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Looking to the New Millennium: Strategic Planning for SLA Units

As we anticipate the turning of the year, we naturally remember the highlights of the past and look forward to the potential of the future. Michael Fosmire and Karen Croneis explain how strategic planning allows you to quantify what you do well, discover what you can improve, and provide a structure and direction for future activities of your unit.

To Bind or Not to Bind: Pros and Cons of Maintaining Paper Periodicals in Your Library's Collection

In the current tidal wave carrying publishers into digital formats for their journals publishing, basic questions are looming in the minds of many librarians: What is the future of paper periodicals in the library's collection? Should paper journals continue to be bound for reservation or long-term retention and should older bound volumes be maintained in house or stored off site and at what cost? Iris Anderson explores these controversial questions.

Circulating Laptop Computers at West Virginia University

Making laptop computers available to students proved to be a successful initiative at West Virginia University. Heather Lyle explains how the project got off the ground and some of the challenges that accompanied it.

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Executive Outlook

Creative Thinking—It Takes Time

Making News

Research Briefs

Are You Making What You're Worth?

Copyright Corner

Determining Fair Price

Money Matters

Planning for the Future of SLA

Communications Outlook

Getting a Grip on Government Informationn

Conference Countdown

Philadelphia Firsts

The Cutting Edge

Internet2 and Next Generation Internet

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