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Re: Sony Barari's literary exploits



I'm not a member of the profession, but I've been following the story on the
list serve. What I can't understand is how so many people can get so upset
by a man who was named after a television set.
--
Marc Zeitschik, President
PRAXESS ASSOCIATES
"At the Crossroads of Preservation and Access"
http://www.e-praxess.net/



> From: James Stimpert <James.Stimpert@JHU.EDU>
> Reply-To: James Stimpert <James.Stimpert@JHU.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:17:23 -0500
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Sony Barari's literary exploits
>
> For those who don't get the Library Journal Academic News Wire (a
> weekly journal delivered via email), here's an interesting followup
> story to the flap last week concerning Sony Barari's literary exploits
> at UCLA.  Someone wondered last week if librarians were as upset as
> archivists over Barari's satire.  Apparently they were, and since
> there's more of them than there are of us, here's what happened:
>
>> Library Journal Academic News Wire: March 12, 2002
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> UCLA LIBRARY SLAM DOWNS LISNEWS
>> Student Sony Barari says he was merely trying to be a good
>> satirist when he ripped librarians in a recent article in
>> the UCLA's student newspaper the DAILY BRUIN. But
>> librarians reacted so strongly to his barbs that they
>> crippled LISnews, Blake Carver's popular news and views web
>> site for librarians. Carver says that traffic to his site
>> tripled after posting the UCLA story, overloading his
>> service provider, who suspended the site. "Normally we do
>> about 1200 unique visitors on a weekday," Carver told the
>> LJ Academic Newswire. "But since [Barari's piece] we've
>> been seeing double and triple that, even on the weekend."
>> Carver, however, said he's not angry with his server for
>> derailing LISNews, "I'm not mad at them for shutting me
>> down, they have a lot of other clients on that server, and
>> it's important I don't slow things down for hundreds of
>> other sites."
>>
>> Carver did have some criticism for his peers for their
>> unprecedented outburst. "In that past some stories have
>> been popular, like the interview with Pat Schroeder from
>> the AAP, but nothing like this." Carver says that while
>> librarians offered an overwhelming response to Barari's
>> sentiments that librarians are "socially inept housewives,"
>> whose work could be done by a "trained monkey with a fancy
>> hat," their responses were hardly profound. "I saw little
>> depth or insight to most public reactions. I'd like to
>> think those were largely fueled by emotion and not
>> indicative of the silent majority. There seems to be a few
>> vocal and emotional librarians who felt threatened or
>> offended by this story, and felt the need to react in a
>> very unprofessional way." Carver says things with LISnews
>> are not quite back to normal. "They have agreed to let me
>> stay for now," Carver says of his server, "but I'm not sure
>> for how long."
>
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