Comments on: noted without comment: VPL sponsorship guidelines during the Olympics

By: Jon Hoch

Jon Hoch — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:02:24 +0000

Hey,

I’m starting a new Libertarian Socialist blog called Rosa’s Ghost. I
was hoping you might add it to your links page. It would be a great
help. Thanks in advance.

http://rosasghost.wordpress.com/

By: Iain Stuart

Iain Stuart — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:31:17 +0000

Unfortunately this is typical of how “Big Sport” operates, we saw it in Sydney for the Olympics and are promised more of the sort if Australia is “lucky” enough to win its bid for the soccer world cup.

I bet next year they will cut funding to the libraries because of cost overruns incurred in running games. And whoever saw an athlete promoting reading!

Iain

By: Olympic sponsorships & Vancouver Public Library: COI? « Social Justice Librarian

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:38 +0000

[...] the biblioblogosphere, Jessamyn noted it “without comment”, Rory thinks it’s “just too much,” noting that VPL was the site of history’s [...]

By: Not my real name

Not my real name — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:29:21 +0000

As a former VPL staff member, this does not surprise me in the least. Attitude like this is why I left that organization.

By: tara

tara — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:13:57 +0000

There’s part of the email that was sent to VPL staff and a link to the entire silly memo from this post: http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/vpl-olympic-sponsors/

By: Martyn Lowe

Martyn Lowe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:05:28 +0000

It’s just a shame that Dave Morris is not living in the area, or else that would soon be stopped.
Given just what Dave done with McLibel,
it would also be difficult for any library to get away with this in London.
What ever else it you can not attempt to claim that library infrmation is neutral with any kind of outside spnsorship going on.
It also raises some interesting issues upon conscientious objection at work.

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:11:07 +0000

I have seen ridiculous stuff in my time, but this one has to take the cake. What I love is how suddenly everyone is denying accountability: the library boss who created the guidelines denies she was directed to do so by the Olympics cttee. The city denies telling the library to make the guidelines, and the Olympics folks are conveniently quiet. Someone had to come up with the idea. Anyhow, what are they going to do if you already had an event in place sponsored by DQ, for instance? Cancel it and tell DQ to bug off? On the other hand, part of why this may not surprise me is that campus operates in a similar way: we have certain vendors so on we have to go through for certain things (even if the service in some cases is subpar or more expensive).

Best, and keep on blogging.