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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
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>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
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>>Subject: CDL-COLUMBIA PROVOST'S LETTER, DISPUTED BOOK
>>
>>From: Paul Metz <[log in to unmask]>
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>>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]
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