Chat on public access Internet

[Millard Johnson]

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Brian Stone wrote:

> Why not just use blocking software? 

Isobel Stark said:

But why should we view chat and/or mail as time wasting?  Surely we're not
all time wasting on this list?

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Seems like we need to think about what the library is.  There are
many wonderful things we COULD do to make life better for our
patrons.  If chat, Email, and games are what the library should be
doing, should we have a bank of free long distance phones?  Should
we loan video games, conduct a dating service?  We need to 
question if we should do things just because the technology now
makes it possible for us to do it.

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Millard F. Johnson zendog at incolsa.palni.edu
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