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Against the Grain Volume 22 | Issue 6 Article 3 December 2010 If Rumors Were Horses Katina Strauch Against the Grain, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Strauch, Katina (2010) "If Rumors Were Horses," Against the Grain: Vol. 22: Iss. 6, Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.5681 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. c/o Katina Strauch 209 Richardson Avenue MSC 98, The Citadel Charleston, SC 29409 ALA MIDWINTER ISSUE TM VOLUME 22, NUMBER 6 december 2010 - JANUARY 2011 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” Sustainability in Collection Development: Seeing the Forest and the Trees by Karen Christensen (CEO, Berkshire Publishing; Phone: 413-528-0206) <[email protected]> ne of the things that makes academic ran recently (see preliminary details on p.16) well-known publishing such a pleasure is that we shows much emphasis on reducing paper use for her work Ocreate new ways for people to get infor- but little awareness of the impact of digital in the library mation from the world’s experts, and new ways technologies. We seem still to be, quite liter- community, for those experts to reach a wider audience. I ally, seeing only the trees. I wrote about this contributes myself became an expert on environmental liv- issue in Against the Grain last January, as well an overview on “Practicing Sustainable Envi- ing, and a “green” author with books published as in the UKSG Serials journal, and now pres- ronmental Solutions.” in many languages, because as a young mother ent a group of articles in this “Sustainability” A useful case study of how sustainability in London I asked so many questions about my issue that will help readers see the forest — the issues are being incorporated into many pro- baby’s food, water, air, and future. bigger picture. grams and disciplines has been contributed Today, I continue to ask questions and Our focus here is environmental sustain- by Roxanne Spencer of Western Kentucky have the privilege of working with hundreds ability, which means using resources and University, and we include a summary of of experts on all aspects of environmental interacting with the natural world in ways results from the survey that was circulated sustainability. I’m dazzled by the range of that will not reduce what is available to future to all contributors and contacts for Berkshire analysis that’s being done. When it comes generations. Merilyn Burke, University of Encyclopedia of Sustainability, to Berkshire’s to understanding the impact of our everyday South Florida, provides a fine overview of library contacts, and via Against the Grain’s choices, however, we haven’t come far enough. collection development challenges, while Tony e-newsletter. Statistican Justin Miller, a doc- There’s far more knowledge of specific issues Horava, University of Ottawa, digs into how continued on page 16 than there was 20 years ago but not much more sustainability affects collection management. awareness of the big picture. We see the trees, In “Getting There from Here,” environmental What To Look For In This Issue: but we still are not seeing the forest. historian Michael Smith, Ithaca College, also That expression has a concrete application looks at travel and professional conferences in The Dual Mission Paradigm: A when it comes to libraries and publishers. The terms of social welfare, an aspect of sustainable Ranganathanian Critique .................44 “Building Sustainable Libraries Survey” we development. Maria Jankowska, UCLA, The Future of the Textbook ..............45 How do you eat an elephant? or If Rumors Were Horses eContent and the Future of the Academic Book Vendor .....................59 hew! This fall/winter has been a (MD) offices. Product names will remain the Toward a Modest Agenda: Academic whirlwind! First was the 30th same, but will begin to include the ProQuest Library and University Press WCharleston Conference that went brand in 2011. Customers can find answers Collaborations .....................................61 very well (except for the rain, only the second to their questions about the transition from Papa Abel Remembers ......................64 time in 30 years!), then the christening of my LexisNexis to ProQuest at www.proquest. granddaughter (9 months), and then Thanks- com/go/CISUPAinfo. Can Open Access Save Us? ...............74 giving and Christmas! What’s next. Oh yes, www.against-the-grain.com/ The Temptations of Netflix ................83 2011, coming up! Plus, it was great to hook up with the Interviews Let’s see. Big news that Congressional sexy Simon Beale of ProQuest during the Moshe Pritsker ..................................49 Information Service (CIS) and University Charleston Conference Gala Reception on Publications of America (UPA) have been Thursday night! Jud Dunham ......................................52 