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&we... 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@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