15 Apr
2011
15 Apr
'11
12:58 p.m.
--- On Fri, 4/15/11, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
You are/were better off than some.
I'm faculty, currently assigned as a librarian (after they
discontinued
all of the good CS classes). One of our
administrators (synonym for
"needs to be defenestrated") decided that nobody should
work on English
assignments on the library computers, so they REMOVED
Microsoft Office
from them.
OK, then it's a clear rule. "Thou shalt not be productive in the library -
computers are for mindless web-surfing only". Put up a sign, there - it's your
library, you can make any rule you want. "Don't read the books" could be
another one.
But no signs, no warnings, just an open invitation and resources to do schoolwork - it was
clearly a trap to get me in trouble.
And all these years later, I still don't understand why research and schoolwork are
not allowed in the library.
"No fighting in the war room!"
-Ian