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Connecticut History Illustrated JUNE 2005 CONNECTICUT theAPublication ConnectICut of ' RAR-- I- ES Library L- I B - Association ALA Legislative Days In Washington by Chris Bradley embers of Connecticut's delega­ tion to the ALA/Washington Office's annual Legislative Days, May 3-4, met with Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Chris Shays, and Rob Simmons to seek support for the nation's libraries. They also saw aides in the offices ofRepresentatives John Larson and Nancy Johnson Connecticut's delegation to ALA/Washington's Legislative Days, May 3·4. and Senator Joe Lieberman. From left: Peter Ciparelli, co·chair, CLA Legislative Committee; Michael The delegation asked the state's Golrick, member, ALA Executive Board; Chris Bradley, president, CLA; elected officials to support the Congressman Chris Shays; Alice Knapp, president-elect, CLA; Les Kozerowitz, past president, CLA; and Ken Wiggin, state librarian. j ay johnston, CLA's President's recommended increase in representative to the A LA Council, was also a member 0/the delegation. LSTA funding, (inspired by his wife!). Congressman Simmons 8 d was an early sponsor of an in­ hnp:/Icla.u con n. u recipients for Head Start early creased LST A appropriation for literacy projects. FY 2005-2006, which, if ap­ Our delegation felt optimistic proved by Congress, will net about LST A since the increase is already in the President's bud­ Connecticut hundreds of thou­ Obversion: Intellectual Freedom ....... .. 2 sands of dollars in additional fed­ Looking At Books: The Bug ............ ...... 2 get and all Congress has to do is eral funding. President: In Celebration of support his budget. This is easier Other important issues dis­ Good Writing ... ....................................... .. 3 than asking them to add to it in CLA Executive Board Highlights .......... 4 cussed were the increase for the the appropriations process (as it Membership as a Staff Government Printing Office, is on the state level as well.) Development Initiative .................. .. .... 4 Connecticut's elected officials are copyright, and an increase in Treasures: w.w. Bunnell Library ......... 5 funding for school libraries un­ To the Editor Regarding Treasures ..... 6 supportive of library funding, der the No Child Left Behind CLA Conference 2006 ........................... .. 7 and also of our concerns about Act. Also on the agenda was the Connecticard Is In Trouble ...................... 8 the USA Patriot Act. We asked Technology: Pests in the Network .. .. 9 them to support the SAFE re-authorization of Head Start CLA Publications Awards ...................... 10 amendments to that act, which this year. We asked that the re­ Exhibit: The Great Fl ood of 1955 ..... 11 authorized language include People ..................... ....... .............. ............ .. .. 12 would allow public libraries to public libraries as potential grant abide by the law but still pro­ Periodicals Department tect their patrons' privacy .• Hilton C. Buley Library Southern CT State University New Haven, CT 06515 Intellectual Freedom and the First Amendment As director of three academic libraries Joined together under have no problem with exceeding the limits of "fair use" copying or the umbrella of the University of Connecticut's Tri-Campus, I head a uploading similar information produced by their colleagues when team of library practitioners who serve students, staff, and faculty classroom needs arise. at three campuses-Greater Hartford, Torrington and Waterbury. To address issues like the aforementioned, Dr. Edna McBreen, We receive strong support from our administrators and users who heads up the Tri-Campus, earlier this year convened ameeting although that does not in any way make us immune from the on freedom of speech in an academic setting. All Tri-Campus faculty controversies of the day.The academic community provides anumber William Uricchio and slaff were invited to attend and a large number turned out. A of service challenges and, as I am sure you are aware, issues panel of speakers made brief presentations, which were followed related to freedom of speech are in the upper echelon of difficulty. by an open discussion led by Connecticut's new state historian, Professor Recent events involvingtwo academics, Ward Churchill from the University Walter Woodward. of Colorado, Boulder, and lawrence Summers of Harvard, point to the yin yang By virtue of my management position, and perhaps because I've been situation that seems to permeate academic culture at the moment. Churchill's faculty known to spout off on these issues from time to time, I was invited to make a colleagues are ferociously defending his light to make statements that many in the presentation on behalf of the campus libraries. What follows is aslightly longer general public find offensive.Summers' detractors,many of them faculty members, version of what I had to say. are seeking to punish him for saying things that they find equally disturbing. Freedom of