North American city halls, county offices and public libraries appear enmeshed in ms where GNU/Linux would be better and more secure. Boston Public Library is one example of resistance to even learning about GNU/Linux where BPL President Bernie Margolis talks a good game but has failed to use the advantage of proximity to our uniquely local resources
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Regarding threading, how do you set up gnus email if you're not an experienced programmer but do have gnus newsgroups running in emacs?...
Most explanations have been too complicated for novices to set up gnus email.
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At Boston Public Library, Carolyn Coulter is a good person
for a discussion about how to improve the set up there...
[ http://www.bpl.org/general/management.htm ]
Carolyn Coulter
Applications Manager
Systems Office
617-859-2233
ccoulter@bpl.org
Frank Altieri
Assistant Systems Officer
Systems Office
617-859-2023
faltieri@bpl.org
James Frazier
Network and Server Manager
Systems Office
617-859-2022
jfrazier@bpl.org
John Pelose
Coordinator Special Services and Locations
Systems Office
617-859-2021
jpelose@bpl.org
Michael Tsigelman
Assistant Supervisor of Computer Services
Systems Office
617-859-2399
mtsigelman@bpl.org
Municipal government documents. Boston Public Lib
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At our Boston Public Library municipal government documents department , curator Gail Fithian fails to acquisition and accession Boston City Hall Departments' documents save the few representative specimens. Even the Boston Public Libraries Department of city government produces documentation that needs to be acquisitioned and accessioned as historic records. It's not entirely the curator's fault. Does City of Boston need a records management program?...
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How to learn about our cities' public libraries backstage, behind the scenes...
Read the annual report and budget documents. Check out the long range plan of your city public library. Ask for department heads' reports and library consultants' studies and reports.
If necessary use your state FOI freedom of information public records and sunshine open meeting principles http://nfoic.org
Our Boston Public Library departments censor their very own documents like curatorial reports and consultants' studies reporting on collections for the purpose of long range development. BPLers have been for the most part adamant in violating the spirit of state FOI freedom of information and sunshine open meeting principles of intellectual freedom. BPL President Bernie Margolis delegated Assistant Director Ruth Kowal to provide accessibility but instead of removing red tape hurtles, additional punishing fees are extorted.
Our cities' public libraries should involve greater public participation in long range planning beginning with ensuring access to whatever legitimately public documentation there is on the very same institution.
Something should be done about the violation of professional conduct by
Boston Public Library President Bernie Margolis and his delegated
officers of our public library including BPL Government Documents
Department Reference Desk Curator Librarian Gail Fithian.
Don Saklad
dsaklad@zurich.ai.mit.edu
Weblog guide to problematical Boston Public Library use
http://zork.net/~dsaklad
Boston Public Library routinely forwards to City Hall Reference Desk
enquiries. The tactic used is the escalating of Reference Desk enquires to
FOI freedom of information disclosure even for undeniably legitimate public
information. The tactic of escalating Reference Desk enquiries so as to
falsely attempt some kind of justification for reporting on public library
users' reading is abhorrent and contrary to intellectual freedom.
Especially as an obvious reprisal and attempt to deflect. BPL has used
relatively more of the energies of personnel to do counterintuitively what
would have been very simple, just make available legitimately public
information or offer alternatives on Reference Desk enquires.
If you can grasp the importance of it rather than playing the game of
circling the wagons, you have a matter here that raises a question that
solves other questions!
Via [ http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?i d=141&page=3 ]
Everyone has been deputized, and everyone is under scrutiny: Even the librarians are watching. Last fall, the United States Government Printing Office ordered the Boston Public Library to destroy a CD-ROM deemed to contain sensitive data. When I visited the BPL to see the shelf where Source Area Characteristics of Large Public Surface-Water Supplies in the Conterminous United States: An Information Resource for Source-Water Assessment, 1999 once resided, the woman at the government documents desk referred me to the library's press officer -- who, after providing the information, apparently alerted the authorities [ http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?i d=141&page=3 ]
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for a discussion about how to improve the set up there...
