Comments on: Update on Threat to Postal Rates http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Sun, 20 May 2012 03:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: State of Emergency » IV. The long slow boiling of the frog http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-39581 State of Emergency » IV. The long slow boiling of the frog Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:09:51 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/#comment-39581 [...] the Disney copyright ruling of 2003, the launch of the Google Library Project in 2004, and in 2007, the Time-Warnerized ruling on postal rates, favoring huge publishers over the rank and file. [...] [...] the Disney copyright ruling of 2003, the launch of the Google Library Project in 2004, and in 2007, the Time-Warnerized ruling on postal rates, favoring huge publishers over the rank and file. [...]

]]> By: kgs http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-5992 kgs Wed, 30 May 2007 17:52:57 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/#comment-5992 Thanks, Dorothea! Thanks, Dorothea!

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-5988 Dorothea Salo Wed, 30 May 2007 17:24:21 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/#comment-5988 Progressive Secretary just <a href="http://www.progsec.org/DynMenu/DynMenu.php?Table=lettercontrol&Page=PostalRateHike1_____" rel="nofollow">hopped on this bandwagon</a>. Easy way to get appropriate emails sent on this issue, even for those who don't belong to ProgSec. Progressive Secretary just hopped on this bandwagon. Easy way to get appropriate emails sent on this issue, even for those who don’t belong to ProgSec.

]]> By: kgs http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-5980 kgs Wed, 30 May 2007 15:02:28 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/#comment-5980 Jonathan, thank you for that information about the impact of the proposed rates on the media mail rate (which someone else has pointed out will also affect interlibrary loan). That rate is no give-away to begin with, and a 33% hike is steep. I have heard from one ALA honcho so far and will raise this when I hear back from those that I contacted. Jonathan, thank you for that information about the impact of the proposed rates on the media mail rate (which someone else has pointed out will also affect interlibrary loan). That rate is no give-away to begin with, and a 33% hike is steep. I have heard from one ALA honcho so far and will raise this when I hear back from those that I contacted.

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkind http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-5970 Jonathan Rochkind Wed, 30 May 2007 14:09:58 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/05/29/update-on-threat-to-postal-rates/#comment-5970 Apparently different, but related, is <a href="http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3676356" rel="nofollow">media mail rate increases of up to 33% or more for small packages</a>, which imperil <a href="http://www.booksthroughbars.org/pbp/" rel="nofollow">Prison Book Program organizations</a>. A (regrettably) fairly small sector, but an important one whose participants generally exist on a shoestring, and one that has I have a <a href="http://www.bookstoprisoners.net/" rel="nofollow">personal connection</a> to. Sending free books to people in prison is a mission clearly in line with and likely to be of interest to librarians. Apparently different, but related, is media mail rate increases of up to 33% or more for small packages, which imperil Prison Book Program organizations. A (regrettably) fairly small sector, but an important one whose participants generally exist on a shoestring, and one that has I have a personal connection to.

Sending free books to people in prison is a mission clearly in line with and likely to be of interest to librarians.

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