FW: Am. Assoc. of Publishers critical of librarians - more on th e AAP events

[Masters, Gary E]

Gary E. Masters
Librarian (Systems)
CDRH - FDA
(301) 827-6893 

-----Original Message-----
From:	Masters, Gary E 
Sent:	Friday, February 09, 2001 8:05 AM
To:	'slabash at UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU'
Cc:	Healy, Pat E.
Subject:	FW: Am. Assoc. of Publishers critical of librarians

Steve:

Sometimes all of these from and to confuse about whom I should reply to.

However, it seems like Pat S. is trying to start a fight and perhaps use it
to drum up funding as well as justify her job.  

Web4lib had a good discussion and one line of thought was not to go for the
bait.

Now there may or may not be an effort to "line up with the Bush
Administration" but until we hear from them it seems to be more taking
sides.

I would like to avoid this sort of reflex action.

Can't we just avoid this war and cut to the negotiated settlement?

Gary


Gary E. Masters
Librarian (Systems)
CDRH - FDA
(301) 827-6893 

-----Original Message-----
From:	Healy, Pat E. 
Sent:	Friday, February 09, 2001 7:31 AM
To:	Albersheim, Harriet; Conner, Joyce; Masters, Gary; Pytel, Ronald
Subject:	FW: Am. Assoc. of Publishers critical of librarians

Anyone care to make a comment.  This is the place.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Stephen Labash [SMTP:slabash at UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU]
<mailto:[SMTP:slabash at UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU]> 
Sent:	Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:30 PM
To:	Bill Sleeman
Cc:	marylib at list.umaryland.edu <mailto:marylib at list.umaryland.edu> 
Subject:	Re: Am. Assoc. of Publishers critical of librarians

Since Bill sent this to Marylib as well as to me I will respond accrodingly.
This issue has come up on the ALA Council list and there is the beginning of
a discussion of how to respond.  The issue at this moment is too new to have
a position formulated.
I'll keep you informed as to the discussion but if you have suggestions or
comments I'd like to hear them so I can indicate to Council what the
Maryland library community is thinking.  As you may know, ALA often seeks a
conciliatory approach to most issues but I'm not sure how this will play
out. 
Steve LaBash
Maryland Chapter Councilor


On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:25:29 -0500 Bill Sleeman <wsleeman at umaryland.edu
<mailto:wsleeman at umaryland.edu> > wrote:
	> 
	> Steve,
	> 
	> Thanks for sharing this. An important part of this discussion (at
least
	> for me) is what is our Association doing about it? Yesterday I
forwarded
	> the Post article to several folks at MLA and asked them if MLA was
going
	> to respond but have not heard, I hope they will. Nancy Kranich's
"hand
	> wringing" comments in the Post while accurate really didn't offer
much
	> in the way of a response to Schroeder's misrepresentations.
	> 
	> Libraries have long been the "bread and butter" for most of these
	> publishers, and we continue to be in most  instances. It seems
like it
	> is time to find a way to communicate our displeasure with the
AAP's
	> tactics where they will most feel it, their bottom line. I don't
know
	> what that the best approach to achieve that would be but I do
believe
	> that if the library community continues to hold to its usual tepid
	> response to this type of misinformation about what we do and what
we
	> stand for we will find ourselves increasingly on the margins of
the
	> information business.
	> 
	> Bill Sleeman
	> Bibliographic Control/Government Documents
	>  Librarian
	> Thurgood Marshall Law Library
	> The University of Maryland School of Law 
	>  
	> 
	> Stephen Labash wrote:
		> > 
		> >         Another posting from the ALA Council list.  It
appears that all
		> > those critical of our notion of free access are lining
up with the Bush
		> > administration, even our old "liberal" friends.  Steve
LaBash
		> > 
		> >

Stephen Peter LaBash
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