Siberian BAM Railway Guidebook

[Mila Khayutin]

I would like to respectfully disagree with some of the most recent
opinions, re: perceived commercialization of this message. The lists like
ours are supposed to be the place for professional information exchange,
for seeking help/giving help, for SHARING what list members perceive to be
of relevance to the field, and of help to others. By definition, I am
participating in the SLAVLIBS discussion group, where A. Urbanic, who
moderates the group, never shies away from posting publishing news/book
related news in the field, or even messages, that could be clearly defined
as commercial, although all of them are closely related to the field of
Slavic librarianship. I have no difficulty trusting professional
judgements of SEELANG participants in posting any message to the list,
that they themselves WOULD CONSIDER TO BE WORTHY OF POSTING, be it new
trends in education, news on books, WWW sites, language-related queries,
etc. We constantly deal with selecting and storing bits and pieces of
useful information. And I trust, we all know by now how to use the
"delete" key for the one we do not need.
Mila Khayutin
Processing Services
McMaster University Libraries
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Athol Yates wrote:

> Re Siberian Rail Guide
> I strongly apologise if the recent posting about the Siberian rail
> guidebook is considered inappropriate for Seelangs.
> The reason I posted it is because I know that some subscribers would find
> it interesting as they contributed to the book in the dozens of language
> questions that I have posted on this list over the last 2 years. Just a
> few of the many that I have thanked in the book are Kirill Yakovlevsky,
> Alex Klementiev, Mikhail Podolon, Natalya Chernetsova, Richard Fleming,
> Alexei Lebedev and Angela Brintlinger. (Unfortunately, I do not have
> their email addresses anymore)
> I thank the 3 respondants for their critical messages and I appreciate
> their comments.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Athol Yates
>