[WEB4LIB] RE: More Library News From the State of Washington

[William M. Wines]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Kevil, L H. wrote:

> Hey, do you think we could keep the political potshots out of this discussion list? So far the participants have taken only one side of a fundamental issue, on both sides of which there are good people and good arguments. Do we want to see a technical forum degenerate into a flame war?

As a public librarian, I don't think that there IS more than one side to
the issue when you have people seriously talking about eliminating public
libraries.  Or am I failing to appreciate the nuances?

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Bill Wines
Assistant Director
Walled Lake City Library
1499 E. West Maple Rd.
Walled Lake, MI 48390
(248) 624-3772
http://walled-lake.lib.mi.us
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 somewhere, but I don't know who they could be." --
		Denis Horgan, _Hartford Courant_, July 17, 2002