[WEB4LIB] RE: Disturbing News

[Daniel Messer]

    Yet the article mentions that the USGS called for the destruction of a water
survey. Some librarians asked to do the same thing and pull the CD for future
use. Federal officials did not agree and demanded that the disk be destroyed. So
while some things may be saved by leniency, what is lost by demand?

Dan

Adriana Edward-Johnson wrote:

> A call to the office of the Associate Director for Water put me in touch
> with Glen Patterson. He was sympathetic to a librarian's hesitancy to
> destroy information that, at a future time, may prove useful for "peaceful
> purposes" (my phrase, not his). He agreed that that an alternative,
> appropriate response would be to remove the CD from our shelves and suppress
> our cataloging record until such time as it may be OK to put the CD back on
> the shelf. Furthermore, he agreed that I could share this information with
> the depository community."

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Mondai wa
The subject in question...
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Daniel Messer, Technology Instructor
Yakima Valley Regional Library
102 N 3rd St Yakima, WA 98901
(509) 452-8541 x712
dmesser at yvrls.lib.wa.us
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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