At 08:49 18.11.98 -0500, you wrote:
>Two comments as a librarian:
>
>1. Any librarian who makes a pirate copy of PLD should be fired for
>unethical & illegal conduct
>
Dear Tom,
You are, of course, absolutely right. I would even go farther and consider
(at least for a moment) to fire a few more people, e.g. librarians like
yourself who accepted the C-H prices in the first place instead of siding
firmly with those institutions and individuals who cannot afford them ;-)
>2. Any academic library given an extra $1,000 is unlikely to plow it
>into a humanities database as first choice.
So how come that your library was willing to pay $45.000 (or whatever it
was) for the PLD?
Most academic libraries,
>unfortunately, are run on the science-is-god principle. The extra K is
>likely to be plowed into meeting the ever inflating prices of science
>journals. (My opinions on how my predecessors got themselves trapped into
>this situation would blow out my PC.) C-H has chosen a market niche, and
>enough of us have bought it to make AASS seem commercially desirable to
>them. Personally, I would rather have it at a lower price; but much of
>my work as editor & translator depends on PLD, esp. when pursuing vague
>references to "Augustine says" etc.
I seem to understand everything that you write, except the word "but" in
your last sentence.
Otfried
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