Front Matter
Issues, News, & Goings On
If Rumors Were Horses
Katina Strauch
From Your Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch
Features
A Peek Inside Vendor/Library Partnership to Establish aFirm Order Workflow Through a Consortial Migration
Moon Kim and Moriah Guy
Inside Outsourcing Technical Services: Upsides and
Downsides
Stacey Marion and Alayne Mindt
Outsourcing: A Librarian and Vendor Perspective
Charles F. Hillen
Gig Cataloger: Working as an Independent Contractor on
an Outsourced Reclassification Project
Catherine Eilers
OhioLINK and Vendor Records
Quality Control
Emily Flynn
Outsourcing Cataloging at the University of Maryland,
College Park: Problems and Opportunities
Benjamin Bradley and Beth Guay
Outsourced Cataloging of Materials in Languages for
Which There Is No In-House Capability
Joshua Hutchinson
Homegrown Outsourcing: A Cooperative Cataloging Pilot
Between Duke University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Denise Soufi, Nanako Thomas, and Natalie Sommerville
Outsourcing Technical Services in a Health Sciences
Library
Demetria Patrick and Melanie McGurr
Jumping Into and Then Climbing Partially Back Out of
the Pond
Kay G. Johnson and Elizabeth McCormick
Streamlining Workflows: Combining In-House Cataloging
and Outsourcing to Achieve Institutional Success
Cecilia Williams, Nikita Mohammed, and Amber Seely
Back Talk — The Real Crisis in Higher Education
Jim O'Donnell
Profile Encouraged
Reviews
Collecting to the Core — Classics of Sociology
Cindy L. Craig and Anne Doherty
Legal Issues
Legally Speaking — European Commission’s Copyright
Reform Raises Issues
Anthony Paganelli, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery
Questions and Answers-Copyright Column
Laura N. Gassaway
Publishing
And They Were There- Reports of Meetings — 2019 ALPSP Conference
Ramue K. Kubilius and Sever Bordeianu
Bet You Missed It-Press Clippings — In the News — Carefully Selected by Your Crack Staff of News Sleuths
Bruce Strauch
Don's Conference Notes- Shopping the New Status Quo: The 41st Society
for Scholarly Publishing Meeting
Donald T. Hawkins and Leah H. Hinds
Bookselling and Vending
Collection Management Matters — BFF:
Collaborative Partnerships of Collection
Management and Systems Librarians
Xuemei Ge and Glenda Alvin
Biz of Digital — Transitioning to a New IR Platform
Michelle Flinchbaugh and Pam Pierce
Both Sides Now: Vendors and Librarians — It's the Relationship
Michael Gruenberg
Marketing Touchpoints — Segmenting User Groups for
Greater Inclusivity
Jill Stover Heinze
Optimizing Library Services — “…To Talk of Many
Things!”
Brittany Haynes, Elyssa M. Gould, Lindsay Wertman, and Caroline Campbell
Little Red Herrings — A Modest Proposal
Mark Y. Herring
Technology and Standards
Wandering the Web — STEM and STEAM: Selected
Ideas for Children’s & Young Adult Programming
Roxanne Spencer and Jack Montgomery
Considering Games in Libraries and Such — The
Ultimate Library Instruction
Jared Alexander Seay
Epistemology — Building Relationships
T. Scott Plutchak
Emerging Tech: To Be or Not to Be? —
Content Technologies
Deni Auclair and John Corkery