Comments on: Gormangate Schadenfreude http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Conductor http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2029 Conductor Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:55:29 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2029 Since you missed the speech, I thought you might like to know that I posted Codrescu's prepared remarks at cubanamericanpundits.com. He was kind enough to send them to me. Since you missed the speech, I thought you might like to know that I posted Codrescu’s prepared remarks at cubanamericanpundits.com. He was kind enough to send them to me.

]]> By: Stephen http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2028 Stephen Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:31:43 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2028 Yes, I clicked on the Amazon link you posted to the council list. Looks quite interesting. Many years ago I had a political science teacher from Romania, he and his wife were also active in the local chapter of Amnesty International. By the way, I felt Jim Casey's attack on Codrescu (as posted to the council list) was unfair. Yes, I clicked on the Amazon link you posted to the council list. Looks quite interesting. Many years ago I had a political science teacher from Romania, he and his wife were also active in the local chapter of Amnesty International.

By the way, I felt Jim Casey’s attack on Codrescu (as posted to the council list) was unfair.

]]> By: kgs http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2027 kgs Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:15:11 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2027 Thinking ahead is not Gorman's long suit anyway. It doesn't take much to search Amazon and see that Codrescu, an exiled Romanian, recently <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312274718" rel="nofollow">wrote a book critical of the Cuban government</a>. Hello, homework police? Gorman probably told him to talk about intellectual freedom... and ended up with someone who found an audience for an issue he hasn't been shy about sharing in the past. As for Council being out of step, I agree with you, with the caveat that the Kents et al. make it almost impossible to get in step. Thinking ahead is not Gorman’s long suit anyway. It doesn’t take much to search Amazon and see that Codrescu, an exiled Romanian, recently wrote a book critical of the Cuban government. Hello, homework police? Gorman probably told him to talk about intellectual freedom… and ended up with someone who found an audience for an issue he hasn’t been shy about sharing in the past. As for Council being out of step, I agree with you, with the caveat that the Kents et al. make it almost impossible to get in step.

]]> By: Stephen http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2026 Stephen Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:58:37 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2026 If Codrescu had informed Gorman in advance that he would discuss Cuba, I wonder what might have happened. Would they have disinvited him, told him he could not discuss that, or perhaps Gorman would have come fully prepared to debate him on the subject? Actually Gorman has said very little up to now on this issue. But for all the criticism of Robert Kent et al., it seems to me the ones who are really out to left field are the pro-Castro ideologues, emanating primarily from the SRRT, whose views on Cuba have become so influential within the ALA as to paralyze it from taking any meaningful action. I am glad Andre Codrescu was able to address this issue at the ALA conference. If Codrescu had informed Gorman in advance that he would discuss Cuba, I wonder what might have happened. Would they have disinvited him, told him he could not discuss that, or perhaps Gorman would have come fully prepared to debate him on the subject? Actually Gorman has said very little up to now on this issue. But for all the criticism of Robert Kent et al., it seems to me the ones who are really out to left field are the pro-Castro ideologues, emanating primarily from the SRRT, whose views on Cuba have become so influential within the ALA as to paralyze it from taking any meaningful action. I am glad Andre Codrescu was able to address this issue at the ALA conference.

]]> By: kgs http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2025 kgs Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:20:45 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2025 The hard part for me is how Robert Kent et al. have made it extremely difficult to advocate on this issue without getting sucked into a vortex of nonsense. But the reality is that we will go to bat for many oppressed information professionals as long as they aren't Cuban. As for Gorman on librarians-who-haven't-taken-cataloging, geeze, I took a cataloging class and I would have been better off with another class in management or reference. The hard part for me is how Robert Kent et al. have made it extremely difficult to advocate on this issue without getting sucked into a vortex of nonsense. But the reality is that we will go to bat for many oppressed information professionals as long as they aren’t Cuban.

As for Gorman on librarians-who-haven’t-taken-cataloging, geeze, I took a cataloging class and I would have been better off with another class in management or reference.

]]> By: lukethelibrarian http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/comment-page-1/#comment-2024 lukethelibrarian Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:01:47 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/01/27/gormangate-schadenfreude/#comment-2024 I'm sorry you didn't get to experience it firsthand; I was looking forward to hearing your reaction. We were assured at the beginning of the event that the transcript would be made available on the ALA President's website within a few weeks (but after what happened, I'm not holding my breath for that now) and it was being recorded for future broadcast on C-SPAN's BookTV. So hopefully you'll still get the chance to respond directly. I've posted my own reactions over at the LBR blog, <a href="http://lbr.library-blogs.net/international_socalled_librarians_association.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://lbr.library-blogs.net/followup_on_cuba_and_the_ala.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I’m sorry you didn’t get to experience it firsthand; I was looking forward to hearing your reaction. We were assured at the beginning of the event that the transcript would be made available on the ALA President’s website within a few weeks (but after what happened, I’m not holding my breath for that now) and it was being recorded for future broadcast on C-SPAN’s BookTV. So hopefully you’ll still get the chance to respond directly. I’ve posted my own reactions over at the LBR blog, here and here.

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