Comments on: To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_.html a library weblog by Steve Lawson Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:54:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: K.G. Schneider http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_.html/comment-page-1#comment-74 K.G. Schneider Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:01:06 +0000 http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_is_to_possess_the_cow_of_plenty.html#comment-74 You are too funny! I didn't even remember that letter! Call that my maiden Wikipedia voyage. I'm still a Wikipedia curmudgeon--but the idea that Gorman's "rules" are the prevailing model (I doubt most L2'ers have heard of them) was too absurd not to address. You are too funny! I didn’t even remember that letter!

Call that my maiden Wikipedia voyage. I’m still a Wikipedia curmudgeon–but the idea that Gorman’s “rules” are the prevailing model (I doubt most L2′ers have heard of them) was too absurd not to address.

]]> By: Steve Lawson http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_.html/comment-page-1#comment-73 Steve Lawson Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:42:42 +0000 http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_is_to_possess_the_cow_of_plenty.html#comment-73 Karen, <em>you</em> rule, as usual. I almost updated the post a second time last night to link to <a href="http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/1995-October/070853.html" rel="nofollow">your 1995 letter to the editor</a> of American Libraries on Gorman's laws. Thanks for giving me an excuse to link it here. The "muscular strength and vivid language of Ranganathan's original prose" (as you put it on Wikipedia) is exactly right. "Books are for use." Karen, you rule, as usual. I almost updated the post a second time last night to link to your 1995 letter to the editor of American Libraries on Gorman’s laws. Thanks for giving me an excuse to link it here.

The “muscular strength and vivid language of Ranganathan’s original prose” (as you put it on Wikipedia) is exactly right. “Books are for use.”

]]> By: K.G. Schneider http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_.html/comment-page-1#comment-72 K.G. Schneider Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:05:44 +0000 http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2006/02/to_be_literate_is_to_possess_the_cow_of_plenty.html#comment-72 I modified that Wikipedia entry. In any event, it was inaccurate (surprise, surprise, surprise). I modified that Wikipedia entry. In any event, it was inaccurate (surprise, surprise, surprise).

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