[Web4lib] city swallows library website

[Robert L. Balliot]

Greetings Andrew,

Those are great points!  By intent, I had not meant to imply
that they wanted to mislead, only that the perception of what is
important would be different.

I know of an example where clerk records older than about
100 years were put into dumpsters for disposal. Fortunately, they were
noticed and rescued by a local historical society.  The problem was that
there was not enough room in the vault and I guess that they figured
that if it was older than 100 years, it really was not necessary.

As a librarian and a digital archivist, I could not relate to their logic.
However, in their view, I think that they felt they were being
pragmatic by making it possible for more current information to be 
protected and more easily accessible.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mutch [mailto:amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us] 
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:02 AM
To: rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] city swallows library website

Robert,

As someone who works on both a government and a library web site, I'm
pretty  sure that most government web sites are not intentionally
inefficient. I'm sure there are sites run by organizations who seek to
limit access to information. But I think more sites are victims of more
mundane failings. These can include: