Chat: another view -Reply

[Wilfred Drew]

No one is discounting the value of chat as a learning tool.  The real
question is what is the prefered use of a scarce resource (microcomputers
in the library connected to the Internet) on one part of a campus as
cpmpared to another part.  This is not a case where one answer fits all
situations.  We simply do not have enough machines to allow chat to go on. 
It is entirely a judgement call that each library must make.  There is no
right or wrong involved here.
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