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M B Dunhouse and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse City of Boston Public Library Special Collections Departments



May I ask why we have to put up with this particular
individual's clearly unbalanced and constant attack on the
Massachusett's Library?  This is clearly not someone in his
right mind. I find his non-stop vitriol not only unreasoing,
unprofessional, and unpleasant, but also an incredible
waste of disk space for my email system.

For the record, I have no association with the Library
under attack; as far as I know, I don't even know anyone
there, but as a colleague, I share their frustration in
their dealings with someone this out-of-kilter.



On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:16:51 -0400 Don Saklad
<dsaklad@GNU.ORG> wrote:

| M. B. Dunhouse and her colleagues have not complied with
| state and local freedom of information principles with
| respect to archival collections of our Massachusetts
| Library of Last Recourse City of Boston Public Library
| Special Collections Departments.
|
| Collections have been misrepresented by omitting known
| information about the range and extent of collections even
| though some librarians are knowledgeable. Responsibilities
| for access have been passed back and forth and back again by
| referring public library users/customers/consumers to
| administrative offices like the president's offices where
| there no one is available readily enough with information
| about BPL archival collections and no one has a willing
| unfettered attitude with the public.
|
| The trust and responsibilities we have put in our BPL
| officials have been broken. Some individuals of our BPL
| board have not trusted the BPL president Bernie Margolis for
| misrepresenting public library transactions.
|
| Many people have been aware of lowered expectations of robust
| customer services when it involves our Massachusetts Library of
| Last Recourse City of Boston Public Library departments like
| interlibrary loan and special collections.
|
|
|
|
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Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Assistant Head and
Special Collections Librarian, Manuscripts Processing
Dept. of Special Collections
Stanford University Libraries
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall, rm. 351
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-3478    Fax: (650) 723-8690
Email: stevenmg@sulmail.stanford.edu
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