{"id":2226,"date":"2008-02-06T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=479"},"modified":"2008-02-06T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:35:30","slug":"confessions-of-a-rogue-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/confessions-of-a-rogue-librarian.html","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Rogue Library Book Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekastreet.com.au\/article.aspx?aeid=4848\">Confessions of a Rogue Library Book Buyer<\/a> is an article by a former university administrator.   What he did, with the aid of a complicit librarian, would make an interesting exercise for an Ethics class.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t feel that they approached the situation in the correct manner, I can certainly understand their motives (and appreciate that they focused on improving the collection).   It is amazing how often faculty and departments don&#8217;t realize just what they could do for their library, majors and institutions by paying closer attention to their library allocations.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that most universities &amp; colleges have procedures in place to deal with unused allocations, rather than letting them build up.  Thought experiment : what areas of your library&#8217;s collection would most benefit from a burst of extra purchasing?<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.org\/node\/29056\">LISNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of a Rogue Library Book Buyer is an article by a former university administrator. What he did, with the aid of a complicit librarian, would make an interesting exercise for an Ethics class. While I don&#8217;t feel that they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/confessions-of-a-rogue-librarian.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2917,2921,2929,2943],"tags":[4691,4690],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisitions","category-books","category-ethics","category-libraries","tag-administrator","tag-complicit-librarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}