[WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries

[Feng Shan]

I'm not sure what kind of library you are talking about. Sounds like you
intend to have a comprehensive library that will keep a little bit of
everything. That might be true for huge size libraries, like NYPL, (not
its numerous branches though), but definitely not a feasible solution for
most of the libraries including academic, special, school, and public
libraries. Space, budget, personnel, won't allow for that.

My 1 cent.

Feng Shan
fshan at iusb.edu


> The point being, some libraries want to limit the use of their library to
> the type they feel is the best one for their users. Research or Recreation.
> I say let the user decide what they would like their library to do to serve
> them instead of the library telling the user what they can be served.
> 
> Libraries have to learn to be all things to all users.
> (not an easy task but its worth a try)
> 
> Granted some of the libraries are poor. They need to find a good working
> solution to meet the average needs of the library user.
> 
> Networking is a good thing. It is providing what your budget could not.
> 
> my 2.7 cents
> 
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> Carl Ratz                               * 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Mitchell [mailto:mdm at nbpl.lib.tx.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 2:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: E-mail in libraries
> 
> 
> >
> >I am continually troubled by the heavy-handed approach some members of our
> >profession take when it comes to recreational use of the Internet,
> particularly >those in public libraries. So what if someone wants to use the
> Internet to play >games or chat or send email? We provide popular reading
> materials in the line >of cartoon collections, graphic novels, steamy
> romance novels, and books of >trivia & games....why should we prohibit
> similar use of the Internet?
> 
> And I suppose you provide a bank of free and unlimited telephones? We see
> E-mail and chat as extensions of the same principle. And free phone service
> would be cheaper to provide, too. A fifteen dollar phone costing $15 a month
> seems lots cheaper than a $1000 PC hooked up to an expensive ISDN or T-1
> line with lots of maintenance costs. 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Mitchell
> Tech Services Librarian/System Administrator
> Dittlinger Memorial Library
> New Braunfels, TX 
> mdm at nbpl.lib.tx.us
> 
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