From: Susan Raidy-Klein <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:33:04 -0500

This discussion lacks relevance since no one has bothered to obtain
the facts from the library in question.

Susan Raidy-Klein
Collection Development & Acquisition Librarian
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:14:46 -0600

Yes, but if after close examination, only 2 of those 10,000 titles
really have any merit, would you still say that it was a "good deal"
for the library's patrons?  Providing a lot of rubbish to patrons is
hardly doing them a service. I'm not saying that all 10,000 titles are
rubbish, but the fact is that the Douglas Library cannot assure its
patrons that they are not. Did the librarians actually read all of
those books themselves before ordering them?

Sandy Thatcher