Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers

319 Does this sound like a song title to you? For some reason, Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves pops into my head. But no, it is the title of an upcoming article in our journal by Andy Revelle, Kevin Messner, Aaron Shrimplin, and Susan Hurst – all from Miami University in Ohio. It is an interesting study about how different types of academic library patrons (“opinion types”) approach the acceptance and use of e-books. We accepted this article for publication almost a year ago, but it will not see official print publication until our next issue in September 2012. Why the delay? C&RL, like most print based journals, has paper page limitations that allow us to print only about five articles per issue. We accept new articles at a faster rate, and over time a backlog develops, in our case, about a year backlog. We found a solution for making this backlog of accepted articles accessible by establishing an online preprint service several years ago. Now accepted articles, like “Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers: the Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes Toward E-books,” in its final manuscript form, short of only proof editing, sees the light of day shortly after its acceptance. You can find all the journal’s online preprints – more than thirty-five of them – by going to the C&RL Web site at http://crl. acrl.org/. I recommend bookmarking this web site and becoming familiar with its services. Not only will you find preprints, but online access to the current issue, all Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers