Libbers - I just received an e-mail from a colleague who rightfully called me on including first names in the M-H summary when I stated in my request that I would not identify.
I can only say that when I prepared the summary, for some reason (haste?) first names seemed OK to me - I just wasn't thinking...or worse, I was thinking of too many things at once and not fully concentrating on the impact of what I was preparing.
One of the reasons this list works so well is the trust we place in each other to guard our confidences and identities when we say we will. The colleague who called me on my summary stated that they would not have responded had they known that I would include any form of identification because "we are a very small world and since the companies monitor law-lib, they (and many of us!) can easily figure out who at least some of the respondents were."
I truly hope that nothing negative or adverse comes of my including first names in the summary. I promise that in the future, when I say "no identification" there will be NO identification of any sort.
Please accept my apology.
Elaine B. Dockens
Director of Library Services
Tressler Soderstrom Maloney & Priess, LLP
Sears Tower 22nd Flr; 233 S. Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60606-6399
312-627-4189 [FAX 312-627-1717]
edockens@tsmp.com
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