History of pioneer: Utah's online library

PresentationText of a speech given by the author on October 4, 2001, at the Nevada Library Association Annual Convention

Scraping by on $7 million a year

ManuscriptWhenever we talk about electronic resources, the phrase that comes up is: "We have no money." I am tired of hearing myself say, "We don't have the money." Is this true

Libraries investing in the future first - some practical suggestions

ReportThis essay offers some practical suggestions for implementing transformative strategies for libraries, with a focus on using the materials budget as an investment fund

Egalitarianism

Journal ArticleDespite the popularity of equality as a political value, egalitarianism as a political theory has never, I think, been fully or successfully defended. I aim in this paper to begin the defense of such a view. The egalitarianism I have in mind has as its ideal a condition of equal wellbeing for all persons at the highest possible level of well-being, i.e. maximum equal well-being. Egalitarianism holds that society should be arranged so as to promote and maintain this state. Defending such a view involves, as I see it, three tasks. First, the ideal I have just mentioned must be made clearer and more specific and its implications for the distribution of particular goods such as material possessions and liberty must be revealed. Second, positive arguments must be given in support of an equal distribution of well-being as a requirement of morality and justice

Obligation to obey the law

Journal ArticleIt is often said that we have an obligation to obey the law just because it is the law. This idea has been espoused in the West at least as early as Socrates, and it is espoused today. It is not the special claim of any particular ideology, but has been held by advocates of most political persuasions. In times of crisis it is argued over with passion, and what is at issue is none other than the question of how much obedience and loyalty people owe to their political institutions

Confidentiality and the lawyer-client relationship

Journal ArticleThe Model Rules of Professional Conduct proposed by the American Bar Association differ from the presently enforced Code of Professional Responsibility in a number of ways. This essay focuses on the differences with regard to the scope and limits of confidentiality in the lawyer-client relationship

Saving yourself into the poor house

Journal ArticleSense and Sensibility column: "Saving yourself into the poor house...Perhaps it might be a good thing, especially when thinking about life four or five years down the road, to look more closely at these tempting small "incremental expenditures" for "Big Deals." "Saving yourself into the poorhouse" is what my mother--or perhaps it was my grandmother--used to call it. Just spend a bit more to get lots and lots of good stuff

Physician attitudes toward patients

Journal ArticleAn 8-year-old child with a minor head injury is brought in to the emergency department and is judged by the physician to be completely normal. The parents say that a sibling had a skull fracture under similar circumstances and that they would sleep much better if a skull x-ray were taken. The physician realizes that in cases like this, practically the only significant finding - that is, one that would change care - is relatively rare (namely, a depressed skull fracture)

Acquisitions preconference 3: the summary

Journal ArticleThe Acquisitions for the Eighties Preconference, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and R.T.S.D., was intended to bring together publishers, wholesalers and acquisitions librarians to explore the issues that will affect acquisitions in the coming decade and to consider ways in which the three groups might, both individually and collectively, respond in meeting the changes that may be expected

SNARB - coming soon to a library near you

Journal ArticleAuthor's note: I wanted to write something provocative and a bit funny, thinking about the shrinking differences between libraries and bookstores; and about what happens for good and ill as we are able to search across greater and greater aggregations from disparate parts of our lives. This is how it came out