ACRL College & Research Libraries News

Association of College & Research Libraries

Letter to the editor

—Christopher H. Walker, Indiana University, e-mail: chwalk.er@indiana.edu

Orchids to C&RL News for publishing Scott R. DiMarco’s piece “I know that’s what it said, but it’s not what we want” (June 2000), and orchids to Scott for mentioning my particular pet peeve as tip #1. A perfectly appalling percentage of ads in our profession don’t give any hint about the salary range proposed. It’s very frustrating for job-hunters, and it probably prevents some good matches from finding each other without waste of time.

Onions to the copy editor who passed “Awareness of current academic trends that effect library operations” (p. 504). That should be “affect.” “Effect” for completive, “affect” for incremental. Usages are slipping all around us, but let’s hold the line on that one for a bit longer, if we can.

Great piece, though. I hope HR officers read it, and mend their ways.