acquired by ProQuest from LexisNexis And just heard from the incredibly hard- Profiles Encouraged just after Thanksgiving. CIS and UPA edito- working Beth Bernhardt who says that her Moshe Pritsker ..................................50 rial staff members will join daughter Anna is engaged! James proposed to ProQuest and Anna Monday night a few weeks ago! I guess will continue Beth is already shopping for her mother-of-the- to be based in bride trousseau! (or am I out of date?) their Bethesda continued on page 6 1043-2094(201012/201101)22:6;1-C and Martin Marlow (etextbooks). Our interviews are with Moshe Pritsker and Jud From Your (Brrrr) Editor: Dunham. Our usual columnists have written about among other things, econtent (Biz of Acq), collaboration (University Presses), writing (Booklover), data man- It is freezing in Charleston! Where did this weather come from? I have worn my agement (Standards), Netflicks (Technology), book approval plans and eBooks winter coat constantly for the past six weeks! I am ready for the Charleston heat. Or (Library Collections in the 21st century), open access (Red Herring), copyright in at least some snow if we have to put up with this weather! the digital age (As I See It), and many others! And Richard Abel returns to continue Of course, the weather was an excuse to stay inside and work on this great issue of the Tale of the Richard Abel Company. ATG — Sustainability in Collection Development — guest edited by the awesome Oops! They are telling us the weather is supposed to go down to the teens Karen Christensen. We have articles by Merilyn Burke, Roxanne Myers Spencer, tonight and there may even be snow in the upstate! I have to open up my husband’s Michael Smith, Maria Jankowska, Whitney Bauman, and Tony Horava. Our Op grandmother’s cedar chest and get out more warm clothes! Brrrr…. Ed is by Liz Lorbeer and Heather Klusendorf. We have some great special reports Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and here’s hoping that 2011 is the best by Patrick Carr (the mission of libraries in the 21st century) and Sara Killingworth year ever! Much love to all y’all, Yr. Ed. Letters to the Editor Rumors from page 1 Send letters to <[email protected]>, phone or fax 843-723-3536, or snail mail: Against the Grain, MSC 98, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409. You can also send a Did you see the svelte Heather Klusendorf in Charleston? WOW! Did she look good or what? Right letter to the editor from the ATG Homepage at http://www.against-the-grain.com. after the birth of her baby girl (see Izzy’s photo p.6)! And clearly she even has time to write as well. See this month’s Op Ed which she wrote with the equally ere at ATG Headquarters we often receive Shown here with Santa is on-top-of-it Liz Lorbeer. “Open and Accessible Hbirth announcements and pictures from Supplemental Data: How Libraries Can Solve the Izzy, daughter Supplemental Arms Race.” See this issue, p.42. our loyal authors and readers. In this issue of Heather we’d like to share a few with you. They’re all Didn’t see the fantabulous Dennis Brunning at Klusendorf, the Charleston Conference? Know why? Dennis so cute, don’t you agree? — Yr. Ed. who is almost booked the wrong week for his plane ticket! Oops! five months But I figure he had a good excuse. His daughter just old now. Boy had his first grandbaby – Elianna. See her picture This curious child peeking over a shoulder is Dennis time sure flies, amid all the other baby pictures, this issue, p.6. doesn’t it? Our intrepid book review editor, Deb Vaughn (see Brunning’s grandchild, Elianna. Wonder if she got her book review column, this issue, p.53) just had her an iPad from grandpa for Shown below all decked out in his own baby. He is named Henry Crader and he is cute as Christmas? Christimas attire and awaiting his first a button (but not as cute as his sister Helen). He is among visit from Santa is the pictures on p.6 too. This is the brilliant idea of my Cameron Kris- right-hand ATG editor, Toni Nix! Thank you, Toni! topher Little, son of Courtney Little. Interrupting the babies and following the book review theme, one of the reviews in this issue is of the voice-man Jack Montgomery’s American Shamans (BUSCA, 2008). It’s about magical healings, ghostly encounters, and alternate realities. One of our religion professors at the College of Charleston saw the book and said it was excellent for the collection! Jack is so talented and versatile! Did you see him perform ANYTHING GOES (with new library/publisher/ven- dor lyrics by the talented Greg Tananbaum)? What a great beginning to the 30th Charleston Conference! (Lyrics are included in this issue, p.79.) Moshe Pritsker – Did you meet this fantastic man in Charleston? We have an interview with Moshe about JoVE (Journal of Visualized Ex- Shown above is Cris Fer- The peacefully sleeping child to the left is periments).