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“First, the most shocking was the condescending, rude, and smug tone you took with Mr. Acosta, a director of a national library. I can’t imagine that you would communicate publicly to Dr. James Billington, director of the Library of Congress, with such a contemptuous and snide tone.”

I have read many posts by Eliades Acosta, and it is rare to see him *not* adopting a condescending, rude and smug tone when dealing with people who don’t share his political point of view. My general attitude is to treat others as they treat me. If Mr. Acosta wants to be treated with respect, then he needs to be respectful of others himself. Claiming he deserves special treatment because of his job title is simply elitism.

Secondly, since when has James Billington, the head of our Library of Congress, been treated respectfully by ALA activists on the left?

Second, I consider myself a fairly good Internet searcher, having been initially trained by your predecessor to the Librarians’ Index to the Internet, Carole Leita and, as you know, a long-time contributor to the Librarians’ Index to the Internet. Now I too even give classes on Internet searching. I got curious about Cuba’s infamous missing press release so I decided to look for it myself. I followed your advice and typed in Acosta. I did find some things with his name, but not what I was looking for. I then followed the advice of the comment from Bob Turner who suggested clicking on the “TrackBack”. I did that too. No luck. I typed in press release, Cuban, Cuba, information professionals, and ASCUBI. I went through the “Human Rights in Cuba” section. I looked at everything that mentioned Cuba. I went to the archives. Finally I just gave up. Maybe I am not the researcher whiz I though I was. I am sorry you don’t have much sympathy for me and other librarians with such limited skills, but I would appreciate it if you could give me and any other interested “research challenged” librarians detailed step-by-step instructions for finding the press release submitted by Mr. Eliades Acosta.

Third, you told Mr. Acosta that if you were invited to his library… If I remember correctly in what I just read on your blog, he did invite you twice in two separate letters. Perhaps you should take him up on it, because yes Karen, they do have the Internet. I remember that even four years ago they had it when I used the University of Havana’s computers to demonstrate the Librarians’ Index to the Internet to a group of interested librarians. You just might be amazed at how civilized and current that country really is.