From Carnegie to Internet2: Forging the Serials Future. Proceedings of the NorthAmerican Serials Interest Group, Inc. 14th Annual Conference, June 10–13, 1999,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaEd. by P. Michelle Fiander, Joseph C. Harmon and Jonathan D. Makepeace; New York:Haworth Information Press, 2000. 398 pp. $39.95 softcover ISBN 0789010356 (alsopublished asThe Serials Librarian38, 1/2 and 3/4)

This collection of 46 papers presented at the 14th annual NASIG (North American SerialsInterest Group) Conference in Pittsburgh provides a snapshot of the issues and topicsoccupying serials librarians in 1999. Two presentations from the pre-conference sessions arethe most substantive in the book. In the first Stuart Weibel, Jane Greeberg and RobinWendler discuss metadata, its creation and use for resource recovery, the Dublin Core, dataelements and search engines, and uses of metadata in libraries. The second pre-conferencepaper, by Nancy Rea and Stacey Aldrich, introduces scenario planning. The authors explainhow to project a future scenario for a library and then use it to plan for that possible future.

The pre-conference papers are followed by three plenary session papers, numerous issuessessions papers, and several workshop papers. Most of these are narrow in scope andcombine informed opinion, reports of projects and accomplishments, and practical advice.Few reference other resources or provide bibliographies. These papers provide an opportu-nity to read the conference presentations and make no pretense of expanding on the spokensession, being scholarly, or presenting research. The authors address topics familiar tolibrarians at the end of the 20th century, including full text databases, electronic serials, Websources, distance education, the PEAK Project, licenses for electronic resources, serialspricing, and scholarly communication. This collection would be useful as an overview ofcontemporary serials librarianship for library and information science students. A library thatmaintains a library science collection and wishes to have the complete NASIG conferenceproceedings will find this a worthwhile. It is not a collection that an individual practitionerwould consult over time.

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In the Picture: Preservation and Digitisation of European Photographic CollectionsBy Edwin Klijn and Yola de Lusenet; Amsterdam: European Commission onPreservation and Access, 2000. 69 pp. price not reported soft, ISBN 9069842947

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