[Air-L] exporting an even older technology

[Barry Wellman]

I am sorry, but I do not have the time nor the ability to mentor students
with regard to a rather diverse set of 2,000+ books.

 Barry Wellman
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  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
  Centre for Urban & Community Studies           University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue          Room 418          Toronto Canada M5S 2G8
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-7162
  Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
         Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, nsenga at mediom.qc.ca wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:20:13 -0400
> From: "nsenga at mediom.qc.ca" <nsenga at mediom.qc.ca>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Cc: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
> Subject: RE: [Air-L] exporting an even older technology
>
>
> Professor Wellman,
>
> Since I understand you are retiring and "consolidating offices", have you
> considered perhaps assisting Vietnamese students and teachers to CRITICALLY
> read the books you are "exporting" to them?
>
> I received a similar request several years ago from my former Department at
> the University of Nairobi, for old Design books and old computers. I just
> declined...! I rather proposed to start a locally inspired Design incubator
> for graduates, to slowly  bring them to invent and innovate their own
> indigenous materials and equipments; eventually with some Canadian remote
> guidance...
>
> Francois
> Montreal
>
>
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:05:47 -0400
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] exporting an even older technology
>
>
> I am now exporting to the third world an even older technology than PCS,
> one that is also subject to insects and moisture, but may have a longer
> shelf life:
> BOOKS!
>
> I'm consolidating offices, and after 40 years of being a prof., I have 50
> cartons of books to give away. Turns out, University of Toronto library
> doesn't want them. Books are so twentieth century!
>
> But Vietnam's universities do!
> And are willing to pay for shipping.
> As I moved to Canada to be a prof. in 1967, that the books will end up in
> Vietnam is a happy circumstance.
>
> Hey, hey, LBJ -- how many books did you burn today?
>
> The discussion on this list by Denise, etc strikes a note, as my student
> just returned from three happy months in rural eastern Ghana. She
> got to use a computer by bicyling over to the nearby hotel. And her school
> built a website, even though they don't have a PC. (BTW, she reports that
> Paris Hilton is the best known American in her area.)
>
>  Barry Wellman
>
> PS: In case you're wondering, consolidating offices, but certainly not
> retiring.
>
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>
>   S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
>   Centre for Urban & Community Studies           University of Toronto
>   455 Spadina Avenue          Room 418          Toronto Canada M5S 2G8
>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman            fax:+1-416-978-7162
>   Updating history:     http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
>          Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
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