Tales from the crypt
It's not new but it was a shambles, and if you can find a
copy of=20
this citation:
KU=ACMI=D1SKI, Dariusz; McSE=C1N, Tony, BONNETT, Penelope.
Using new telecommunications technologies to bridge the
information gap:
satellite-based document delivery between bond and Warsaw.
In:
Information transfer: new age - new ways. (Proceedings of
the Third
European Conference of Medical Libraries). Bakker, Suzanne,
Cleland,
Monique, editors. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993.
then you will have a good laugh. The NLM will have a copy,
but=20
sadly mine has gone missing. It was an early attempt to
deliver=20
scanned documents by satellite and despite a huge amount
of=20
effort and top class technical wizardry, it never really
worked.
You're welcome to use it, and if you're really keen I
could fill=20
in the "now it can be told" gaps in the paper.
Regards,
Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Elsevier
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l lists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Rick Anderson
Sent: 26 July 2006 01:07
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: Seeking contributors for a new Against the Grain
column: "How We
Done It Bad"
* Please excuse cross-posting *
All of us are familiar with the "How We Done It
Good" article, a=20
piece in which a librarian writes about a project that he or
she=20
has recently completed successfully. Sometimes the
successful=20
projects involve refinements of old practices and workflows,
and=20
sometimes they are experimental new practices that have
proved=20
effective. In both cases, the point of the article is to
share=20
the good news and the details with colleagues, who might
be=20
inspired to try something similar in their own institutions.
For a new column, to be published irregularly in _Against
the=20
Grain_, I would like to invite submissions with an
opposite=20
orientation: the column will be called "How We Done It
Bad," and=20
it will feature stories of projects and experiments that
went=20
wrong -- maybe even horribly, tragically wrong. The point
of=20
these articles won't be so much to provide amusement
and/or=20
provoke sympathy, but rather to share lessons learned. How
can=20
_AtG_'s readers benefit from mistakes that all of us have
made?=20
Can we save each other some wasted time and embarrassment
(or=20
worse) by sharing our own stories of wasted time and=20
embarrassment?
Please send ideas and proposals to me at the email address
below.=20
I look forward to hearing from you!
(And yes, if you'd prefer to publish your experience
anonymously,=20
that's a definite possibility. However, please volunteer
only=20
your own stories -- not those of others who you feel have
failed=20
in some way.)
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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickandunr.edu
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