e-mail in libraries

[Leslie M Kuizema]

Just a thought...
Could one use email to contact an "expert" in a particular field?  Would 
that fit your definition of research?  Also, how did you become the one 
to judge what an appropriate use of the internet is?  Many of my patrons 
use the internet to find recipes.  Is this a valid use???

Leslie Kuizema
Asst Head/Adult Services
Bloomingdale Public Library
Bloomingdale Illinois
http://www.xnet.com/~bdale

On Tue, 27 May 1997, Joe Schallan wrote:

> Jack Albrecht wrote:
> > 
> > At the San Diego Public Library, we are pointing patrons to the URL,
> > but give the patrons a disclaimer stating that the library and library
> > staff cannot be responsible if HOTMAIL is having problems.  For the
> > most part, HOTMAIL seems to do well what it aims to do, providing free
> > e-mail access to those who haven't got regular e-mail accounts . . .
> 
> Why is providing free access to e-mail part of the public library's
> mission?
> How many libraries provide a bank of phones for public use?  After all,
> those monthly line charges are annoying, as are the long-distance
> charges.
> 
> And what if someone has been waiting to use that workstation for
> research?
> 
> Netscape workstations don't *look* like boxes of tax forms, but they
> seem to be proving that once again we have ventured far afield,
> further stretching our already limited resources and demanding yet
> another piece of our already much-called-for attention.
> 
> Was Sallie Tisdale so very wrong?
> 
> Flame away.
> 
> Joe "drummed out of ALA for questioning
> data processing" Schallan
> 
> jschall at glenpub.lib.az.us
> 
>