[WEB4LIB] Re: Web-accessible info and library budget reductions?

[Euan Morton]

The wonderful Marylaine Block talks about this in her Ex Libris column of a
couple of weeks ago:
HOW MANY DEGREES OF SEPARATION?
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib129.html
which ends with this:
"Now, you can contact Governor Gary Locke at
http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/contact.htm, but you'll notice that he
says he'll only respond to Washington state residents.

So the degrees of separation challenge is this: forward this article and the
Seattle Times articles to somebody in the state of Washington and ask them
to go to the web site and send Governor Locke a message.

Quantity might do the trick. But so might quality, because after all, some
animals are more equal than others. I know that I'm only two degrees away
from Bill Gates, for instance, a citizen of Washington whose views tend to
get the attention of politicians.

Want to take the challenge?"

(On a lighter note here is a link that I meant to post some months ago for
the animated superhero librarian thread:
'More good stuff from Down Under: Warrior Librarian Weekly
http://www.geocities.com/bibliophist/IMHO/stereo.html')

Sláinte

Euan Morton, CIBER @ Xerox
Web Developer, Xerox Global Service Net
http://www.ciber-roch.com/

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Lee Jaffe
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:56 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Web-accessible info and library budget
> reductions?
>
>
> >"The governor's view is that many agencies are accessing most of their
> >information online."
>
> This seems to be a common (mis)conception about online resources, that
> the information just gets there magically.  There is the notion
> that online
> access means that there will no longer be any need for "intermediaries"
> such as publishers or libraries or journalists.  Who do they
> think puts the
> information online?
>
> -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
> --
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