Letters to the Editors

Date: Mon 6/26/00 7:17 AM
From: Jim Jackson [J.G.Jackson@exeter.ac.uk]

I thought I would let you know that I have had a special addition to our book it web page. Rather than an introduction it is now a introduction and report, with a plea to people to let us know what they did ! Have a look at http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/amnc/bookit.html

There does need to be one change to it, in that I have to have Kendall Simmons name spelt right, but I am working on that !!

Jim.

[Editors' Note: It looks like BookIT was a great success and all your ghard work was worth it. Congratulations!!]

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:49:26 -0600
From: Renee Hijleh <hijlehrd@uwec.edu>

To the editors of Associates:

Originally, I had subscribed to this e-journal hoping to find it somewhat valuable, but I have been disappointed with every issue.

I also thought that the editorial was in extremely poor taste. I have to agree with the editor that she accomplishes the following act: "open mouth, insert foot." I find it highly unprofessional to send vulgarities such as this as part of any professional correspondence. If this is indicative of the mind-set at Associates, then I want no part of it.

Newly UNSUBSCRIBED-

R. Hijleh

[Editors Note: We tried to find out what this former subscriber would have found to be of value but, alas, we never heard back. As always, even if you don't feel you could write something for us, we are always interested in hearing what you'd like to read about, and will do our best to find someone to oblige.]

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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:19:05 -0600
From: "Ferm, Carrie" <alicf@augustana.edu>
Subject: RE: Associates: Column-Kintner

What a waste of time.

Carrie Ferm
Augustana College Library

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Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 16:47:17 -0400
From: Kevin E. Burrell <kevinb+@pitt.edu>
To: associat@raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Associates subscription

I'm going to be ending my current position at the university of Pittsburgh effective 7/1/00. (I'll probably be leaving sometime in June). I'd like to have my subscription canceled ASAP to prevent unnecessary work in the future when my account is closed.

I've enjoyed the e-journal. Good luck for future success.

Thanks.

Kevin

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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000
From: "Petit, Mary A " <petitma@jmu.edu>
Subject: Re: my subscription to The Associates

Please unsubscribe me as an e-mail recipient of The Associates. I would prefer to receive e-mail notification when new issues are posted on the Web, and read them there.

I've enjoyed every issue I've read since I subscribed in 1994. Hope it's okay that we have inserted a hyperlink on our library's Staff Development page, for the benefit of staff who want to read an occasional article, but do not wish to subscribe. Keep up the good work!

Mary Petit
Reference Dept.

[Editors Note: When we wrote back saying "You bet! Mind if we put your letter and kind words in our next issue?" we got yet another compliment…"You really do a wonderful job with this publication!"

Do note that we give everyone permission to link to us.]

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From: AnneMB6777@aol.com
Subject: Re: Associates: Calendar

Speaking of calendars is anyone planning on attending the conference in Charleston, NC, this November?

Ann

[Editors Note: Is anyone going who can contact Ann?]

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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:17:45 -0600

From: Goodman Sue GS-12 AUL <Sue.Goodman@MAXWELL.AF.MIL>

Pardon the questions, but which mailing list is sending me all these articles suddenly or what did I subscribe to in order to about a dozen articles suddenly this afternoon?

Thanks,

Sue Goodman

Air University Library

[Editors' Note: Don't forget that you can always subscribe to the web version notification list if you don't want to get the latest issue sent be email. The instructions are at http://www.ukans.edu/~assoc/interest700.htm

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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:54:33 -0400
From: awards@links2go.com
Subject: Links2Go "Information Libraries" Award

The page titled "Associates Home Page", at http://www.ukans.edu/~assoc/ , was selected as a Links2Go "Key Resource" in the Information Libraries topic, at http://www.links2go.com/topic/Information_Libraries.

o How your page was selected

Each quarter, Links2Go samples millions of web pages to determine which pages are most heavily cited by web pages authors, such as yourself. The most popular pages are downloaded and automatically categorized by topic. At most 50 of the pages related to a topic are selected as "Key Resources." Out of 20 pages selected as Key Resources for the Information Libraries topic, your page ranked fifth. For topics like Music, where there are a large number of interested authors and related pages, it is harder to achieve selection as a Key Resource than for a special-interest topic, such as Quantum Physics.

The Links2Go Key Resource award differs from other awards in two important ways. First, it is objective. Most awards rely on hand selection by one or more "experts," many of whom have only looked at tens or hundreds of thousands of pages in bestowing their awards. Selection for these awards means no more than that one person, somewhere, noticed your page and liked it enough to select it. The Key Resource award, on the other hand, is based on an analysis of millions of web pages. Any group or organization who conducts a similar analysis will arrive at similar conclusions. When Links2Go says your page is a Key Resource, we mean that your page is one of the most relevant pages related to a particular topic on the web today, using an objective statistical measure applied to an extremely large data set.

Second, the Key Resource award is exclusive. We get literally hundreds of people requesting that their page be added to one or more topics per week. All of these requests are denied. The only way to get listed as a Key Resource is to achieve enough popularity for our analysis to select your pages automatically. We do not accept fees, offers of link exchanges, free advertising, or bartered livestock as inducements to add new sites to our lists. Fewer than one page in one thousand will ever be selected as a Key Resource.

[The Editors:This letter goes on, but you get the gist. Our very first award!]

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