From: Paul Metz <pmetz_at_vt.edu>
I hesitate to raise this question because it's the kind of thing that leads
to listserv nausea before it's all played out, but how many of your
directors have, like mine, received a letter from Jonathan Cole, Provost
and Dean of Faculties of Yale University, saying that _The Way of the
Carpenter_, written by Yale's noted architectural historian Kenneth
Frampton and published by Van Nostrand on behalf of Yale's Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, turned out to have wholesale
unattributed quotations from another book, and requesting that libraries
remove it from their collections?
I'm fully expecting to see this get play in the Chronicle before it's all
over. Or maybe I've already missed it.
Our inclination is not to remove the book, but to put a local note in the
catalog record quoting Cole's letter. This is not an issue of removing
something because it's wrong (which we wouldn't do). Nor do we see any
other valid reason to remove the book. But we think Columbia has a
legitimate right to disclaim the authorship implicit in their corporate
role in the book's creation.
Okay, now I'll foolheartedly ask what others think, and duck.
Paul Metz, Director, Collection Management and College-Based Services
Virginia Tech University Libraries
P.O. Box 90001 / Blacksburg VA / 24062-9001
Ph: (540) 231-5663 FAX: (540) 231-3694 e-mail: pmetz_at_vt.edu
Lynn Sipe lsipe_at_usc.edu
Director, Collection Resources & 213/740-2929
Director, Information Delivery Organization & Retrieval 213/821-1617 (fax)
University Libraries
Information Services Division
c/o IDOR, UVI-A
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 10:41:30 EDT