On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Steven C. Perkins wrote:
> The following is from the Chronicle of Higher Education and was reported in
> EDUPAGE and INFOSYS:
>
> likely will not have had much experience with computer technology
> when they show up on campus, unless they've spent a lot of time
> hanging out with the school librarian. Only 59% of teachers surveyed
> reported access to multimedia computers, and only 20% had an
> Internet connection. However, half of the school librarians surveyed
> had Internet accounts and 85% had multimedia computers. (Chronicle
> of Higher Education 3/31/95 A19)
>
>
> B&M is moving in the wrong direction.
>
How do you know in what direction B&M is heading? We don't really know
_Yet_ why they have fired the entire staff of only _one_ of their libraries.
I'd think that if it was a firm-wide decision, library staffs from at
least one other branch would have suffered the same _apparantly_ unfair fate.
My office received an anonymous phone call yesterday, who stated "This
was not an economic decision."
Would it be out of line to suggest that before we call for task forces
and boycotts, before we call imaginary replacement librarians scabs, we
sit tight for a while? Why act on speculation?
Oh yes, I should also mention, in reply to an earlier post....
Cassidy Cataloguing does contract work for special libraries.
Of our 60 clients, 45 are law libraries, 40 of which are private law firm.
Also, for those who have requested the statistics Joni mentioned in her
post, she's out of the office today and those files are kept on her PC
under password. To put it another way.... come Monday the stats are in
the mail.
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Cassidy Cataloguing mcassidy@well.sf.ca.us
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