Comments on: Like a Child in a Candy Store… http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/ looking for alternative explanations Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:53:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JoelNothman.com » One person’s rubbish is another person’s… http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-681 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:35:46 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-681 [...] able to grab as he wished from the USyd Library Undergraduate Collection, as he described, “Like a child in a candy store…“, collecting 31 [...]

]]> By: Simon Holloway http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-677 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:30:17 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-677 There were those who missed out on this one for the same reason. I can understand that. Although I did have to both ship and schlepp a total of four-hundred-and-something books home to Australia when the time came for me to leave Israel.

Maybe I have an addiction…

]]> By: Joel Nothman http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-673 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:05:42 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-673 Jealous. I somehow managed to miss the sale of a local Montreal synagogue’s library… And I was told about it. I think I stupidly excused it by a busy week and heavy luggage…

]]> By: Simon Holloway http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-617 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:42:33 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-617 The books that were given away were all books of which the university already has at least one other copy. Turns out that that which they did not get rid of will be being sold after all: I will be sure to attend the book fete too!

So far as undergrads are concerned (bless them), they’re now getting more priveleges than ever before. It means that I get to feel less special for being a postgrad (the 8-week renewable loans that postgrads always got are now given to everybody), but it is probably fairer this way.

]]> By: Jen http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-616 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:32:11 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-616 So undergrads will no longer have access to those books? Seems a little unfair to them…

]]> By: Simon Holloway http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-613 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:52:58 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-613 I know, it doesn’t make much sense to me either. They should have opened the collection up to the general public and charged between $2 and $5 a book. With thousands of books, they would have made a fortune. At the very least, if they don’t think that they need the money, they could have given it to a charity of some description – even if that charity was inwards-focused, like another scholarship to help someone who cannot afford to study full-time.

At the end of the day, I don’t think that they really thought too deeply about it. They only wanted one copy of each text so they got rid of the undergraduate library as a means of fulfilling that rather strange goal. Good luck to them. My room looks better now, thanks to their thoughtless generosity.

]]> By: tim bulkeley http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-612 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:38:45 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-612 Why? (Of course I’m envious, naturally I value electronic texts and publications, but why get rid oc a resource like this?)

]]> By: Conrad http://benabuya.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-606 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:00:08 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/like-a-child-in-a-candy-store/#comment-606 You lucky bastard.

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