[WEB4LIB] email in libraries

[Floyd Ingram]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Donald Barclay
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 6:16 PM
>
> Arguments about rights and limited resources aside, I remember one of the
> smartest things I ever heard a library director say. I was
> telling her that
> lots of people were doing email on library computers and that some
> librarians thought the practice should be banned.  She said,
> approximately,
> "I'd rather have a student graduate from this university thinking of the
> library as the place where he did his email than have him
> graduate thinking
> of the library as the place where he never set foot in four years
> of college."
>
So without e-mail, they will not use the library?...that's a shame!  That
must be an average or below student who walked his way through college doing
very little scholarly work.  We have "D" students who have never set foot in
a library...BUT they don't graduate.

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