From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 10 18:21:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from web13605.mail.yahoo.com (web13605.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E466A37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010911012143.39268.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.16.193.228] by web13605.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:21:43 PDT Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:21:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Books on FreeBSD and local libraries To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010910153526.B65659@wopr.caltech.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:10:10AM -0700, Robert Clark wrote: > > > There are often people who are paid to buy books. > > > > I would imagine that they might resent outsiders > > determining what is in the library's collection. > > The libraries that I am familiar with express their resentment > by providing outsiders (whom they call "patrons") with little cards > or even online forms on which to specify their requests. > > While you might expect them to use these cards to start a bonfire > or similar festivity, I have found that they instead use them as an > indication of what books they might want to buy, and sometimes even > notify the "outsider" when the volume has been added to the > collection. So far, this always worked in my library: slowly, but always with a purchase and notification. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message