Author: Peter Gellatly
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: innovations, interactions, agencies, subscription, libraries
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 1988-11-16
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0866568425
ISBN-13: 9780866568425

In this volume, the library-agency relationship is discussed from various points of view. Contributors focus on the use of subscription agents worldwide--in Africa, the Middle East, and Great Britain. Up-to-the-minute information on the effects of automation on the library-agency relationship is explored, including serials management systems; automated serials control over selection, acquisition, and utilization; serials databases using subscription agency files; and a most useful bibliography on automated subscription agency utilities and services.

Author: William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: asides, national, reviewpm, notes, subscription, own, goddam, cancel
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0465002420
ISBN-13: 9780465002429

Four decades of William F. Buckley Jr.’s famous (and infamous) wit in a volume that will be the political gift book of the season. Who knew that William F. Buckley Jr., the quintessential conservative, invented the blog decades before the World Wide Web came into existence? National Review, like nearly all magazines, has always published letters from readers. In 1967 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and Buckley, the editor, began a column called "Notes & Asides," in which he personally answered the most notable and outrageous letters. The selection

Author: Merriam-Webster
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Keywords: mac, rom, online, subscription, win, notched, webster’s, collegiate, dictionary, thumb, merriam
Number of Pages: 1664
Published: 2003-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0877798095
ISBN-13: 9780877798095

Item #: MER9. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th EditionFully revised print content. Features more than 225,000 definitions, 700 illustrations and more than 10,000 new words. Special sections including a Handbook of Style. Includes easy-to-install Windows /Mac CD-ROM and free, one-year subscriptions to the new collegiate website. Thumb-notched hardcover edition with jacket. 1,664 pages. Customers also search for: Collegiate Dictionary;MERRIAM-WEBSTER;Merriam-Webster’s;Reference Book;Thumb-Notched Hardcover, 081413008098

Author: Arthur Krystal
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: subscription, reader, mid, century, clubs, book, trilling, lionel, uncollected, readers, writings, auden, barzun, jacques, company
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743202627
ISBN-13: 9780743202626

In 1951, Jacques Barzun, W. H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling joined together to form the editorial board of the Readers’ Subscription Book Club. Thus began a venture unique in the annals of American culture. Never before or since have three such eminent intellectuals collaborated to bring books to the attention of the general public. Now, a half century later, A Company of Readers tells the story of this extraordinary partnership and presents for the first time a selection of essays from the publications of the Readers’ Subscription Book Club and its successor, the Mid-Century Bo