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- Approved-By: "Kara L. Robinson" <KROBINSO@KENTVM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <199212111317.AA63787@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:38:32 EDT
- Sender: Discussion of Library Reference Issues <LIBREF-L@KENTVM.BITNET>
- From: "JENNIFER A. HEISE" <jahb@Lehigh.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Satellite libraries
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Lately, I've encountered a satellite library problem that I'd like to note
- here. If there are any responses, I'll summarize them for the people
- concerned.
- A friend of mine has taken to calling me on a regular basis for information
- from directories/sourcebooks for his graduate work in journalism. When I
- asked him why, he told me that his university had a "satellite" library for
- the journalism program, which was staffed by only one librarian with apparent
- health problems. Often, my friend would find that the library had closed
- without warning. The policy of the university libraries is to put all
- journalism-related material in this library, so that when the journalism
- librarian becomes ill, those materials are inaccessible. My friend describes
- the site as "having books all over the place-- piled on shelves, tables, floor
- etc."
- Remembering that this information is all secondhand, but is apparently the
- information given to a student who inquired (so there may just be a
- communications problem), can anyone offer any constructive suggestions that my
- friend could offer to his department when complaining about the situation?
-
- Jennifer Heise Net: jahb@lehigh.edu
- Reference Dept., Phone: (215) 758-3072
- Fairchild-Martindale Libraries #8A, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
- My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.
-
- "The toad beneath the harrow knows
- Exactly where each tooth-point goes;
- The butterfly upon the road
- Preaches contentment to that toad." Kipling
-