[Publib] HAPLR and the LJ Index

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I was amused by Library Journal's editorial, "Better Than Hennen."   
Regardless of the content or quality of the new LJ ratings, the piece seems a  
shameful bleat born of insecurity and completely unworthy of that fine  journal.  
 
Better than Hennen?  Not better--different.  And to be  sure, much belated.  
LJ certainly must have weighed its options with  extreme care to have sat on 
their data for all these years before coming out  with another standard.  More 
honest to say that they did nothing in that  line for ages, and now, when 
their own machinery is presented, they try a  smackdown move on the fellow whose 
work shamed them into activity.  
 
Hennen is not much beloved in the library world.  That's because he  presumed 
to put values on that old gray harridan, Miss Public Library, herself  much 
beloved by her custodians, whether they did anything for her or not.   And 
often enough it has been "not."  It is neither excuse nor consolation  that some 
try and fail.  I am not much comforted to see California's  libraries down at 
the bottom--I suppose I could become offended and spit on  Hennen's 
computations.  Sure, that would help plenty.  Maybe I could  formulate my own, including 
days of fine weather, and thus have Los Angeles come  out ahead of Columbus?
 
To Library Journal:  Good luck and thanks for your new system.   To Mr. 
Hennen:  thanks for all your hard work, and may the Almighty reward  you for your 
persistence.  
 
Michael McGrorty
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