[WEB4LIB] Re: Millenium Greetings

[Beatrice Mettraux]

To all Web4lib-members,

Happy New Year to all of you! Hope we will keep on building bridges between 
people and knowledge!
Beatrice



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At 00:37 31/12/99 -0800, Hanan Cohen wrote:
>The question of when a millennium begins has been going around several
>discussion groups in the past few months.
>
>Since it started also here, I would like to ask how the fact that we work in
>libraries affect our reaction to this issue.
>
>Apart from that, it warms my heart to read greetings from all around the globe
>and know that we all share the same motivation, to promote good use of 
>knowledge
>and information.
>
>Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:
> >
> > I am wondering if 2001 would have been the focus if not for the Y2K 
> computer
> > bug uproar.  After all, Stanley Kubrick didn't name the movie "2000, Space
> > Odyssey." But then maybe that was just a matter of meter and rhythm.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Yvonne Reynolds <Reynolds at nbict.nbi.ac.za>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 11:30 PM
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Millenium Greetings
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I've been taught that the year 2000 is the last year of the century and
> > millenium- just as a 100 runs = century in cricket, not 99 runs. 2001 
> is the
> > beginning of a new millenium/century to me.
> > > Yvonne
> > >
> > >
> > > >>> "Brent J. Pliskow" <htwd at tln.lib.mi.us> 12/30/99 09:54PM >>>
> > > I've been taught that the year 2000 is the beginning of the next Century,
> > > not the Millenium.  What do we tell our patrons?  Is it the new 
> Millenium,
> > > the new Century, or both?
> > >
> > > Hope everyone has a wonderful celebration.  I will be working New Year's
> > Eve
> > > making sure no problems are encountered.
> > >
> > > Happy New Year!
> > >
> > > **************************
> > > Brent J. Pliskow
> > > Huntington Woods Public Library
> > > Webmaster / Technology Assistant
> > > Web Site: http://www.huntington-woods.lib.mi.us
> > > E-mail: pliskowbj at hiram.edu
> > >
>
>--
>Hanan Cohen
>
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