I just want you all to know, in an official capacity as a McMaster employee, that I had a tuna sandwich for lunch, and it was delicious. Please note that I don't intend this to influence anyone else's future plans for lunch.

Matt McCollow
Web Developer
Mills Library, McMaster University

On 2011-09-28, at 2:34 PM, Stephen Westman wrote:

> I had been planning on ignoring this tempest in a teapot, but I feel that I
> may have something to say in this matter.
> 
> "how would an applicant feel...".  As it turns out, I am in the process of
> applying for positions.  In fact, I am interested in exploring this
> particular position.  I have been in the library field for some time and
> have read (and respected) Roy Tennant's views and research for years.  Never
> would it even have occurred to me to think of him as a corporate shill for
> OCLC.  It CERTAINLY has not persuaded nor manipulated me one way or the
> other in terms of applying for the job.
> 
> I think that the question Roy asked was a thoroughly appropriate and
> valuable one: asking one person to design an IR from the ground up on their
> own COULD be a pretty daunting task.  His question helped to clarify the
> position description.  I think that it is inaccurate - I would even say,
> utterly inappropriate - to ascribe subversive motives to what was
> essentially a request for more information.  I would agree that emacs vs. vi
> wars are less of a waste of considerable bandwidth than this discussion has
> generated.
> 
> BTW - I am using my personal email rather than that of the institution at
> which I work, lest somebody think that I speak for that institution.
> 
> Stephen Westman
> Somewhere in the Ethernet
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ya'aqov Ziso <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> *As a community, we create and modify our policies as we go along SO THAT
>> we
>> can contribute freely in our discussions with each other.*
>> *
>> *
>> *Anybody, including a senior officer from corporate OCLC can simply state
>> that her/his opinion does not represent her/his employer. **[without such
>> distinction from OCLC's Tennant, how would an applicant feel about the
>> position's description? to whom does s/he report, to BPL or partially also
>> to OCLC?]*
>> *
>> *
>> *This list archives include instances where such distinctions were not
>> drawn, and people expected OCLC to kick in resources and involvements, and
>> that did not happen. The reverse also happened, and personal opinions
>> turned
>> out to be strict OCLC policy.*
>> *
>> *
>> *Ya'aqov*
>>