RE: [CBQ] Cody wyo

["John Hagen" <sprinthag@yahoo.com>]

Harold,

 

Yes, I have to agree with your response. I am thankful for any information that I can access on the web. That a particular organization would want payment for the ability to down load or otherwise purchase hard copies of such data, including photos, is no problem what so ever. At least I can research and determine if the data is what I looking for. It’s a hell of a lot easier, let alone cheaper, to explore a collection on line as opposed to driving (flying, bussing, riding the train, hitchhiking, etc.) hundreds or thousands of miles. Or even writing letters and then hoping that anything I order, which I would still have to pay for, is really what I’m looking for.

 

I do not know where the idea that just because something is searchable on the web it should be free just because it is from a library or other such organization. If one were to search for, say, a camera to find the one he/she wants, he/she would have no problem ordering and paying for the product. What, do they think that libraries  don’t cost money to operate? If I were to buy the first seventy-five years of Model Railroading Magazine from Kalmbach Publishing I would pay $200.00. It is printed material and photos, just like what a library can provide. So it’s okay to spend money at a for-profit organization but not to a non-profit organization?

 

John Hagen

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harold Huber
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:43 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Cody wyo

 

 

Being a professional librarian your comment saddens me. Library's try to make their collection available and then get bashed, maybe they need to be like the SMU Balwin Collection or the California library that holds most of the Death Valley collection and not allow anyone on line see even what they have.  The California library won't let any one see their collection even if you are present at the site.  Then maybe you will have something to complain about. The Buffalo Bill Research Center is a upgrade library just trying to let people see their collection better so the information can get to the end user.  I worked there helping in archival of material.  To all others I apologize for my tirade, but it is people like this that makes librarians think twice about public acess to their collections.

Harold Huber

Ultimate Research LLC

Sheridan, WY  

-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of John Willis
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:37 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Cody wyo

 

Doug I am not impressed with that site. They make it not worth the
trouble to search other images and forget about saving a reasonable
image to view or use later. I suppose they want folks to ante up a large
amount of money for anything usable. Not going to happen from my wallet
- even if I had a lot of money I wouldn't spend it there.
My 2¢,
John C. Willis
Mobile, Al

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