Carnegie summed it up best when he said:
"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public
Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor WEALTH
receives the slightest consideration."
You may not think it is a big deal, but it fundamentally changes the
relationship the public library has with its community and with its history.
Unlikely to lead to planetary apocalypse, indeed, but more utterly needless
chipping away at a proud heritage, you betcha!
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David McMenemy
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland
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-----Original Message-----
From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Loz Pycock
Sent: 05 November 2007 22:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Library books get insert adverts
David McMenemy wrote:
> The last place a person should get junk mail foisted on them is in a
public
> library. I'd like to know whether or not people get an opt out of this
like
> they do with the TPS and with their postal mail, or whether the inserts
are
> just always there?
>
> I suppose we'll be encouraged to look "positively" on the fact that
despite
> doom and gloom about libraries, the private sector clearly sees how to
> exploit the network, and that in the modern era public libraries are all
too
> eager to be exploited.
>
> Personally I find it dreadfully sad.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
Well, let's keep it in proportion, it's not like we're being asked to
donate a kidney or anything, and for sure
I'm not letting my employers near any of my 'precious bodily fluids',
giving out slips of paper is hardly the
thin end of a wedge that ends with planetary apocalypse.
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Loz
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