[WEB4LIB] RE: website training and review - what works?

[Daniel Messer]

Kathy Wheeler <kwheeler at jaguar1.usouthal.edu> said:

> Tony, I also wanted to ask a question. How is not having all types of names 
> a breach of academic freedom? I'm asking this question simply to know, not 
> to be a smart alec or to flame anybody.

I don't know what Tony's take on that is, but I agree with him in the respect 
that a library is supposed to be a place of free information. I don't know 
the policies of other universities, but where I went to school absolutly 
anybody could USE the library. There was a charge for a non-student/non-
faculty to get a card, but no one blinked an eye to someone just walking in 
and utilizing the collection in house. Since your university was more or less 
opposed easy access to your library, they were thus blocking access to free 
information. That, in my opinion, is a breach of academic freedom.

Just a thought.
Dan

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Daniel Messer
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Yakima Valley Regional Library
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