Michele said:
"I was bemused to see all the references to "Rick", "Mr. Erway" and "him/his" throughout. Maybe the problem is that references to humans in all our communications fail to be accompanied by sufficient metadata to avoid the confusion that results from the presumption that anything interesting, provocative or well written must have come from a man."
To flip this around, you all would be surprised at the number of people I meet face-to-face for the first time who say something like "I thought you were a woman." :-)
Bernie Sloan
--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Michele Newberry <fclmin_at_UFL.EDU> wrote:
From: Michele Newberry <fclmin_at_UFL.EDU>
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] LIBER Quarterly Article on Europeana
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:15 PM
Thank you Mark. I get this list in digest form so, having clicked on the link to the article and seeing that the author was "Ricky Erway" before reading all the succeeding messages, I was bemused to see all the references to "Rick", "Mr. Erway" and "him/his" throughout. Maybe the problem is that references to humans in all our communications fail to be accompanied by sufficient metadata to avoid the confusion that results from the presumption that anything interesting, provocative or well written must have come from a man. ;-)
- Michele (not Michael)
On 1/19/2010 11:00 PM, NGC4LIB automatic digest system wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:15:04 -0500
> From: MARK L DARBY<mldarby_at_TEMPLE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: LIBER Quarterly Article on Europeana
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> Though I suppose, strictly speaking, my intervention is off-topic, I hope
> there might be some consideration of who "Rick Erway" is in light of:
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> http://www.oclc.org/research/people/erway.htm
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