Another Job I Don’t Want
September 6th 2010 02:05 pm
Yesterday I made a trip to the bookstore, then headed for their coffee shop to sit and read for a while.
One of my purchases was a collection of short essays, and I wanted to check the copyright date on one of them. At the bottom of the page with all that sort of information is this:
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American
National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984.
The Libertarian in me balked, and I was going to come home and rant loundly herein. But a cursory check indicates that the ANSI is a member organization that “coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors.”
Oh. Okay.
Now I am just left to marvel that there are people, somewhere, who are paid to spend time being concerned with the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.