Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-22 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:48 PM 7/21/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Hello. OK, now I'm a little confused...what exactly is the problem here? It's kinda looking like the library is jerking you around. Large, well funded organizations develop a culture of their own. You've heard you can't fight city hall. I mean, o

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-22 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:48 PM 7/21/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Hello. OK, now I'm a little confused...what exactly is the problem here? It's kinda looking like the library is jerking you around. Large, well funded organizations develop a culture of their own. You've heard you can't fight city hall. I mean,

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Aaron J. Enright
Hello. OK, now I'm a little confused...what exactly is the problem here? It's kinda looking like the library is jerking you around. I mean, on one hand, you say that they already have a CDROM collection. Yet, on the other hand they are claiming that they do not have the ability to deal with th

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Aaron J. Enright
Hello. OK, now I'm a little confused...what exactly is the problem here? It's kinda looking like the library is jerking you around. I mean, on one hand, you say that they already have a CDROM collection. Yet, on the other hand they are claiming that they do not have the ability to deal with th

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Gordon Huff
At 06:51 PM 7/19/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: > I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. I can tell you that anything physically written on the disk (in part why I advocate donating an official set), a

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-21 Thread Gordon Huff
At 06:51 PM 7/19/2003 -0500, Aaron J. Enright wrote: Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: > I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. I can tell you that anything physically written on the disk (in part why I advocate donating an official set),

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-19 Thread Aaron J. Enright
Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: > I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the > following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much. Well, I hope I can clarify. > >>Is there any cataloguing information for the Debian C

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-19 Thread Aaron J. Enright
Howdy. On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Gordon Huff wrote: > I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the > following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much. Well, I hope I can clarify. > >>Is there any cataloguing information for the Debian C

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-19 Thread Gordon Huff
I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much. At 02:26 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, Aaron J.Enright wrote: Hello. I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your questions: >Is there any cat

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-07-19 Thread Gordon Huff
I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much. At 02:26 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, Aaron J.Enright wrote: Hello. I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your questions: >Is there any ca

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-05-27 Thread Aaron J . Enright
Hello. I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your questions: >Is there any cataloguing information for the Debian CD collections >(past or present) available? Yes. The cds themselves have the needed information in (or on) them. What other information is needed can

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-05-27 Thread Aaron J . Enright
Hello. I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your questions: >Is there any cataloguing information for the Debian CD collections >(past or present) available? Yes. The cds themselves have the needed information in (or on) them. What other information is needed can

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-05-23 Thread Matthew Briggs
Hello, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied in this way: > > I was thinking of donating a copy of my Debian CD > > collection to a university library. However I'm > aware > > that libraries usually using cataloguing data to > keep > > track of their materials. > > Personally I believe this

Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries

2003-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Briggs wrote: > Hello, > I was thinking of donating a copy of my Debian CD > collection to a university library. However I'm aware > that libraries usually using cataloguing data to keep > track of their materials. Personally I believe this is a good idea. However, I once heard that a lib