----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I think Paul Metz is confused; "The Way of the Carpenter" is the book Kenneth Frampton is supposed to have misused (though he does cite it) in his Japanese Building Practice title. Janine Henri >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >This just appeared on the Collection Development Listserv, about another >book by Frampton. > >Amy > >Amy Navratil Ciccone >University of Southern California > > >>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:41:26 -0700 >>Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >>Sender: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: CDL-COLUMBIA PROVOST'S LETTER, DISPUTED BOOK >> >>From: Paul Metz <[log in to unmask]> >> >>I hesitate to raise this question because it's the kind of thing that leads >>to listserv nausea before it's all played out, but how many of your >>directors have, like mine, received a letter from Jonathan Cole, Provost >>and Dean of Faculties of Yale University, saying that _The Way of the >>Carpenter_, written by Yale's noted architectural historian Kenneth >>Frampton and published by Van Nostrand on behalf of Yale's Graduate School >>of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, turned out to have wholesale >>unattributed quotations from another book, and requesting that libraries >>remove it from their collections? >>I'm fully expecting to see this get play in the Chronicle before it's all >>over. Or maybe I've already missed it. >>Our inclination is not to remove the book, but to put a local note in the >>catalog record quoting Cole's letter. This is not an issue of removing >>something because it's wrong (which we wouldn't do). Nor do we see any >>other valid reason to remove the book. But we think Columbia has a >>legitimate right to disclaim the authorship implicit in their corporate >>role in the book's creation. >>Okay, now I'll foolheartedly ask what others think, and duck. >> >>Paul Metz, Director, Collection Management and College-Based Services >>Virginia Tech University Libraries >>P.O. Box 90001 / Blacksburg VA / 24062-9001 >>Ph: (540) 231-5663 FAX: (540) 231-3694 e-mail: [log in to unmask] > >__________________________________________________________________ >Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] >Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] >ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html >Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask] Head Librarian The Architecture and Planning Library The General Libraries, P.O. Box P The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78713-8916 (512) 495-4623 [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]