[Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

[Lise Chlebanowski]

Ditto! 

 

Lisë Chlebanowski

Library Manager

Avondale Old Town Library

328 W. Western Ave.

Avondale, AZ   85323

623-333-2611 D

623-333-0260 F

lchlebanowski at avondale.org <mailto:lchlebanowski at avondale.org> 

 

Now Reading: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Now Listening: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Lynne Ingersoll
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:00 PM
To: jschallan at yahoo.com; 'Publib'
Subject: RE: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

 

Joe....

 

Since the Hydrox Wars I have noticed a drastic decline in the number of PubLib postings so I imagine many have come to the same conclusion as you.  For myself alone, I am sorry because I thoroughly enjoyed most of the off-topic posts, and even enjoyed contributing to them.  It is so easy to skip what you don't want to read but now those who can't be bothered to press delete have "won" and there is very little to read OR skip.

 

I'll be adding your blog to my favorites folder and continue to enjoy your humor there.

 

Lynne S. Ingersoll

Lynne S. Ingersoll

Reference Services Manager

Technical Services Manager

Blue Island Public Library

2433 York Street

Blue Island, IL 60406

(708) 388-1078 x21

(708) 388-9301 Fax

 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Schallan
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:46 PM
To: Publib
Subject: [Publib] Topicality, the delete key, and the Hydrox Wars

 

Friends,

 

At the end of June we had a bit of list unpleasantness which I will call "The Hydrox Wars." (Makes a pretty good sounding SF novel title, eh?)

 

I've been thinking quite a bit about the issues raised at that time pertaining to humor, staying on topic, and inviting those who don't care for the humor to press their delete key. An assertion was made that a list subscriber shouldn't be asked to deal with off-topic material at all, since by Publib's own definition of itself, the material doesn't belong there.

 

I have concluded that there is merit in that argument.

 

If Publib were baseball, I suppose I would be the Babe Ruth of off-topicality, and the season leader in leaving good library topics on base and in overall off-topic percentage, as well as in driving clean, simple metaphors right into the ground.

 

Therefore I am moving my whimsical and curmudgeonical act over to my blog, where the six or seven of you who have enjoyed it in the past may now find it:

 

http://juralib.blogspot.com

 

In the meantime, I will continue seeing you all on Publib for strictly on-topic concerns.

 

I will try to freshen up my blog from time to time, but when it is gnawing at my ear, demanding the posting of new material when I'd rather be in the living room watching the Diamondbacks beating the tar out of the Dodgers, I may recycle some of my "classic" (an improbable label, I know) material from Publib including, yes, the three methods for keeping patrons from coming behind the reference desk to filch materials.

 

Cordially,

 

Joe Schallan

Phoenix

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

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