ACQNET 7.3: 4TH Comment on Hawaii Contract

[Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>]

Forward from  Patricia D. Wallace,  Chair, Hawaii Working Group
(ALA Social Responsibility Round Table /Alternatives in Print Division)
Denwall@aol.com
The following message has been cross-posted; please excuse any
duplication.

SEE MY EARLIER FORWARD dated 1-9-97 WHICH THE MESSAGES
BELOW RESPOND TO:

>From: Eleanor Cook (Appalachian State U.) <cookei@appstate.edu>
>To: acqnet-l@listserv.appstate.edu (acquisitions/ technical
> services listserv)
>Subject: ACQNET 7:2:Subject: Baker & Taylor's Outsourcing Contract
   with the   Hawaii Public Library System: a Summary
>Date: JAN 6, 1997
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From: ELEANOR COOK <COOKEI@conrad.appstate.edu>
To: acqnet-l@listserv.appstate.edu
Subject: ACQNET 7:3:
Comment on Hawaii Contract with Baker & Taylor
Date: Jan 18, 1997

ACQNET, Vol. 7, No. 3, January 19, 1997 -- ISSN: 1057-5308

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The five responses will be forwarded as a multi-part post.
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POST #4
From: Peter Graham (Rutgers U.)
<psgraham@rci.rutgers.edu>
Subject: ALA and Outsourcing in Hawaii
Date: Jan 16, 1997

     I write to ACQNET as an ALA Councilor responding to the query,
"Where has ALA been in this issue?" I am not a member of your list
(so won't see list postings) but have had forwarded to me the
recent ACQNET 7:2 which fully covers the Hawaiian B&T outsourcing
matter.

     It's clear to me that this is an important issue and it is quite proper
for people to be concerned and to look into it carefully.  Here, however,
I only want to respond to the query raised once or twice in ACQNET,
and directly to the ALA Council listserv, which is roughly "Why isn't ALA
doing anything?"

     It's important to remember that ALA is us, not them.  ALA headquarters
can react only when given knowledge and direction, and I suspect we
want to be sure that our good headquarters staff don't go off half-cocked
but only enunciate clear positions of policy that our membership has
clearly stated.

     On the ALA Council list the immediate questions were: What does the
PLA have to say?  What does the Hawaii state Library  Association have
to say?  What about our representatives on Council and in the Divisions
from the state and from the appropriate library bodies?  There is an
eagerness on Council to know the full story, and very probably to try
to act in a way that will be helpful.

     The first signs of the issue we got, however, were from individuals
who were clearly very concerned but were asking for ALA help when
we didn't have much context.

     Keep the information flowing, make sure your representatives have
good information (in all the relevant units--ALCTS, PLA, Chapter
organizations, Council) -- and you, as ALA, will make ALA "do something."

Peter Graham
Rutgers University Libraries
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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