Yo ho ho (this isn't about Ken Dowlin any more)

[Edward Spodick, HKUST Library, 2358-6743]

At 11:16 AM 24/1/97, Walt Crawford wrote:
>I've charitably assumed that the person who copied an
>entire San Francisco Chronicle article from The Gate
>did so naively. That's clearly not the case with those
>now advocating theft as an ethical course. I don't buy
>it. We don't all make our livings from universities or
>government handouts;

And even those of us who do have certain professional ethical
responsibilities. :)


>                        I regard our work in processing
>information, making sense of it, and making it useful
>to others as being nonetheless valuable...and worthy of
>compensation.

To me, this is one of the most important points I have seen mentioned.
Isn't this something which we, as a profession, have been arguing for
decades (or longer)?  If even those of us in Librarianship do not consider
information processing, value adding, etc., to be valuable then perhaps
the notoriously low salaries available to much of the profession are
quite justified?  Hmmm.

-Spode

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