Three academic librarians, a library administrator, a serials librarian, and a collection development librarian, discuss pressing serials issues as they plan for a move to a new library building. Professional perspectives on serials are juxtaposed as they grapple with issues such as limited storage for paper journals, rising costs of serials, and problems related to serials check-in, e-resources, and document delivery. IntroductionRegular readers of this column will notice a new name in place of our esteemed past coeditor, Markel Tumlin, who is devoting himself to full-time research this year. I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop with Markel a number of years ago at a North American Serials Interest Group conference, and since then I have enjoyed following Markel's contributions to this column in Serials Review. I believe I speak for many other readers when I say that his wit and eloquent writing style in the column were much appreciated and will be missed. I look forward to working with and learning from my experienced and talented coeditor Kay Johnson as we carry on the column's tradition of hosting a platform for stimulating serials discussion where voices in the serials community-some in harmony, others in counterpoint, and others perhaps even dissonant-can come together to find perspective about serials in the "balance point."

Three academic librarians, a library administrator, a serials librarian, and a collection development librarian, discuss pressing serials issues as they plan for a move to a new library building. Professional perspectives on serials are juxtaposed as they grapple with issues such as limited storage for paper journals, rising costs of serials, and problems related to serials check-in, e-resources, and document delivery. IntroductionRegular readers of this column will notice a new name in place of our esteemed past coeditor, Markel Tumlin, who is devoting himself to full-time research this year. I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop with Markel a number of years ago at a North American Serials Interest Group conference, and since then I have enjoyed following Markel's contributions to this column in Serials Review. I believe I speak for many other readers when I say that his wit and eloquent writing style in the column were much appreciated and will be missed. I look forward to working with and learning from my experienced and talented coeditor Kay Johnson as we carry on the column's tradition of hosting a platform for stimulating serials discussion where voices in the serials community-some in harmony, others in counterpoint, and others perhaps even dissonant-can come together to find perspective about serials in the "balance point."

Book Reviews 421tempts and succeeds in so many different arenas. Not only is there information on American, English, and transatlantic bookselling (covering such minutiae as the bindings that books were shipped in), but also much social history and even the beginnings of a revisionist view of Charleston's intellectual life. The evolving position of women is noted, as is the changing relationship between the once-colonial city and country with Great Britain. The rather dry title of this volume is perhaps the only thing one can fault; but then it is very difficult to do a book of such scope and accomplishment justice.-Harlan Greene, Charleston County Public Library.

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