Comments on: Not missing, in action http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/not-missing-in-action/ The library voice of the radical middle. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/not-missing-in-action/comment-page-1/#comment-63167 walt Fri, 27 May 2011 15:05:25 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=3178#comment-63167 Gary, Very kind of you to say so–but I don’t believe I have any effect on the destiny of research libraries whatsoever. As for sponsorship, that’s spelled $pon$or$ship, and somehow I don’t see any revenue in sponsoring my own publication myself. That is, of course, what I’m doing (since there are small but real costs involved in the publication)… And, since I haven’t had a paid speaking engagement since 2009, C&I as a draw for other activities is also a non-starter, apparently. I don’t see that changing.

As for shared print repositories: Well, as ways to handle some of large library collections, they’re not at all new–UC had a shared regional facility in operation when I worked there, in the 1970s. As the only place print resides? I can only hope that doesn’t happen.

Neither of the books I’m working on has anything to do with collection maintenance. The one I’m working on at the moment is about no-cost/low-cost library support for micropublications (not microform publications but extremely short-run books); it’s a set of tools and techniques, primarily.

]]> By: Gary Frost http://walt.lishost.org/2011/05/not-missing-in-action/comment-page-1/#comment-63128 Gary Frost Fri, 27 May 2011 06:12:34 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=3178#comment-63128 Walt,
There is nothing wrong or even illogical with the supposition that the reader commentary and C@I sponsor that that you seek is yourself. Actually you may well have such a commanding grip on the destiny of research libraries that you would be smart to be your own closest reader.

I am struggling to understand implications of share print repository for print monographs and wonder if your new book will look directly at displacement of library interest in collection maintenance.
Gary, see ya’ in New Orleans

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