I should have noted that the letter was a copy (also
sent to the ICARE list) that was sent to John Siegfried,
Secretary of the AEA. I only learned from John Adams that
he was the official author of the dump letter. I went to
grad school (U-Wisconsin-Madison) with him, so took the
A few years back, the University of Utah library tried to use journal
usage as a method of deciding which journal subscriptions to maintain.
They told patrons to leave the journals on the tables after examination,
instead of reshelving them. After a period of time, the library began
labelling the
