Re: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Partisan politics does not belong on a professional listserve. Some of us our red, and some of us are blue (and some are kachol and lavan, but that's besides the point). Aaron Wolfe Kuperman LC Social Sciences Cataloging Division, Law Team This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. Posted from home, not on company time or with a government server. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Maybe there is an object lesson here for us as librarians. I would encourage a healthy dose of skepticism to any friend of a friend messages. I try to make a point of fact- checking these sorts of items, especially when it is something I agree with. I believe in the old saw, when it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Many times, you quickly discover that the real person who is supposed to be the source of this information doesn't exist. You notice that the name is spelled wrong, that the organization they are supposed to belong to and the venue where the event took place don't exist. It's worth double checking. I often start with the rumor-checking site, snopes.com. In this case I couldn't find anything mentioning this particular email. Searching Google, I did find one blog site that noticed several different versions of Kilkenny email in circulation, suggesting that it may have been a planted item but in play by someone else. On the other hand, I found an article in the NYTimes about Palin's record as mayor and governor which mentions Anne Kilkenny as a source and describes some of the events quoted in this email. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?hp While a bit calmer than the email message, it still paints a devastating picture of what kind of person, politician and administrator Sarah Palin really is. And this from the NYT, not a friend of a friend. -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
but all of us are librarians... Dr. Yaffa Weisman Library Director Frances-Henry Library Los Angeles, CA www.huc.edu/libraries/la Phone: 213-765-2170 Fax: 213-749-1937 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Many of us are civil servants, who aren't supposed to be involved in partisan politics on company time. Unless you have a patronage job gained through connections rather than merit, a civil servant is required to be willing to work whether the boss is red meat Republican or a bi-coastal Democrat, and all points in between, or even further extreme. Many Judaica librarians work for institutions who have specific stands on issues and won't be thrilled if a staff member takes an opposing position (do you really believe that an Orthodox institution won't be annoyed if someone identifying themselves as an employee, with an institution email, comes out for gay marriage and abortion, or if an institution affiliated with the Reform movement won't object if someone uses their email address to attack a candidate for being supportive of infanticide and sexual perversions. Judaica librarians are probably the less willing to support an absolutist policy on intellectual freedom, since many of the books people want to ban are vilely anti-Semitic. So if a newly elected mayor asks the village librarian of a library that is 100% owned and paid for by the village about acquisition policy, is that a political issue we should be discussing on a Judaica listserve (I am reasonably certain the books she objected to did not deal with Jewish conspiracies to rule the world, holocaust denial, etc.).??? Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
It's not clear from this post whether Yaffa received this email personally from the writer and actually knows the writer (Anne Kilkenny) or whether it is something being passed around the internet without a known provenance, or something she received second or third hand. Andrea Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Why is this being posted on this list?? Stuart Schnee Public Relations, Marketing Sales US Tel: 973-796-2753 Israel Tel: +972-54-790-9120 Fax: +972-2-561-0943 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Dear Friends, Thank you for all the feedback, private and public, for and against, regarding my latest post. My posting goes to the issue of politicians banning books, questioning the judgement of professional librarians, and to librarians' responsibility to allow uncensored access to collections they manage- something I believe we should all be concerned about. And since this particular politician has a chance of being a heartbeat away from the Presidency - I believe this is the kind of information librarians should have. Dr. Yaffa Weisman Library Director The Frances-Henry Library Hebrew Union College-JIR 3077 University Ave. Los Angeles, California 90007 www.huc.edu/libraries/la 213.7652170 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
