[WEB4LIB] Re: The "Commericialized" Library

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I Have been receiving your mail along with numerous irrelevant ones without my authorization. 
Should it be an error, you are invited to clear the problem at your side or at your provider's by removing my address from your list, otherwise I would be compelled to daily flood your box with 1500 silly messages from our 245 different addresses throughout the world until you stop flooding ours.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gerry Mckiernan 
  To: Multiple recipients of list 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 7:25 PM
  Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: The "Commericialized" Library


  Hello Catherine/

  >>> "Catherine Ingram" <Catherine.Ingram at elmhurst.org> 08/08/00 10:55AM >>>

  >About linking to Amazon or B&N or whomever...

  >Just a note...  I know that some public libraries have had complaints from >the local "little guy" book stores.  As in:  "Why are you promoting Goliath >(Amazon, B&N) and ignoring David's Book store?!". 

         Yes. I now recall e-list discussion on the topic.

  > Don't forget that if a local bookseller is paying taxes in your comminity they >may have cause to complain.  And often, the local bookstore is the one >who will be supporting your summer reading program.  

          These are valid points, however ....

  Linking *may* stimulate a user to visit his/her local library to borrow the book
  and/or to purchase the book from the *local* book store.

  /Gerry McKiernan
  Commercialized Librarian
  Iowa State University
  Ames IA 50011

  gerrymck at iastate.edu 

             "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Link to It"
                             With Apologies to Alan Kay
  c: Web4Lib


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