September 19, 2003

The Librarian's World and Welcome to It

By DENNIS DILLON

9 a.m. Professor Jones of the engineering department called. He wanted the library to subscribe to the Journal of Abnormal Train Locomotion. It was, he said, "a critical journal in the field," and it was "a crime that the library doesn't subscribe." He had already talked to the library bibliographer for engineering, and she had said that the library couldn't afford a subscription unless the department could agree to cancel another journal that cost the same $1,800 annually. He was now

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