Vol 59, No 5 (1998)

September

Table of Contents

Editorial

Let Us Stop Apologizing for Qualitative Research
DONALD E. RIGGS
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404-405

Articles

Private Liberal Arts Colleges and the Costs of Scientific Journals: A Perennial Dilemma
Paul D. Burnam
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406-420
An Analysis of Articles by College Librarians
Mickey Zemon, Alice Harrison Bahr
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421-431
Perceptions of Discriminatory Practices and Attitudes: A Survey of African American Librarians
Cynthia Preston
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433-444
Citation Patterns to Traditional and Electronic Preprints in the Published Literature
Gregory K. Youngen
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448-456
Library Home Page Design: A Comparison of Page Layout for Front Ends to ARL Library Web Sites
David L. King
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457-464
Selected Reference Books of 1997–98
Eileen McIlvaine
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466-478

Book Reviews

Budd, John M. The Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. 372p. $58 cloth (ISBN 156308614X); $35 paper (ISBN 1563084570). LC 97-35962.
Clay Williams
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483-484
Electronic Information Environment and Academic Libraries: Proceedings of Japan–U.S. Library Conference 1996=Denshika Sareru Joho to Toshokan. Ed. Matsushita Hitoshi. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Co. Ltd., 1997. 252p. Unpriced.
Raymond Lum
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484-486
Saenger, Paul Henry. Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Pr. (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture), 1997. 480p. $49.50, alk. paper (ISBN 0‐8047-2653-1). LC 96-35088.
Jeffrey Garrett
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486-488
Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War. Ed. Christopher Simpson. New York: The New Pr., 1998. 273p. $27.50 (ISBN 1-56584-387-8).
Laura Nader
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488-490
The Role of Professional Associations. Ed. Joy Thomas. Champaign: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Library Trends 46 (fall 1977): 229–425. $18.50.
William Miller
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490-491
Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Pr., 1997. 156p. $45 (postpaid from author/publisher) (ISBN 0-9613921-2-6). LC 97-127584.
Michael Ryan
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491-493
Information Imagineering: Meeting at the Interface. Eds. Milton T. Wolf, Pat Ensor, and Mary Augusta Thomas, for the Library and Information Technology Association and the Library Administration and Management Association. Chicago and London: ALA, 1998. 255p. $36, alk. paper (ISBN 0‐8389-0729-6). LC 97-44296.
Ed Tallent
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493-494