Re: Old-Fashioned Definition of "Wrong" (was Mr. Smiley's lawyer)

[David Klappholz <d.klappholz@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

At 10:18 AM 9/19/2006, you wrote:
> When I go to Filene's Basement

Isn't Filene's going the way of Marshall Field's?

> and want to try on a few pairs of pants, there is a store employee 
> who counts what goes into the try-on room, gives me a card bearing 
> that number, and then counts again what is brought out.

I wonder if this will persist.

> Too intrusive? I don't think so.
>
> And how is it possible not to be critical of security at a level of 
> monitoring which allows pages to be razored from a book, presumably 
> in plain view, and if the researcher is not in plain view, why not?

It surprises me that libraries at such well endowed universities as 
Harvard and Yale don't have banks of TV cameras that cover all 
rare-material reading rooms, with monitors monitored, say, by work 
study students; doesn't sound all that invasive given the type of 
material to which the library is giving access to the reader.

Dave


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