medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> When I did library management i read Hopkins' interlibrary loan data
> monthly. (I was in lower middle management.) I concluded that if your
> library borrowed it 3 times you should have bought it.
shoulda, coulda, woulda.
why shoulda, if there are plenty of other Suckers out there to carry the load?
after all, how many folks could possibly want to read this really, really
obscure, hard copy stuff --esp. when it is going to be available on The
Innernets any minute?
coulda, yeah, coulda, IF someone had had the presence of mind to realize that
the Widow of Opportunity to purchase this really, really obscure, hard copy
stuff closes with quite remarkable rapidity, these daze.
i just noticed yesterday that one of the first of my aquisition suggestions is
now O.P. --published in 2005 and O.P. in '09.
of course, this obscure publication of the excavations of an important
Byzantine site will surely show up soon on amazon.com for $0.01 (plus
shipping), so i'll be able to buy a copy of it myself and gift it to my local
brain-dead Liebery Scientist.
woulda, yeah, woulda, IF the Peter Principle weren't Alive and Well in the
Indiana University Liberry System.
>ILL is not without costs, after all. Nothing is truly "free" in library
management.
true enough, and one of the greatest costs whenever a moronic Lieberry
Scientist with no knowledge whatever of what "scholarship" looks like --nor
any appreciation for it-- and who is, at the same time, firmly grounded in the
"Virtual" Reality of his own dilusions is how rapidly and easily a very decent
research library, 40 years in the making, can be run right into the ground.
c
> Tom Izbicki
>
> Christopher Crockett wrote:
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> >> As a librarian myself, I find the Star Trek scennario (Everything will
be
> >>
> > online on the final frontier) unlikely in the near future - if ever.
> >
> >> Tom Izbicki
> >>
> >
> >
> > yes, well that's obviously because you received your Lieberry Science
training
> > away back in the Dark Ages, before the Broad, Sunlit Uplands of the
> > Informatics Revolution, Tom.
> >
> > you're lucky you have tenure there or you would be a ripe candidate for
an
> > appropriate dose re-education.
> >
> > the guy i'm dealing with here at Indiana --who replaced B.J. Irving, who
> > *built* this quite good research Art library over a period of 40 years--
has
> > an M.F.A. (in Photography) and, of course, the obligatory M.L.S., and
actually
> > *explicitly* stated (in the public presentation he gave before he was
hired)
> > that it was clear to him that most everything needed, book-wise, would be
> > easily available on-line "within a few years" and implied (at least) that
most
> > all of this smelly old hard-copy shelf furniture we got lying around here
> > would be obsolete anyway shortly after that.
> >
> > of course, the above rant is just Sour Grapes on my part, since my most
recent
> > suggestions for book purchases have been greeted with the Brilliant
Response,
> > "Why don't you get this on Interlibrary Loan?"
> >
> > i can't really think of an argument against that.
> >
> > Rutgers does ILL, doesn't it?
> >
> > Problem Solved.
> >
> > i don't know why i didn't think of that...
> >
> > obviously, i need to take some Lieberry Science courses.
> >
> > c
> >
> >
> >
> >> Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >>
> >>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
> >>>
> >>> thanks, Jim.
> >>>
> >>> a beautiful building, that choir.
> >>>
> >>> yet another good item which my idiot, Post-Hard Copy Fine Arts
lieberrian
> >>> thinks our library doesn't need to buy because it will surely be
> >>>
> > available
> >
> >>> on-line reel soon.
> >>>
> >>> c
> >>>
> >>> ------ Original Message ------
> >>> Received: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:28 PM EST
> >>> From: Dr Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: [M-R] Recent titles
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> >>>>
> > culture
> >
> >>>> Thomas Izbicki wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Vezelay: le chevet de la Madeleine et le premier gothique bourguignon
> >>>>> (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> The author of this very solid treatment is Arnaud Timbert.
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Jim
> >>>>
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