[ http://www.bpl.org/general/management.htm ]
Carolyn Coulter
Applications Manager
Systems Office
617-859-2233
ccoulter@bpl.org
Frank Altieri
Assistant Systems Officer
Systems Office
617-859-2023
faltieri@bpl.org
James Frazier
Network and Server Manager
Systems Office
617-859-2022
jfrazier@bpl.org
John Pelose
Coordinator Special Services and Locations
Systems Office
617-859-2021
jpelose@bpl.org
Michael Tsigelman
Assistant Supervisor of Computer Services
Systems Office
617-859-2399
mtsigelman@bpl.org
Cynthia Phillips
Technology Implementation and Training Officer
Community Library Services Office
617-859-2377
[ http://www.bpl.org/general/management.htm ]
Weblog guide to problematical library use
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com
At our Boston Public Library municipal government documents department , curator Gail Fithian fails to acquisition and accession Boston City Hall Departments' documents save the few representative specimens. Even the Boston Public Libraries Department of city government produces documentation that needs to be acquisitioned and accessioned as historic records. It's not entirely the curator's fault. Does City of Boston need a records management program?...
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How to learn about our cities' public libraries backstage, behind the scenes...
Read the annual report and budget documents. Check out the long range plan of your city public library. Ask for department heads' reports and library consultants' studies and reports.
If necessary use your state FOI freedom of information public records and sunshine open meeting principles
http://nfoic.org
Visit your city public library board meetings.
Our Boston Public Library departments censor their very own documents like curatorial reports and consultants' studies reporting on collections for the purpose of long range development. BPLers have been for the most part adamant in violating the spirit of state FOI freedom of information and sunshine open meeting principles of intellectual freedom. BPL President Bernie Margolis delegated Assistant Director Ruth Kowal to provide accessibility but instead of removing red tape hurtles, additional punishing fees are extorted.
/ stories
Our cities' public libraries should involve greater public participation in long range planning beginning with ensuring access to whatever legitimately public documentation there is on the very same institution.
See also
Weblog guide to problematical Boston Public Library use
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http://zork.net/~dsaklad
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By James Burnetti d=141&page=3
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Something should be done about the violation of professional conduct by Boston Public Library President Bernie Margolis and his delegated officers of our public library including BPL Government Documents Department Reference Desk Curator Librarian Gail Fithian. Don Saklad dsaklad@zurich.ai.mit.edu Weblog guide to problematical Boston Public Library use http://zork.net/~dsaklad
Boston Public Library routinely forwards to City Hall Reference Desk enquiries. The tactic used is the escalating of Reference Desk enquires to FOI freedom of information disclosure even for undeniably legitimate public information. The tactic of escalating Reference Desk enquiries so as to falsely attempt some kind of justification for reporting on public library users' reading is abhorrent and contrary to intellectual freedom. Especially as an obvious reprisal and attempt to deflect. BPL has used relatively more of the energies of personnel to do counterintuitively what would have been very simple, just make available legitimately public information or offer alternatives on Reference Desk enquires. If you can grasp the importance of it rather than playing the game of circling the wagons, you have a matter here that raises a question that solves other questions!
See also [ http://listserv.muohio.edu/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?S2=archi ves&q=woman&s=&f=&a=13+October+2002&b=17+October+2 002 ]
Viai d=141&page=3 ]
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[ http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?
Everyone has been deputized, and everyone is under scrutiny: Even the
librarians are watching. Last fall, the United States Government
Printing Office ordered the Boston Public Library to destroy a CD-ROM
deemed to contain sensitive data. When I visited the BPL to see the
shelf where Source Area Characteristics of Large Public Surface-Water
Supplies in the Conterminous United States: An Information Resource
for Source-Water Assessment, 1999 once resided, the woman at the
government documents desk referred me to the library's press officer
-- who, after providing the information, apparently alerted the
authorities
[ http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?