Online version of the July/August 2000 issue of College & Research Libraries News.

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C&RL News
July/August 2000
Volume 61, No. 7

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Features

INTERNET RESOURCES
Children's literature
Pam Werre and Ru Story-Huffman
Authors, illustrators, and award lists at your fingertips.

To keep up, go beyond
Steven J. Bell
Feeling overwhelmed? Try these tips for developing a personal current awareness program.

Reality check
Sheila R. Curl, Leslie J. Reynolds, Brent Mai, and Alexius E. Smith Macklin

Developing a digital asynchronous information strategies course.

Library buildings in a digital age, why bother?
Alice Harrison Bahr

Ten points to make to your adminstrators when proposing a new library or addition.

Brown University Library meets the preservation challenge
Eric C. Shoaf

A challenge grant leads to a preservation endowment.

Recipe for disaster or formula for success?
Anna Marie Johnson and Melissa Laning

Suggestions for creating a meaningful, collaborative library exercise for large groups.

Departments

In the News
News from the Field
Preservation News
Internet Reviews
New Publications
Grants and Acquisitions
People in the News
Fast Facts

Job Openings/Classified Ads
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THE WAY I SEE IT
Library research as a transgressive activity
Jeffrey Garrett

A look at the changing role of the librarian.

THE WAY I SEE IT
Publish or perish?
Rodger C. Lewis

Publication should be useful for tenure, not mandatory.

How to cover those summer reference hours
Scott Lanning

A novel approach to the nine-month contract at an academic library.