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Coffman, 1999, Building Earth’s Largest Library, Searcher, 7, 34 Mikel, 2000, The Earth’s Largest Library, School Library Journal, 46, 17 Prior, 2000, Amazon, DSN Retailing Today, 39, 18 Lysbeth B. Chuck, “Book Soup: Electronic Commerce and the Future of Publishing,” Searcher 6 (January 1998): 40-52; Saul Hansell, “A Surprise from Amazon: Its First Profit,” New York Times (January 23, 2002), sec. C, p. 4 Hansell, “A Surprise from Amazon,” p. 4 Coffman, “Building Earth’s Largest Library,” pp. 34-47 Peter Jasco, “Enhancements of Systems and Products with Web Resources,” Computers in Libraries 22 (February 2002): 33-35; Steve Coffman, “The Response to ‘Building the Earth’s Largest Library, ’ ” Searcher 7 (July/August 1999): 28-32. Andrew K. Pace, “Marketing Our Strengths,” Computers in Libraries 20 (September 2000): 63-65 Pace, “Marketing Our Strengths,” p. 65 Jose-Marie Griffiths, “Deconstructing Earth’s Largest Library,” Library Journal 125 (August 2000); 44-47; Walt Crawford, “Gutting America’s Local Libraries: Informal Comments on ‘Building Earth’s Largest Library’” [Online]. Available: http://home.att.net/∼wcc.libmedx/gutfull.htm/ (accessed December 5, 2000). A printed copy of this material may be obtained from the authors Crawford, “Gutting America’s Local Libraries” The status of the borrower cannot readily be determined from the circulation system and was not recorded in the study Chappell, 1993, Meeting Undergraduate Literature Needs with ILL/Document Delivery, Serials Review, 19, 81, 10.1016/S0098-7913(05)80032-2 For an overview of interlibrary loan transaction costs in research libraries, see Mary E. Jackson, “Loan Stars: ILL Comes of Age,” Library Journal 123 (February 1998): 44-47 Coffman, “Building Earth’s Largest Library,” pp. 34-47 Ibid For a discussion of the feasibility and merits of including table of contents data in the online catalog, see, for example, James E. Rush, “Monograph Tables of Contents in Support of Acquisitions and Online Catalog Access,” Information Services & Use 17 (1997): 261-246 Barry, 2000, Delivering the Personalized Library, Library Journal, 125, 49 Terry Ballard, “An On-line Notification System for New Library Acquisitions,” Library Software Review 14 (Summer 1995): 69-71; Peter Konshak, “Coding a Custom E-Mail Alert Service for New Books,” Computers in Libraries 21 (February 2001): 24-28 O’Connor, 2000, Trading Net Privacy at E-checkout, Inter@ctive Week, 11, 10 Chmera, 1998, Privacy and Confidentiality Issues, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, 47, 9 18 United States Code, section 2710 (1994) About Amazon.com [Online]. Available: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/company-info.html/ (accessed April 10, 2002). A printed copy of this material may be obtained from the authors