[WEB4LIB] RE: Seattletimes.com: Public to taste life without its libraries

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Without knowing off-hand anything about the programming behind Google's
'cached page' feature, I am now wondering if the Seattle public libraries'
pages would be viewable via Google, and if so, if Google would be considered
in such an instance to be comparable to a 'scab worker' during a strike?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
>...it is imperative
> that the Web site be "shuttered."  Anything less is misleading and
> unfair to both your staff and your community....

----- Original Message -----
From: <jwang_94121 at yahoo.com>
> ...When Seattle public libraries go dark for a week next Monday, the
closure will have far more chilling implications than a late-summer
"furlough" might on the surface suggest. For a variety of...
>
> Full story:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
lug=paul19&date=20020819
> ...