Yeah, serves the Library Hotel right.
My mother was so disappointed when she called OCLC asking about the new
hotels they were opening, to find out that they didn't have any hotels.
She was confused! She said she would never trust the OCLC brand again,
it has lost so much value in her eyes.
As I speak, I'm taking a blow-torch to the call number spine labels on
all the books in the library (my power-action shushing arm is good for
that as well as shushing), in hopes that the twelve lawyers who have
come to the reference desk today, asking me to make hotel reservations
for their Thanksgiving trip to New York to see the parade, will no
longer think we are affiliated with the hotel. Each time I tell them I
can't make their reservations they say "The service at this hotel is
awful. I'll never trust the Dewey brand again. Maybe it should be
become a Library of Congress Franchise."
That hotel has caused havoc to my professional life, and to my mother's
emotional well-being! I am incensed that they tried to pretend they
were an official OCLC hotel. And this has surely ruined any plans OCLC
might have had to break into the fast food industry.
Kreig Kitts
Research Librarian
Troutman Sanders LLP
600 Peachtree St., NE
Suite 5200
Atlanta, GA 30308-2216
phone 404-885-3794
fax 404-962-6944
kreig.kitts@troutmansanders.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carey, Elisabeth [mailto:CareyE@tht.com]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:35 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power/We have arrived
The Library Hotel, though, didn't acknowledge OCLC as the owner,
ignored OCLC's first few contacts asking them to acknowledge them as the
owner, and were fairly obnoxious about refusing when they did finally
respond.
In acknowledging OCLC's ownership openly, plainly, and without
prior lawyer letters, Tori Amos and her record label are behaving
really, really differently, and are probably going to get a different
response.
Lis Carey
Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
Boston, MA
(617)310-8273
careye@tht.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Saundra Kae Rubel
[mailto:privacylaws@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:45 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power/We have
arrived
Yes and OCLC is suing the Library Hotel in NY for using
the Decey Decimal system in their rooms as each floor is dedicated to
one of 10 Dewey categories :
http://www.libraryhotel.com/vtlh/index2.html
At 08:55 AM 11/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
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"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags">
OCLC is acknowledged as the owner of the DDC
system on the inside cover of the CD.
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