[1231] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Fwd: Chronicle Article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ((Lee Jaffe, Microcomp)
Wed Sep 16 13:21:42 1992
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 12:16:19 CDT
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From: "(Lee Jaffe, Microcomputer & Network Services)" <jaffe%scilibx.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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>........ He who pays the piper calls the tune. Departments and
>individuals who invest their own resources will expect to control what
>they do with it.
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>Bill Arms
>Vice President for Computing Services
>Carnegie Mellon University
I guess that explains what the academic enterprise is all about.
Truth, beauty, compassion, humanity, and paying the piper.
Most cordially,
A. Ralph Papakhian
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I think that Bill Arms rather eloquently tells the truth about something
that librarians would rather not think about: many people see the library
as an impediment. With information technology getting cheaper to buy and
easier to run, anyone who can afford a system is installing their own. No
one in their right might is going to wait for the library to do anything
and they're certainly not going to let us make the decisions about how to
set it up and run it. It isn't a question of truth, beauty or any of those
high ideals, but a matter of the library being seen, realistically or not,
as an information bully for all these years. -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
