Re: Invoking Cloture (Again) on "Serials Crisis = Library Underfunding"

From: Albert Henderson <NobleStation_at_COMPUSERVE.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:05:34 -0400

Thanks for the kind words. I would add two items
to your list:

        (5) I have only responded to what I perceive
                as false statements made by the
                Enemies of the Library (as described
                by Crawford and Gorman in FUTURE LIBRARIES)
                and university profit goals (described by
                Veblen in THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA).

        (6) I have plenty of invitations to write,
                but preaching to the choir is not
                as interesting as facing the dragon
                in his lair with all my weapons --
                my personal library -- at my disposal.

Best wishes,

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
<70244.1532_at_compuserve.com>

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Date: 10/4/00 12:41 PM

RE: Re: Invoking Cloture (Again) on "Serials Crisis = Library Underfunding"

 
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Charles Oppenheim wrote:

> No need to apologise - every time Henderson spills more ink, he damns
> himself even more.

It's a bit of a sensitive point, though, and let me not conceal the
ways:

    (1) Like Albert, I too am persistent and repetitious in my
    postings.

    (2) Mine too are plastered across multiple lists.

    (3) My theme too can be reduced to a one-liner: "Free the give-away
    literature through self-archiving."

    (4) My position too, generates hostile reactions. (So does my
    style.)

So I ask myself: With what justification do I invoke cloture on Albert
and not on myself?

The murmured justification is that I am on the side of the Angels on
this one.

But who doesn't think he's on the side of the Angels...?

Stevan
Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT