> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Wishnetsky
>
> At 11:02 AM 11/9/2007, [Hank Young] wrote:
> >Hi Susan,
> >
> >At the University of Florida, we have several African and Latin
American
> >journals which are not available online.  I would hardly call them
> >"inferior" or behind the times ...
>
> I'm afraid everyone took me too seriously.  I should have added
> "The views expressed in my message are not necessarily my own"!
> SW
>

It's just too easy to misread, as most of us, alas, have heard library
administrators say very much the same thing in dead flat seriousness.

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that the paper journal is
becoming obsolete, I wouldn't have to come to work anymore.

Me? I think the technology of the codex has been around for nearly 2000
years, and will probably endure for a few more decades.

Naomi
The views expressed by me are usually not those of UF (or of Hank Young,
for that matter)

Naomi Kietzke Young
Principal Serials Cataloger
Cataloging & Metadata Dept.
University of Florida
PO Box 117007
Gainesville, FL 32611-7007
352 273-2734 <-- NOTE NEW PHONE #