I find it deliciously ironic that in this incredibly tough budget year, lavish corporate enterprises such as WorldCom and Enron collapsed, while the outfit I work for--the little old Librarians' Index to the Internet--miraculously survived, courtesy of continued (if reduced) funding through our state funding source. It's a credit to how much we are appreciated (and to how little it takes to keep us going). Nevertheless, there have been rough moments when I had to ask myself, if we were cut to the point where we could not pay our staff for all or part of our budget year, what would we do? Would we "just leave up the site," as someone suggested, while we looked for other funding? I rejected that idea--leaving an abandoned Web site up sounded too much like Scarlett O'Hara dressing up in her mother's curtains and insisting to Rhett Butler that everything at warshocked Tara was just fine.
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