[Air-L] Please suggest titles for the AOIR Book Exhibit

[elw at stderr.org]

Hum.

I am a bit skeptical of organizational motives, here.

See this link

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-German&month=0402&week=c&msg=ZlkctLKYQSO81sbwcH90ww&user=&pw=

originally obtained from the old invisible adjunct site.

I do believe I've seen this same group (Library of Social Science) put out 
what I usually call "spam" onto several listservs related to this one.

Usually those seem to consist of some sort of promo for a piece of 
Holocaust-related vanity publishing - something about logics of war, 
terrorism, psychology of Hitler, etc.  All legitimate research topics... 
but all pretty disturbing stuff.

I'm not really sure about the wisdom of AoIR being connected with this 
group.  It seems less than benign, to me... is AoIR's conference perhaps 
being used as a vehicle to raise the profile of LSS?

I found it particularly strange that authors were being asked to provide 
detailed information about their contacts at publishers - don't publishers 
usually take care of some of these sorts of things on their own?  Getting 
a table for one of their reps, getting their own books to conference, et 
cetera...

Can someone on the conference site committee or the program committee 
explain what the heck is going on, here?

--e


> From: Orion Anderson <libraryofsocialscience at earthlink.net>

> The 2007 meeting of the ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS will feature 
> a book exhibit specially organized and managed by the LIBRARY OF SOCIAL 
> SCIENCE. The exhibit will bring together recent and significant titles 
> covering all things Internet, as well as titles on new media

> Library of Social Science
> 92-30 56th Ave., Suite 3-E
> Elmhurst, NY 11373
> T: (718) 393-1075
> F: (413) 832-8145
>
> Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director
> Mei Ha Chan, Associate Director
> Orion Anderson, Communications Director
> Richard Klein, Marketing Manager
>
> Website for LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS:
> http://libraryofsocialscience.com/
>  
> 2006/2007 LSS BOOK EXHIBIT SCHEDULE:
> http://libraryofsocialscience.com/sched.html