tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post6220542035137429118..comments2024-03-28T20:02:35.777-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: The Greedy GhostOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-67013362181488387562011-02-27T15:23:49.029-05:002011-02-27T15:23:49.029-05:00Thanks all.
Beth, you hit the nail square on the ...Thanks all.<br /><br />Beth, you hit the nail square on the head: there are people out there, a growing number, who don't see the value in things that don't make money. The great things about libraries are that they are there, for when we need them. I think those of us that do use and value them need to get off our backsides and do what we can to save them.<br /><br />Jeff, I share your sentiments and your fears. Libraries and those little cards give people power. <br /><br />Tim, publishers do face a sea change. The question is whether someone with vision and passion can come along and make it work, and if they do, whether they will be given time to make it work or will the greedy ghost and all the careerist bottom liners take fright. Or do we just muddle, muddle, muddle along, and end up with ideas like HC's one to cap loands of ebooks?Dan Waddellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04320741202757960766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-27300780037560787402011-02-26T16:24:23.144-05:002011-02-26T16:24:23.144-05:00In the February 25 edition of the Library Journal ...In the February 25 edition of the Library Journal there is an article written by Josh Hadro -<br /><br />In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.<br /><br />This is the very long link (which I hope works because I'm still learning).<br /><br />http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp<br /><br />Jeff, where is another Andrew Carnegie who can get the importance of libraries across to all those who don't use them and see them as another waste of the public's money?<br /><br />BethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-69917610179382627082011-02-26T12:27:24.669-05:002011-02-26T12:27:24.669-05:00Hi, Dan, and thanks. Pullman is dead center. But...Hi, Dan, and thanks. Pullman is dead center. But publishing is also facing a sea change that will probably leave the landscape unrecognizable. We live in very interesting times.Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-88063791734521970352011-02-26T10:24:11.927-05:002011-02-26T10:24:11.927-05:00Hi Dan,
When I reached the end of your post I cau...Hi Dan,<br /><br />When I reached the end of your post I caught a glimpse of the title for Stan's piece, "My Heart Breaks." It perfectly summed up my reaction to yours and Pullman's thoughts.<br /><br />I still remember the day my parents allowed me the solo adventure of heading off to obtain my first library card. Had to take two streetcars and walk a few blocks to get there through a neighborhood a bit tougher than even the one I grew up in. But they let me to do it on my own. It was a big day in many ways. <br /><br />Libraries are the great equalizer and soul of a community, dealing more directly with the problems of the under served than virtually any other arm of government. They are where children find safety from the streets and the unemployed access to new skills and information. <br /><br />When Andrew Carnegie made his fortune and built all those libraries around the United States, emblazoned with the motto above the entrances “Free to All,” “Free” was a relative term, because he never endowed them. Thereby making every library a fund raising entity. For example, in Carnegie's home town (and mine) of Pittsburgh, in 1898 the City council resolved to contribute $40,000 annually to run the libraries he'd built. I don’t know for sure, but it sounds like it could have been a generous amount. <br /><br />More than 100 years later do you care to guess how much the City was contributing each year to the system? Yep, $40,000. It was only when the $68 million in annual private fund raising was not enough, and some local libraries were threatened with closure, did people yell loud enough to get the funding increased…but only temporarily and that was before the Great Recession. <br /><br />Yes, libraries matters, and what's happening to them breaks my heart.<br /><br />JeffJeffrey Sigerhttp://www.jeffreysiger.comnoreply@blogger.com