Held November 3-6, 2010, the theme of the 2010 Charleston Conference, the annual event that explores issues in book and serial acquisition, was "Anything Goes." 2010 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the conference, and the theme revealed a sense of uncertainty about the future of librarianship in a digital environment marked by rapidly changing systems and practices. The conference focused on topics and themes in collection development, journals and serials management, technology and product development, collaboration between and among libraries and their communities, and managing e-book and monograph collections.

The Charleston Conference continues to be a major event for information exchange among librarians, vendors, and publishers. Conference attendees always remark on the informative, thought-provoking sessions and the collegial atmosphere where information professionals can talk directly about issues facing their industry. This volume shares the best of the presentations and panels..

Katina P. Strauch is Head of Collection Development at the Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, founder of the Charleston Conference, and editor of Against the Grain, the journal for libraries, publishers, and vendors, which is published six times a year; Beth R. Bernhardt is Electronic Resources Librarian at the Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and Leah H. Hinds is Assistant Director of the Charleston Conference.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Plenary Sessions
Let Them Eat... Everything: Embracing a Patron-Driven Future, by Rick Anderson, and reported by Heather Miller
A Consortium for Sharing Primary Materials, by Joseph J. Esposito and reported by Heather Miller
Who Do We Trust? The Meaning of Brand in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Librarianship, by Anthony Watkinson, Kent Anderson, Dean Smith, Hazel Woodward, and Allen Renear, and reported by Audrey Powers
Charleston Conference Observatory: Are Social Media Impacting in Research?, by David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, and Deanna Wamae, and reported by Lettie Conrad
The Tower and the Free Web--the Role of Reference, by John Dove, Phoebe Ayers, Casper Grathwohl, Jason B. Phillips, Michael Sweet, and reported by Som Linthicum
Full-Spectrum Stewardship of the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research, by Brian E. C. Schottlaender, and reported by Margaret M. Kain
Executives' Roundtable, by T. Scott Plutchak, Youngsuk (YS) Chi, Kent Anderson, and reported by Deb Thomas
When Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking Your Library Collections, by Roger Schonfeld, Sue Woodson, and reported by Beth Hoskins
What Can Our Readers Teach Us?, by John Sack and reported by Lettie Conrad
"I Hear the Train A Comin' - LIVE, by Greg Tananbaum and Joseph J. Esposito, and reported by Ramune K. Kubilius
Creating a Trillion-Field Catalog: Metadata in Google Books, by Jon Orwant, and reported by Anna Fleming
Efficient and Effective Funding of Open Access 'Books', by Frances Pinter and reported by Ramune K. Kubilius
The Long Arm of the Law, by Ann Okerson, William Hannay, and Lauren K. Schoenthaler, and reported by Angela Rathmel
Preconferences
E-Everything, Putting It All Together, by Peter McCracken
Innovative Practices in Electronic Resources and Acquisition Management, by Ryan Weir, Geoffrey P. Timms, Kelly A. Smith, Regina Koury, and Denise Pan
Budget/Fundraising
Bringing It All Together: An Integrated Approach to the Stewardship of Development-Funded Acquisitions, by Anne C. Elguindi, Jennifer S. McMillan, and Kari Schmidt
Content Development
What Do Those Collection Numbers in Resources for College Libraries Really Mean? , by Susan K. Beidler
What's in Your Aggregator?: Context, Currency, and Stability of Full-Text Databases, by Mary Beth Chambers, Mariyam Thohira, and Nancy Sprague
Taking a Step Back, To Move Forward, by Stephen Dew and Michael Crumpton
Collection Intelligence: Using Data Driven Decision Making in Collection Management, by Annette Day and Hilary Davis
Disaster Mental Health: Building a Research Level Collection, by Ardis Hanson and Claudia J. Dold
