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[davidschroth]

Someone in corporate, in their not so infinite wisdom, decided that we, as a corporation, don't really need any of our corporate libraries. So they shut them down.

They acknowledge that we, as R&D organizations, might actually have a need of some of the books and periodicals in our libraries to do R&D. So they're giving us two weeks to come up with a list of the holdings that we think we need to keep. Once they get the list, they'll decide what further they need to do.

I just got the list. I/we have two weeks to select the keepers from a list of ~11,000 books.

Argh.

I gotta believe, with current corporate management, that shorting Unisys stock is a winning proposition.

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[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got that ... I was asking what the body in Treddy who was given the list of 10K+ books and magazines to select from/dispose of in 2 weeks had come up with.
Since the A-series folks are closer to the suits and have been at emulating their hardware longer than the 2200 folks, I was curious if he/she might be in a slight better position with regard to accomplishing the task in some reasonable fashion.

Beats the heck out of me. Each location is responsible for coming up with their own list of materials to retain (which is unfortunate - Tredy and MV each have a copy of a book I want, and we don't).

As far as being high enough up the corporate food chain to receive a golden parachute - fat chance. I'm thinking it would help, tremendously, if I'd worked at HP recently...