RE: Librarian survey

[Kevin Smith <kevin.l.smith@duke.edu>]

It is worth following the link through to Will Manley's blog and 
getting the story straight, as it were, from the horse's mouth. 
Will Manley is hardly a researcher, and the 18-year-old survey in 
question was conceived as a joke and was, by his own admission, 
completely unscientific.  Also note that he was fired by H.W. 
Wilson from a regular columnist gig; he was never fired by the 
library that employed him full-time and he went on to a very 
successful career, from which he has now retired.  Librarians 
have been treated to Manley's oddball humor for many years, since 
he went from the column in Wilson Library Bulletin to, by the 
time I started reading him, the back page of Library Journal.

Kevin Smith

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[owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Esposito [espositoj@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 5:55 PM
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Subject: Librarian survey

As we recently had some discussion on this list on the use and
meaning of surveys, this article, which is now making the rounds,
on a particular survey of librarians may be of some interest.
The researcher in question claims to have been fired for
conducting the survey, making this not only a question of
methodology but also a free-speech issue.

Here is the link from The Daily News:

http://j.mp/a0tTKK

Joe Esposito