Colleagues
For your information following the previous message about the above subject I received
- a telephone call from somebody (a certain Patrick) pretending to represent the British Library who said he does not understand what the problem of this thread is. Oh I am happy to see you are a real person, I said. Is this database accessible in your science reading rooms? I asked. He anged the phone.
- A desperate message from a University librarian who wrote:
"Brunella - I am no longer concerned with electronic/digital
resources/databases (subscriptions, invoices, contracts, authentication,
statistics, access problems, etc., etc.)"
Either it is authentic or not it says a lot about the failure of training courses targeted to librarians and information professionals whereas what is really missing is an education to work in digital spaces.
The word "engagement" has been eliminated in the last edition of EPSRC Guide to Funding, I am pleased to learn. So that programme managers may wish to:
1) define better ways to assure capability and risk management than Facebook applications and situation comedies - starting with the identification of primary resources and the definition of policies;
2) Acquire dedicated independent research and change human resource management.
Brunella Longo
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
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Sent: 16 August 2011 10:53
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Subject: British Standards Online Database
Colleagues
Still no news and on top of that also libel, unsolicited adverts for
"digital derivatives" (exchange of favours they arranged with
publishers) and slander apparently from people working at the BL in the
previous three or four messages. This outrage is unacceptable.
Does anybody know if the British Library has been advised about damages
they are causing denying researchers and practitioners access to the
British Standards Online Database, being theirs the only LEGAL point of
access to the database in the entire Greater London area?
Do they think new endeavours in information, data and records management
(that is what I am scaffolding myself) but also in transports, industry,
finance, STM and others sectors should be designed with the help of
witches and wizards instead of project managers?
I would be grateful if they could be also reminded that either as a
witch or as a copyright assurance manager I am always employable since
my prolonged unpaid work they categorised as "engagement" in the
interest of the community may end in huge request for compensation. No
nibbles.
Regards
Brunella Longo
Information Management Adviser, Project Manager Prince2 Practitioner,
Independent Scholar
brunellalongo.co.uk
7 New College Court
London NW3 5EX
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