I like this idea

[zwol]

Benjamin Mako Hill and a bunch of friends went and stuck overprice tags on all the ridiculously expensive journals in the MIT library.

Hey wondergecko, can we do this at UCSD?

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[wondergecko.livejournal.com]

I need to read my friends page more.

Sadly, while I agree with the sentiment, I also have to work with the people who need to take those off and they'd be very unhappy.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

They come with price stickers? Or is it the collecting into bound volumes that would have a problem?

[wondergecko.livejournal.com]

The addition of price stickers. I'm not 100% certain, but that may be considered a form of vandalism, which is a no-no with our preservation people.

Albeit, you may want to ask the people at S&E. If it's just on the outside of the volumes, it's decidedly less harmful than people writing in them, adding sticky notes, and what not.

So it depends? Although I might be able to ask around discretely about that kind of thing at work and see what the responses are. 8)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I've already contacted them semi-officially -- I sent a query to the cognitive science library liason (Alice Perez) around the same time I posted this, and she said she'd talk to Periodicals and get back to me. I wouldn't mind if you asked around at work, though.

[wondergecko.livejournal.com]

Can do.

And this is probably better than booktheft, that's for sure. ;) I can't believe that guy on Saturday...

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Bwuh?

[wondergecko.livejournal.com]

Oh, did I not mention that in the course of talking your ear off? XD We had a guy pretty brazenly try to steal a couple of books on Saturday.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Nope, this is the first I've heard of it. How brazen are we talking, here?

[wondergecko.livejournal.com]

Ripping off the barcodes and lying (badly) to get the books-brazen. He "forgot his ID," which means he wasn't a student here or anywhere else, it turns out.

J'amuse. (is that even proper french?)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

As the man says (http://www.absurdnotions.org/page72.html) , you don't find smart people robbing banks. Or libraries.

I think it's proper French, but theees, I know, from noooothing.