When Dale Askey, associate librarian at Mc-Master University, voiced his opinion of Edwin Mellen Press in his personal bloe while he was working as a librarian at Kansas State University, he had no idea of what would soon transpire. Edwin Mellen Press is now suing Askey for $4.5 million in damages, which the publisher alleges will compensate for tainting its reputation. In response to the law- suit, ALA president Maureen Sullivan voiced her concern: "This action strikes at a core responsibility of all librarians as information professionals to provide considered, critical advice to the read
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