[Lowfer] WM too bright!

[Ed Phillips]

John Davis wrote:
> 
> > A few years back, in preparation for a move, our company library threw
> >out all old stuff (by their definition pre-1990) as being obsolete and
> >useless!  Lost all RCA Reviews, IRE Proceedings, BSTJ's,etc. Library
> >had complete issues to the beginning and just plain trashed them - threw
> >them into dumpsters and they were gone before anyone knew about it.
> 
> Owww!  No doubt a decision made by someone who thinks anything that happened
> before they were born can't be worth knowing about.

	Situation is actually worse than that.  After moving the library threw
out ALL bound volumes of periodicals including all professional society
(IEEE, AIA, ASME, etc. etc.) publications.  They had had an excellent
collection of these and several good librarians including research
librarians.  All gone now but for one overworked gal and a handful of
books on the stacks.  She can order books and borrow them from other
libraries, but it's incredibly slower than just walking up to the stacks
and pulling stuff.

	I should mention that the company is Northrop Grumman (builders of the
B-2, F/A-18, Global Hawk, etc.) at El Segundo, as they deserve all the
bad publicity which can be generated on this one.  Management has its
head up and locked and has the idea that one doesn't need a library
because "you can look it up on the Internet".  Sometimes true, usually
not but these titheads can't tell the difference.  Harsh words to
follow......

Ed