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David McMenemy wrote: > It's all about interpretation, isn't it. The bottom line is we are > advocating CHARGING companies to insert their junk mail into books. That > means people with wealth have access to people who go to a library to simply > borrow a book, not be sold something. > So we get some extra cash, which can go into the bookfund. I'm really not seeing what is so bad here. My concern would be that this would almost certainly end up as extra rubbish in our libraries/on our streets > The fact people in the profession think that is simply progress beggars > belief! > Who has defined it as progress? Some see it as inevitable, some see it as a useful source of extra cash. > I was waiting for the first person to use the old "do nothing and living in > the past" line of persuasion. The old classic, I don't really have a > positive argument, but I will paint you as old fashioned, etc. > Whereas you are obviously putting forward a well-thought out and balanced counter-argument based on.... what exactly? "This isn't what we would have done in the past"? I really hope your next post involves the phrase "I take old-fashioned as a badge of pride". > This is clearly not about moving services forward at all, it is a cynical > revenue raising gimmick that is an insult to users and the service. It is a > wonderful sacrifice at the altar of managerialism, though, which is why I'm > sure many obsessed with that mantra think it a wonderful idea. Could you please explain exactly how this is 'a wonderful sacrifice at the altar of managerialism' because I genuinely do not understand what you mean. > > > The money raised from this will do little or nothing to stave off closures > other than make our current commercially obsessed government smile from ear > to ear. Frankly that is typical of the scare stories people use to justify > the unjustifiable. You don't sacrifice your values to curry favour with > people who detest the concept of what we do in the first place. > Isn't this just anti-advertising being dressed up as something more noble? I mean, I do actually agree with the general thrust of what you are saying, I'm just dubious as to how it's being said. > But then I'm old fashioned. > Oh, I was so close... -- - -- Loz "I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?" - Carre Otis. "Singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can't sing, it's kind of like insulting God." - Fergie, Black Eyed Peas -This email address can be temperamental, so you can also try [log in to unmask]