
Changes in Copyright Law
Bill Hannay, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery
Questions and Answers-Copyright Column
Laura N. Gassaway
Publishing
Bet You Missed It-Press Clippings — In the News — Carefully Selected by Your Crack Staff of News Sleuths
Bruce Strauch
And They Were There- Reports of Meetings — 38th Annual Charleston Conference
Ramue K. Kubilius and Sever Bordeianu
Bookselling and Vending
Both Sides Now: Vendors and Librarians — Hey
Vendors, Do You Really Understand Your Marketplace?
Michael Gruenberg
Being Earnest with Collections —
Advancing Textbook Affordability:
Considerations for Open and
Affordable Course Materials
Ariana E. Santiago and Michael A. Arthur
Optimizing Library Services — Institutional Repositories
and Knowledge Curation: Revisiting Knowledge
Conversion in the Academic Environment
Arjun Sabharwal, Lindsay Wertman, and Caroline Campbell
Biz of Digital — Developing and Growing a
New Repository Service: Part 3 Expansion
Michelle Flinchbaugh
Technology and Standards
Considering Games in Libraries and Such —
On using a Game to Actually Teach Something.
Part I: The Accidental Learner
Jared Alexander Seay
Wandering the Web: Food Websites
Dan Forrest and Jack Montgomery
Library Analytics: Shaping the Future —
Communicating Library Impact through Annual Reports
Kristen Hall, Janet H. Clarke, John McDonald, and Kathleen McEvoy
Epistemology — The Tests of Time
T. Scott Plutchak
Let’s Get Technical — Holistic Collection Assessment
Meghan Burke, Gwen Vredevoogd, Stacey Marien, and Alayne Mundt