-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Serials List database  Clarification/correction -- Dan
Lester
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:39:49 -0500
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>
Reply-To: dgoodman@princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University

Whether or not the library should have a printed list should be decided
by the needs and opinions of the users, not the management. The job of
the library staff and management combined is to meet their needs if
possible. "If possible," does not mean  "if convenient,"  and certainly
not "if they agree with us."

I know my users need it because if they can't locate it they ask for it
(and, yes, I've done surveys as well). It would be much easier not to
prepare it, and if they didn't use it I would stop at once. I see the
same need and use in many other science libraries; I know of one very
technological library that acts ashamed of producing it and hides it in
a back corner--but the users find it. I do admit I've never been at
Boise. I wonder if their computer system ever fails.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Serials List database  Clarification/correction
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:11:19 -0700
> From: Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com>
>
>...
> Whether or not the printed list will be resurrected in some format, or
> whether that product will die, has yet to be determined by library
> management.  I'm sure that discussion will be taking place over the
> next few months.
> ...
> Happy holidays,
> dan

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David Goodman
Biology Librarian
and Digital Resources Researcher
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08544-0001
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