[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries

[Lin Light]

Thought email is a useful component of the internet world, I find that more are
using it for personal use and not research or business in our library.
Lin


bboru at si.umich.edu wrote:

> More worrisome than restricting a legitimate research tool such as e-mail is
> the unquestioning acceptance of doing so. It seems to be more a matter of
> expediency than reasoning that leads libraries to obstruct this kind of
> access. The difficulty of preventing excessive use and the obvious limits
> of resources *may* make this restriction necessary. But it should be
> considered a necessary evil and, hopefully, a temporary one. One could well
> argue, after all, that circulating books rather than keeping them
> in-house is an unwarranted use of resources.
>
> Above all, libraries should avoid seeming patronizing when making such
> restrictions and should hasten to offer the necessary effusive apologies and
> explanations.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Brian Sheppard
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Lin Light
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Herrick District Library
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