ASSOCIATES (vol. 2, no. 1, July 1995) - associates.ucr.edu
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
From: Thomas Lindsey
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:20:30 CST
Subject: RE: Blake: Dare to be rich
1. If you can't pay a credit bill in full each month, pay
it the same day it arrives or as soon as you have money to write
checks. If you are now paying only the minimum, try to pay the
minimum and the accrued monthly interest of last month. Both of
these actions will reduce your future interest payments so that
more the same amount of money goes to paying off the principal.
2. A daily savings plan that works for me is to put $ 3.00
from my wallet into a jar on my dresser every time that I bathe
or take a shower. (I thought up this idea after remembering a
coin-operated shower connected to a timer at a campground that I
had visited.) It is $3.00 less in my wallet when I am away from
home and near places to buy things. One dollar bills and change
are more likely to be found in my wallet than $ 5 or $ 10 bills,
so I am less likely to skip a day.
I started out with just $ 2.00, and went to $ 3.00 when I found
that I had saved $ 60.00. The money is going into a savings
account at a credit union in the distant city where I once
worked. If I have to write to request a withdrawal, and wait for
a check to come back, I am less likely to take money out of the
account.
3. If you have a part-time job such as direct sales
(cosmetics, shoes, etc.), delivery routes such as newspapers,
weekly magazines, exercise class teaching, cake decorating, or
other jobs which require you to use your own car or truck and pay
other expenses, consider whether or not you are actually making
money with this job. I am giving up a part-time delivery route
job partly because my pay for the time to complete the route is
turning out to be below the minimum wage. I then have to deduct
automobile expenses, self-employment social security taxes and
personal supplies. The allure of self-employment appeals to many
people. But some jobs and businesses master the employee/owner
instead of the other way around. Spending less of what you have
now may be more profitable than trying to make more money with a
second job.
I appreciated the article. Hope that these comments help others.
Sincerely yours,
Tom Lindsey
U Tx at Arlington Libraries
From: J.G.Jackson@exeter.ac.uk
Date: Monday, April 3, 1995
Subj: Associates Journal Article
Hello Brad,
I have just read your latest article in the above journal, and as
before found it very good. It is good to have just articles which
deal with the nitty gritty of the Internet. So often it is
difficult to get started on the Web or Gopher but once in, with
the aid of help screens, one can go as far as you want. You may
have seen my own modest article in a previous edition of
Associates on staff training. What I would like to ask is could
you do a article on FTP through Windows for PC's ?
I don't know about you but I think that this journal is really
great and look forward to the next edition.
Kind Regards
Jim Jackson
Main Library
University of Exeter
England
From: Jill Smith
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:21:02 -0500
Subject: reprinting
I'm a member of a support staff advisory committee at Purdue
University Libraries. I find a lot of the material you publish
interesting, and would like to pass it on. Quite a few of the
support staff here don't have easy access to the electronic form.
What do I need to do to get permission to reprint articles in our
monthly in-house newsletter?
Thank you,
Jill Smith
[Note: For those of you interested in reprinting articles in in-
house newsletters, the following is our policy on copyright:
"Authors assign to Associates the right to publish and distribute
their text electronically and to archive and make it permanently
retrievable electronically, but the author maintains the
copyright." If you wish to download a copy of Associates for
distribution among your colleagues or for addition to your
collection, you have our blessing. However, should you wish to
reprint only selected articles, we suggest you contact the author
for permission. In addition, you will need to note in the
reprint that the article was first published in _ASSOCIATES: The
Electronic Library Support Staff Journal_ with the appropriate
citation. The Editors]
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:59:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "ARNOLD, BETTY"
Subject: Associates
Is ASSOCIATES available by FTP yet? If so please send directions.
Really enjoy it! Thanks for so much effort on our behalf.
Betty Arnold
Penn State
[Note: As a result of Betty Arnold's query, ASSOCIATES is now
available via FTP. Check the ARCHIVES section is this month's
issue for detailed instructions. The following is a further note
from Betty. The Editors.]
Kendall, thanks for that news. Since I last spoke with you I
spoke with our Internet guru and she was able to put ASSOCIATES
on our library gopher. Now all of us here at PENN STATE can read
and print articles from ASSOCIATES or FTP if they want. When I
asked about FTPing it was the only way I could think of to make
ASSOCIATES available to the support staff here in a better form
than E-Mail. Thanks again
From: J.G.Jackson@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Your Associates Article
To: dfourie@edu.calstate.eis
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:27:31 +0100 (BST)
Dear Ms. Fourie,
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your recent article
in the Associates Journal. I am following closely developments
in this direction for my own use and for further staff
development courses.
Here in Britain there are two main alternatives for people
wishing to be qualified as librarians. One is to do Library
School course, with one year pre school library experience
required. A new option soon to come 'online' is a NVQ Library
Qualification. NVQ stands for National Vocational Qualification,
and is carried out in the work place, by completion of a number
of work based course units. You may be aware of this type of
course. This new course is to be released later this year and
holds what I consider great possibilities for the future.
I wish you continued success with your course for the future.
Jim Jackson
Main Library
University of Exeter
England