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 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, nsenga@mediom.qc.ca wrote:
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:20:13 -0400 From: "nsenga@mediom.qc.ca" <nsenga@mediom.qc.ca> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: wellman@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@chass.utoronto.ca Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:05:47 -0400 To: air-l@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.
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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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