[WEB4LIB] Libraries hosting people's web pages

[Bill Feidt]

That's a very interesting idea. In their role as proponents of public
knowledge, what more logical extension than promoting and
supporting, perhaps even housing, "community" information sources?
The old "think globally, act locally" bit. Libraries working in conjunction
with patrons to create new, readily accessible knowledge makes
a lot of sense, in concept anyway. The work at Schenectady Public
recently posted about offers a very good example of  the kinds of
things that could be accomplished.

Bill Feidt
AgNIC
wfeidt at nal.usda.gov

At 09:13 AM 10/26/98 -0800, John Jewell wrote:
>We have been asked if there are any public libraries hosting people's web
>sites - that is, providing a web server on which people within the community
>being served by that library could stage their own personal web pages.
>
>Our own initial search and contact with library consultants has not turned
>up anything on public libraries doing this. The general response has been
>along these lines:  "I don't know of any. I would expect, with the
>proliferation of free Web pages hosting sites that there would be no pluses
>and a lot of minuses for a library to take this on. "