From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:27:34 -0500

Thanks to all of you who have called our attention to the issue with PABBIS. Monica has put it all in a nutshell here, and you can rest assured that we will be looking into #2 with our university authorities this week to see what, if anything, can or should be done. We'll update you when we have more info.

In the meantime, it's time to switch gears (and topics) here, which I'll do in the next message.

KTH


Kathleen T. Horning, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706

horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3721 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/

There are two separate issues here.

1. The existence of PABBIS.

2. That PABBIS has taken a bunch of posts from last month's ccbcnet discussion, incorrectly identified the source (that ccbcnet is part of ALA) and stuck them on their website.

It is #2 that concerns me (as I had heard of the group before). Is this legal? I'm pretty shocked that this can be done, but perhaps I'm naive. Certainly, if a group stuck some of my material on their website (as opposed to linking to mine), mis-cited it, and then added their own negative comments, I'd be pretty uncomfortable. Folks from ccbc-net: is this okay? (Since those whose posts were taken are not identified I'm not sure they can complain directly.)


Thanks, Monica



Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.com

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