RE: Elsevier Science appoints Leo Voogt

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> Unless Elsevier is willing to decrease the cost of their journals by 95%
> or more for the more impoverished African countries, such as Uganda and
> Nigeria, I can't see what good any Library Relations Director might do for
> African libraries.

I don't think doing good for African libraries enters into it at all.  
The purpose of a public relations (or, in this case, library relations)
director is to do good for the company.  There's nothing intrinsically
wrong with that, of course -- but no one should think that Mr. Voogt's job
will be to make things better for libraries in Africa.  His job will be to
make libraries in Africa feel better about doing business with Elsevier.

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