[Web4lib] next generation opac mailing list

[David Dorman]

At 09:31 AM 06/06/2006, Marc Truitt wrote:
>David J. Fiander wrote:
>>The only thing wrong with this idea is the name of the list.  I 
>>would read it as "non-governmental organizations 4 lib".
>Well, that risk is always going to be present.  For example, there 
>is that other well-know discussion list...
>
>         "office of strategic services 4 lib"
>
>C'est la vie.
>
>- mt

A cute answer, but not convincing.  NGO, as a well-known acronym 
meaning non-governmental organization, is much more associated with 
libraries and much more likely to be misconstrued by librarians than 
OSS.  The Office of Strategic Services does not exactly come to mind 
when OSS and libraries are written of together.

David


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