April 2009 Contents
Editorial
ARTICLES
“Wholly Visionary”
The American Library Association, the Library of Congress, and the Card Distribution Program
Martha M. Yee
Series Authority Control at Oregon State University after the Library of Congress’s Series Policy Change
Richard E. Sapon-White
NOTES ON OPERATIONS
Acquisitions Globalized: The Foreign Language Acquisitions Experience in a Research Library
Judit H. Ward
Creating Organization Name Authority within an Electronic Resources Management System
Kristen Blake and Jacquie Samples
Descriptive Metadata for Digitization of Maps in Books: A British Library Project
Kimberly C. Kowal and Christophe Martyn
Automated Metadata Harvesting: Low-Barrier MARC Record Generation from OAI-PMH Repository Stores Using MarcEdit
Terry Reese
BOOK REVIEW
Index to Advertisers
Cover art reprinted from Washington. View from the Military Asylum [St. Elizabeth’s Hospital], artist unknown [ca. 1861], held at the Machen Collection, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.