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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* >>