[Publib] Re: Federal Agents investigate Interlibrary Loan (Hoax)

[Adelaide Rowe]

I  am only half way through reading my emails due to vacation and holidays, so ohters may have said similar things. However,  I think I was the second person to send this story to Publib. I thought it was probably impossible too, but  I am  still glad  that I sent it. I got it from a reliable listserve, and it indeed was a reported story, although the incident was a hoax. Even Molly Ivins had it in a column before it was debunked. I think it is important that we see what others read about libraries when they go to such sites as the DailyKos or the Democratic Underground.  I thought it was weird though that it would be Mao's book, and exceptionally unlikely that it would be detected through an interlibrary loan.  I couldn't access my email for the mea culpa, but I figured everyone would find out posthaste . PHEW!
 
Adelaide Rowe
Head of Youth Services
Elk Grove Village Public Library
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
arowe at egvpl.org <mailto:arowe at egvpl.org> 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Lesley K
Sent: Thu 12/29/2005 10:20 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Re: Federal Agents investigate Interlibrary Loan (Hoax)




>Re: Federal Agents investigate Interlibrary Loan  (Hoax)

The most comforting thing I can find about this very sad story is the many
comments I have read on various blogs that basically say, "I knew that this
couldn't be true, because librarians would NEVER release that kind of
information to the FBI."



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Lesley Knieriem                         lesleyk at rpl.lib.ar.us
Reader's Advisory Librarian       479 - 621 - 1152
Rogers Public Library           Rogers, AR 72758
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