[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries

[Wilfred Drew]

>
> The real question seems to me to be that since we're spending the money to
> provide the equipment for other uses and since it doesn't cost anything
> MORE to allow its use for email, why not do so when it's possible?


There is a real cost to allowing e-mail.  It is lack of access to those that
need to

--
Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill"); Associate Librarian (Systems, Reference)
President, SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA)
SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.;   P.O. Box 902;  Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
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--use the resources provided by the library.  I believe it is called an
opportunity cost in economics.