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ISSUES, NEWS, & GOINGS ON

Rumors- p. 1

From Your Editor – p. 6

Letters to the Editor – p. 6

Deadlines – p. 6

FEATURES

Audio Visual Preservation — Guest Editors, Corrie Marsh and Fenella France

Audio Visual Preservation – p. 1
by Corrie Marsh and Fenella France — Modern media formats are more at risk.  The range of materials, the lack of training in preservation and education are just some of the reasons.

Audio Visual Preservation at the Library of Congress – p. 12
by Fenella G. France — The authors enumerate how they are helping students to increase their reading and comprehension skills at their particular institutions.

The Tangible Media Program at the Library of Congress – p. 17
by Moryma Aydelott — In 2011, Library Services began a program to look at obsolete tangible media formats in LOC collections.

The Digital Vapor Trail – p. 18
Why Early Digital Assets Merit Special Attention by Chris Muller — This is a series of vignettes from data-rescue projects.

Audio-Visual Collection Preservation at the NARA – p. 21
by Christina Kovac and Jason Love — The  collection at the National Archives and Records Administration has an estimated 700,000 reels of modern picture film and 850,000 audio and video recordings.

A Race Against Time: Best Practices for Preservation Digitization of Video – p. 24
by George Blood — George states, “As archives begin to grapple with digital records, A-V straddles the old analog world and the brave new world of file-based records.”

Magnetic Tapes, Playable or Not? – p. 29
by Brianna M. Cassidy, Eric M. Breitung, Nathan C. Fuenffinger, Zhenyn Lu, Heather M. Heckman, Lydia C. Pappas, Gregory J. Wilsbacher, Michael L. Myrick and Stephen L. Morgan — Over 40 million magnetic tape recordings are held by institutions in the U.S.

Optical Disc Archiving and International Standards – p. 30
by Hiroko Ito — Hiroko explains the advantages of using optical discs for archiving and how to get the most out of supporting guidelines.

Tools and Apps from AVPreserve – p. 32
by Chris Lacinak — Tools and applications for the desktop and the Web.

If You’ve Been Told Your Film Is “Extinct,” Maybe You Need A Second Opinion – p. 33
by Tim Knapp — Reed Boyce wanted to invent the scanner that could capture visions from the past for future generations.

Op Ed – p. 46
Second Thoughts on Net Neutrality: What We Have Lost in the FCC’s New Oversight of the Web by Steve McKinzie — Steve wonders if this is in our best interests.

Back Talk – p. 86
On First Looking into My InBox by Jim O’Donnell — I think I am going to send Jim more emails!

ATG INTERVIEWS

Tom Hogan, Sr – p. 48
CEO, Information Today, Inc.

Pauline Rodriguez-Atkins – p. 66
Manager, Metropolitan Library System

PROFILES ENCOURAGED

Tom Hogan, Sr – p. 49

Pub Profile – Information Today, Inc – p. 50

REVIEWS

Booklover – p. 8
Female Firsts by Donna Jacobs — Donna attended many Spoleto 2015 events and in the process discovered Selma Lagerlöf.

From the Reference Desk – p. 34
Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Tom reviews the Encyclopedia of Food Issues, American Civil War: A State-by-State Encyclopedia, and many more.

Book Reviews – p. 37
Monographic Musings by Regina Gong — In this issue, technology seems to be the underlying focus of the books reviewed.

Collecting to the Core – p. 40
Online Allied Health Resources for the Classroom and the Clinic by Ann Hallyburton — Books we need to keep in our collections.

Briefly Noted – p. 44
by Bryan Dillon — Some books received for review by Against the Grain.

A Special Review– p. 52
by Andrew T. Alwine — A review of Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity by Jim O’Donnell.

LEGAL ISSUES

Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery

Cases of Note – p. 53
Copyright and Patent: Substantial Similarity by Bruce Strauch — Amini Innovation Corporation vs. Anthony California, Inc. and James Chang.

