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This article focuses on a paper written by Cornell University librarian Phil Davis, which suggests that the Emerald Publishing has reprinted content. In the hottest story to come out of the 24th annual Charleston Conference, held November 3-6 in Charleston, SC, Cornell University librarian Phil Davis presented a bombshell paper that detailed a pattern of republishing content without attribution at Emerald Publishing, formerly known as MCB University Press. Many of these articles, Davis noted, were published simultaneously in journals within the same or similar subject disciplines. The paper will be published in Library Resources & Technical Services next spring. Davis's work was prompted by Chuck Hamaker, a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who, while searching an Emerald database, learned that one article citing him was published in two different Emerald journals. He also notes, however, that library customers do have a significant complaint, since libraries pay subscription fees in advance for content they generally assume to be original.

This article discusses The Greenaway Plan, a contract plan worked out by the Free Library of Philadelphia with the J.B. Lippincott Company to receive before publication date one copy of each trade title published. At this time the Free Library has entered into agreements with a number of publishers and intends to continue as long as the publishers are willing to do so. This contract plan was designed to get new publications into the library for review purposes as far as ahead as publication date as possible. Public libraries for years have attempted to secure review copies of books prior to publication date in order to complete the library process as close to publication date as possible. From the publisher point of view, the number of duplicates order is of great interest, therefore the contract plan is only advantageous to them when the library can purchase multiple copies of a given title. Under the contract plan much paper work is eliminated. The reduction of clerical routine and elimination of time consuming problems saves money for the publisher. However much time is saved or cost of operation lowered, the test of the contract plan is whether new titles are being made available to the public more rapidly than previously.

Focuses on how inflation has affected libraries. Discussion of the policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to pursue an anti-inflationary policy by increasing interest rates to slow economic growth and take pressure off prices; Economic data which indicate that the threat of high inflation has passed; Outlook for prices to increase at a more rapid pace; Prices of books and periodicals, which have increased faster than prices of all consumer goods due to high paper costs; Idea that the growing demand for books has also caused publishers to increase their prices; View that higher prices are unfortunate because many public libraries are faced with budget problems.

Reports that "Library Journal" has added several columns to the News section. Description of the columns Book Notes, Professional Reading, Reviews, the Permanent Paper Honor Roll, and Automation Roundup; Statement that more publishers and vendors will appear in the journal's News pages.