Speech - An Academic library Context Another sensi tive situation involves the cloudy issues surrounding access "Freedom of Speech" extends to a number of issues gathered together under the to information. Many of the same faculty authors who depend on publishing in heading of what the library profession is fond of calling "intellectual freedom:' professional journals to share their research and advance their careers, and Included are freedoms to print, to disseminate, to read, to own, to produce, to watch, who look forward to receiving royalties for their copyrighted efforts, seem to Continued on page 7 The Bug by Ellen Ullman (Nan A. Telesel Ooubleday, 2003) Sometime In the 1980's, about the time powerful rules are not the product of careful that the '286 chip was being introduced to the planning or rational thought. Many rules computer world, I was attending a computer result from carelessness, arrogance, class with a number of other librarians from misunderstanding, time pressure, and southeastern Connecticl.lt. One week, our technological limitations. homework was to develop aspreadsheet that The dot.com bubble is about to burst when we could use for a library-related purpose, we meet Berta Walton, a successful woman like budget administration, inventory, calculating who has risen through the ranks of the payroll for part-time staff, etc. I diligently software industry. An unremarkable exchange planned my spreadsheet on scrap paper, with an immigration official at an airport drafting and re-drafting columns and rows, pushes Berta 's thoughts back to 1984 and to checking and double-checking formulas and her first computer industry job. It is a time labels. Then, I typed up my creation, entered when the now familiar mouse and graphic my values, and let the program crank out the final numbers. user interface are just beginning to be employed . A fugitive The spreadsheet looked great until I checked the math. One from the academic world of literature, Berta's IT career began cell was incorrect. I went over the formulas. 1 reviewed my with the position of software tester for a start-up called class notes and handouts. Even after several nights of searching, Telligensia. Berta's function was to run pre-release versions LOOKING AT Icould not find where Ihad gone wrong. Nor could my instructor. of company software and report problemsto the programmers He contacted the software company .The problem was aknown, who were responsible for the "bugs" in the code. Like all but rarely seen software bug. The combination of values and testers, her status was low. formulas that I entered would inevitably result in nonsense. All Programmers resent having their work picked apart by would be correct in the next release! I still resent it when a menials who could not perform the simplest of programming computer program betrays my trust. What kind of people functions. Resolving bugs is tedious and keeps them behind write programs that don't work? schedule, but programmers recognize that debugging is part Ellen Ullman, herself acomputer programmer for over two of the job. Most bugs are minor issues that programmers decades, brings us a novel that peeks inside the process of track down one step at a time-except for a bug labeled U1­ writing software and provides insight into the people who 1017. Berta finds the bug, the 10171h problem discovered in write it. Throughout her book, Ullman reminds us that the the user interface, and reports it to the responsible world of computers is not the same world in which we humans programmer, Ethan Levin. As usual, he ignores her and continues live. The computer world, comprised as it is of hardware, working until he can find time to tackle the bug.The first sign operating systems, and application software, is a creation of of serious trouble is Ethan's inability to replicate the problem man. It is bound by rules that may just as easily ignore our encountered by Berta. He arrogantly chastises the messenger human needs as address them. Often, the computer world's Continued on page 3 CONNECTICUT LlBIUIRIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 2 LOOKING AT BOOKS Continued from page 2 and closes the bug file. However, UI-1 017 will not be denied. It returns sporadically, unpredictably, like a ghost, like the "Jester" in a deck of cards, and as Ethan Levin's nemesis. LlI­ 1017 places all of Telligentsia at risk, as impatient venture In Celebration of Good Writing capitalists insist on a fast return on investment. Chris BradLey Ethan Levin is an oddball even in a workplace filled with We've taken some hits lately-Arthur Miller, Hunter Thompson, Saul Bellow-all the more than tile usual set of personality peculiarities. While more reason to pay attention to good writing. Hunter Thompson never gave us aWillie Loman, Levin does not fit in at work, his home life is no more comfortable. but his writing made the heartland come alive for me as I read Fear and Loathing on IIle His long-time girlfriend Joanna resents his coolness.
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