URL for SUNY Morrisville College Library has changed!!

[Thomas Dowling]

>> The URL for the SUNY Morrisville College Library has chaged to:
>> 
>>     http://www.snymor.edu/pages/library/
>> 
>
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>> We ... had to reorganize the server directory structure.
>
>How many times have you seen messages like this?  Wouldn't it be nice if
>you never saw another one?

I've lost count, but I'm also starting to see a lot of messages like this from 
OCLC.  Were you folks told to go out and act as shills for your product on 
every list?

>
>Using PURLs (Persistent URLs), Mr. Drew could reorganize his server
>directory structure without needing to change the PURL.  He wouldn't need
>to make this announcement, and we wouldn't need to update every instance
>of the URL.
>
>Of course, 'tis better that Bill announce his URL change than not, but better
>still that he get a PURL.
>
>To find our more about PURLs or to get one (or more) for yourself, please 
>visit http://purl.oclc.org.
>

It walks like and advertisement and it quacks like an advertisement.  I think 
this is a great list for discussion of the PURL plan, but not a place to drum 
up business for it.

Thomas Dowling
(Suspicious of any post ending "To find out more, please visit...")
tdowling at ohiolink.edu