[Phys-L] Re: Doppler film loop

["Monce, Michael N." <mnmon@CONNCOLL.EDU>]

It seems to be a common "malady" among librarians.  Ours has dropped =
not only the print subscriptions, but now also the electronic subscri=
ptions to many of the major journals.  They dropped our access to the=
 physics search engines because our "usage parameters didn't justify =
the subscription" without telling us.  I only found out when I told s=
ome of my students working on research to do a search form some artic=
les and they told me the search engine was gone.  Meanwhile the coffe=
e lounge in the library continues to expand as shelf space is taken d=
own for new booths
=20
             Mike Monce
             Connecticut College

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Subject: Re: Doppler film loop



Michael comments:

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Subject: Re: Doppler film loop

> Concerning the library throwing out something without checking, Joel
> said, "I hope you complained vociferously."

> We got a new librarian a couple years ago and she
> was concerned about lack of shelf space in the stacks, so she starte=
d
> "pruning" the collection of "old out-of-date worthless books."  With=
out
> asking she pruned (she literally threw in the trash) the Feynman
Lecture
> Series and the Berkeley Physics Series.  Of course I did not discove=
r
> this until they were gone.  When I complained, she said they were to=
o
> old and couldn't be of much value.  When I got angry and told her th=
at
> no bona fide librarian would throw out old books without checking th=
eir
> value she got angry back and told me it was her decision.

We are fortunate to have a library director who recognizes disciplina=
ry
responsibility for the collection.  She will periodically ask us to c=
ull
=66rom the collection those books which are not needed - but leaves i=
t to
our call what that means.  She also replaces anything weeded out with
materials that we ask for.

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     "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than

    sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

                                          - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Dr. George Spagna
Chair, Physics Department
Randolph-Macon College
P.O. Box 5005
Ashland, VA 23005-5505

phone: (804) 752-7344
fax: (804) 752-4724
e-mail: gspagna@rmc.edu
http://faculty.rmc.edu/gspagna
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