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Jonathan Cole is the provost of Columbia, not Yale. Could someone
please either post the original letter or FAX a copy to me at
310-825-1303, since, as far as I know, we have not received a copy.
Thanks,
Judy Herschman
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:27:37 EDT "Janine J. Henri"
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> ----------------------------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
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> >>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]
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