FYI:
One of our colleagues received this note of explanation (apology?) regarding
the UCLA student's article. If you'd like to e-mail he author his/her
address is sbarari@ucla.edu <mailto:sbarari@ucla.edu> . While I still find
that the piece lacks the humor(?) it was intended to convey, I can recall my
days as an undergraduate, and I'm glad that the college paper I wrote for
was not disseminated electronically to the whole world. My definitions of
humor and satire have changed a bit.
Jeff
I just wanted to take a moment to go ahead and apologize if my article has
offended you. It was written solely with the intention of providing a piece
of comic material to UCLA students. The intention, however obscured that it
may have been, was certainly not to belittle the library profession, but
rather to poke fun at the misguided misconceptions people have about many
things that they do not completely understand. This has been a recurring
theme in a series of Daily Bruin articles over the past couple weeks. I'll
be the first to admit that my article is grossly cursory in nature in
regards to library science. I actually did take the time to research the
profession, and understand that it is indeed a valuable institution to our
society. It'd be idiotic of me or anyone else to think otherwise, and I hope
that this common sense overshadows the propagation of any contrary opinion.
Sometimes exaggeration is the key to comedy (I've never been close to a D-),
and the "uninformed" opinion that you may find so offensive is actually an
indictment of the propensity for our society to form opinions based on soley
superficial foundations. Thank you for taking the time to write to me, and
once again I apologize.
Sony Barari
-----Original Message-----
From: Evelyn M. Poole-Kober [mailto:epv@hpcc.epa.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:32 AM
To: iamslic@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [IAMSLIC:1583] Fwd: Re: Inflammatory -- that's putting it MILDLY
It is obvious why this student has a D minus in some subject; he has set
foot in a library since kindergarten.
We should flood the student papers with replies.
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:00:18 -0500
From: Elizabeth Cooksey <liz@skio.peachnet.edu>
Subject: [IAMSLIC:1582] Re: Inflammatory -- that's putting it MILDLY
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Good Gracious! I must say, though, that I've worked with some young
scientists* who do think they are God's gift to the universe, and this
sounds like one of them.
Back when I was in Library School, UCLA required you have two years of
Fortran under your belt before you even applied to get into the library
science program.
Liz
*The great majority of young scientists with whom I've worked have been joys
to interact with, I hasten to add.
Liz DeHart wrote:
This was forwarded by our Chemistry librarian in Austin. I, too, have never
read anything like this in my years of library work. ------ Liz
Forwarded message:
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:11:21 -0600
To:
From: David Flaxbart <flaxbart@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Inflammatory anti-librarian article
All: If you want to see something depressing, take a look at this student
diatribe from the UCLA newspaper. I've never seen anything like this in
all my years doing this.
David
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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:54:55 -0500
Sender: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST
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From: "Phillip M. Edwards" <pmemsi@UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Inflammatory anti-librarian article
You all might have seen this already via other lists, but I think it's
particularly relevant to members of CHMINF-L...It's depressing to see this
sort of unresearched drivel spewing from a scientist's pen:
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/printer.asp?ID=18860
<http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/printer.asp?ID=18860>
I'd blame it on youthful exuberance if I weren't most likely the same age
as the author.
Phil
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