Article - "Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians"

[Jenny Levine]

	There's an interesting article on the Wired site about how this week's Supreme
Court decision in favor of freelance writers is affecting news librarians.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44905,00.html

"But rather than pay up or face billions in liabilities, publishers are deleting
tens of thousands of freelance articles spanning decades. So who will bear the
brunt of that extra work? 

'The librarians, of course,' said Tim Rozgonyi, assistant technology systems
editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  'The librarians will save the
publishers' bacon by cleaning up the data.'"

	It's nice to read a positive view of librarians and it goes on to discuss the
issue of the "holes" these deletions will leave in the archives.  It's also good
to know news librarians can add "Saved publisher's bacon by cleaning up the
data" to their resumes.  :)

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