Questions and Answers – p. 54
Copyright Column by Laura N. Gasaway — Lolly answers many intriguing questions.  When you write a letter to a member of the House  of Representatives do you hold the copyright?

PUBLISHING

Being Earnest with Collections – p. 65
How Publishers Provide Added Value Through Account Development by Sarah Schulman — This is about a successful collaboration.

From A University Press– p. 68
Diversity in Publishing by Leila W. Salisbury — Diversity within our staffs is key, says Leila,  but as publishers we can and should also be looking for diversity in the ranks of our authors and the subjects in which we publish.

The Scholarly Publishing Scene – p. 69
Heads of Houses by Myer Kutz — Myer decided to surf the Web to see who is running some scholarly publishing houses these days.

Don’s Conference Notes – p. 72
by Donald T. Hawkins — In this issue, Steve Oberg reports on NASIG at 30: Building the Digital Future, while Don reports on The New Big Picture: Connecting Diverse Perspectives – The 2015 SSP Meeting.

And They Were There– p. 78
Reports of Meetings — LéaLA 2015 by Wendy Pederson; SALALM 2015 by Wendy Pederson and Claire-Lise Benaud, and more reports from the 2014 Charleston Conference by Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters.

BOOKSELLING AND VENDING

Bet You Missed It- p. 10
by Bruce Strauch — What do Twitter and shrimp ‘n grits have in common?  Read about it here!

Both Sides Now: Vendors and Librarians – p. 55
It’s In Everyone’s Best Interest to Require an Agenda to Make an Important Meeting with a Vendor More Productive by Michael Gruenberg

Biz of Acq– p. 57
LibGuides: Changing the Game for Technical Services Procedures & Policies by Kat Landry Mueller and Molly Thompson — This is about documenting workflows.

Curating Collective Collections – p. 60
PALMPrint: An International Collaboration to Preserve American Legal Materials in Print by Margaret K. Maes and Tracy L. Thompson — The idea to preserve  began five years ago as two executive directors examined the transition in law libraries from primarily print information to heavily digital.

Changing Library Operations – p. 62
The Dangers of eBook Plug & Play – Managing the Orbis Cascade Shared eBook Collection by James Bunnelle and Linda Di Biase — Four years into the Orbis Cascade eBook Project, they encountered new and different challenges like the content removal project.

Oregon Trails – p.64
The Gift of Reading by Tom Leonhardt — Tom can’t imagine not being able to read.

Let’s Get Technical – p. 66
Moving Technical Services to an Off-site Space by Stacey Marien and Alayne Mundt — This is a great interview with Pauline Rodriguez-Atkins.

Optimizing Library Services – p. 70
Libraries, Librarians, and Disaster Management in the 21st Century by Emy Nelson Decker and Jennifer Townes — What is needed in many libraries and archives is a change in organizational structure surrounding the discussion of disasters and their impact.

Little Red Herrings – p. 71
DC + SEUG by Mark Y. Herring — This one is about the digital commons southeastern users group which recently met at Winthrop.

TECHNOLOGY AND STANDARDS

Blurring Lines – p. 81
The Logical Extension of the Demand-Driven Purchase Model – Customization, Multi-Media and Ever-Improving Analytics by David Parker — A library that knows a good deal more than it does now about how its content is used will make even better decisions about how to trigger purchase in an improved future-state environment.

Decoder Ring – p. 84
The Digital Comic Museum by Jerry Spiller — Jerry wants to introduce us to a dangerously wonderful thing – DCM.

Pelikan’s Antidisambiguation – p. 82
“Self-Preservation and the Cloud” by Michael P. Pelikan — Michael says he can’t remember a Net-based concept that has achieved such a degree of pervasiveness as the Cloud.

@Brunning: People & Technology – p. 83
At the Only Edge that Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do by Dennis Brunning — Dennis does his usual survey of the evolving world around us.  We are talking jargon (“rando”), software eating the world, as well as the once glorious era of the book.