Changing Landscape in Sheet Music Publishing: from Monks to Mutopia, by Ana Dubnjakovic
Deselecting the Monographs Collection: One Library's Adventure in Weeding, by Margaret Foote and Betina Gardner
OARS: Toward Automating the Ongoing Subscription Review, by Geoffrey P. Timms and Jonathan H. Harwell
Wherefore Art Thou, RoMEO? -- A Review of Open Access/Public Access Definitions and Policies, by Betty Landesman
Consensus-Based Assessment for Re-Envisioning a Reference Collection, by Michael A. Matos and Patricia J. West
Moving from Print to Electronic Journals: A Study of College and University Libraries in Indiana, by Jo McClamroch
Weeding with Robots: Managing Collections in an Automated Retrieval System, by Patricia Bravender, Robert Kelly, Linda Masselink, and Hazel McClure
Looking Forward by Looking Back: Books at the End of the Book, by Darby Orcutt and Genya O'Gara
The GIST Gift & De-Selection Manager: Redesigning Gift and Weeding Workflow in the Library, by
Kate Pitcher
Chinese Scientific Journals: An Assessment of the Need at Cornell, by Jinxia Huang and Marty Schlabach
Patron Driven Acquisitions: The Future of Collection Development?, by Rebecca Schroeder, Tom Wright, and Robert Murdoch
How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity and Stereotypical Generalizations that Exist in Asian- American Children's Books, by Tadayuki Suzuki
Changes in Print Paper During the 19th Century, by AJ Valente
The Other Side of the Coin: De-Selecting Material from a Research Library's Storage Facility, by Suzanne M. Ward
Issues in Determining Cost for Cost Per Use Calculations, by Virginia Kay "Ginger" Williams
CONSORTIA
Core Resources on Time Series Analysis for Academic Libraries: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, by Sarah H. Jeong and Seong-Tae Kim
EDUCATION
Using DASH! for Digital Repositories: A Case Study of the East Texas Baptist University Library, by Cynthia L. Peterson
Teaching Electronic Resource Management, by Sheri Ross
END USERS/USE STATISTICS
Library Connections: A Non-Linear Approach to Planning, Marketing and Creating the Positive User Experience, by Leah M. Dunn
FORMAT
E-Paper, LED, OLED, and the Strategic Positioning of Hardware Vendors and Publishers: What It Means to Libraries, by Stephen Patton
MANAGEMENT/ORGANIZATION
From My Library to Our Library: Changing a Culture in Tough Times, by Robert Alan and Lisa German
The "Get It" Department: Oregon State University's Strategic Realignment of Collection Services, by Faye A. Chadwell and Jane Nichols
Jumping into the New Waters of Librarian Promotion and Appointment: How We Dove in and Survived, by Bridget Euliano and Carmel Yurochko
Coping with the Short Goodbye: Handling Unanticipated Change, by Elisabeth Knight, Nancy Richey, and Roxanne Spencer
Academic Libraries Without Print, by Allen McKiel, Jim Dooley, Robert Murdock, and Carol Zsulya
Getting to Go: Strategic Use of External Expertise in Leveraging Change, by Alison Nussbaumer, Wendy Merkley, and Brenda Mathenia
OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
Open Researcher and Contributor Identification (ORCID), by Michael J. Foley and David L. Kochalko
(Almost) No Code Web 2.0: Bringing Library Collections to Your Users Where They Live, by Carolyn Klatt, Kevin Hatfield, and Kim Meeks
Pay-Per-View Isn't All Wet: Providing Articles Can Save the Budget, by Barbara MacAlpine
From Normalizing Serials to Normalizing Ships: Improving Access to All Types of Digitized Resources, by Peter McCracken
How do you spell PDA!? Patron Driven Acquisitions Local to Consortium Print to E Pilots to Programs: There's a Model for Everyone! , by Lynn Wiley and Tina E. Chrzastowski
TECHNICAL ISSUES, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSING
NISO's IOTA Working Group: Creating an Index for Measuring the Quality of OpenURL Links, by Rafal Kasprowski and Susan Marcin
License Management: Making It Fun and Flexible with CORAL, by Andrea Langhurst and Xan Arch
Analysis of Claiming Print Journals at the University of Manitoba Libraries, by Lisa O'Hara and Pat Milne
Making Do: ERM Alternatives, by Fran Rosen and Jennifer Dean
Putting the Library Back into Digital Libraries: Indexing Newspaper Digitization Projects on the Web, by Matthew Loving