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-- Jessica > From: "stephen O'Riordan" <soriordan@ucsd.edu> > Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:47:44 -0800 (PST) > To: Multiple recipients of list <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> > Subject: Re: CA Libraries & Drugs > > Jessica, > > I agree w/ Gary. I certainly know nothing about this at UCSD. > > Stephen > > > > > At 11:38 AM 3/28/01 -0800, you wrote: >> I should have figured that anything involving drug policy would not apply to >> Berkeley but I have gotten this from a number of California institutions >> almost all of them University Librarirs >> -- >> Jessica Rosner >> Kino International >> 333 W 39th St. 503 >> NY NY 10018 >> jrosner@kino.com >> >>> From: Gary Handman <ghandman@library.berkeley.edu> >>> Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu >>> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:28:19 -0800 (PST) >>> To: Multiple recipients of list <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> >>> Subject: Re: CA Libraries & Drugs >>> >>> This certainly doesn't apply to Berkeley.... I think this falls into the >>> "give me break" category... >>> >>> gary >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> At 10:59 AM 03/28/2001 -0800, you wrote: >>>> Hope that got your attention >>>> >>>> A question for any of California Librarians ( that means you Gary) >>>> I sometimes receive these absurd forms with orders from California >>>> Public Institutions that in order to be paid for an order we must >>>> CERTIFY that we are a "drug free workplace". I find this both >> offensive and >>>> ridiculous. They do not ask us to certify that we are Alcohol, Murder, >>>> Racist, Sexist etc free just drugs. I realize this is just a silly law >>>> passed by some legislators with too much time on their hands but I find it >>>> very disturbing and as a matter of principle I will not sign these forms >>>> Usually nothing happens but recently after a correspondence with a >>>> University Librarian she returned an order. I don't care about the lost >>>> order or even any further lost orders because this is a ridiculous >> rule but >>>> I wonder how you guys handle this. Incidentally the order in question was >>>> for my women directors series which unlike most other Kino titles is NOT >>>> available from any other source so this means that the University in >>>> question will never carry these titles. >>>> -- >>>> Jessica Rosner >>>> Kino International >>>> 333 W 39th St. 503 >>>> NY NY 10018 >>>> jrosner@kino.com >>> >>> Gary Handman >>> Director >>> Media Resources Center >>> Moffitt Library >>> UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 >>> 510-643-8566 >>> ghandman@library.berkeley.edu >>> >>> "You are looking into the mind of home video. It is innocent, it is >> aimless, >>> it is determined, it is real" --Don DeLillo, Underworld >>> > > Stephen O'Riordan > Film & Video Library > University of Calif. San Diego > 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla Ca 92023-0175Q > phone: (858) 534-7981 > fax: (858) 534-0189 > e-mail: soriordan@ucsd.edu > http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/fvl/FVLPAGE.HTM >