[WEB4LIB] Legit Internet Use

[Tom Edelblute]

If we are going to be paying money for the subscirption databases, we
want them to be available without having to wait for an Internet
computer.  After all, 90% of our Internet useage is for e-mail and chat
rooms.

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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us

Michael Sauers wrote:
> 
> > That way we ensure that something will be available for
> > research without having to kick someone off an Internet
> > computer.
> 
> Ahh, the 'R' word. Are you implying that there are no 'research' uses for
> the Internet or even that there are no 'non-research' purposes for your
> databases? And, just what should be considered 'research' anyway? You're
> library has Danielle Steele books, right? What are the research purposes of
> those? What right does a librarian have to decide what is 'research' and
> what is not? (Assuming we have the right to know what their doing or why
> they're doing it in the first place.)
> 
> (Let the fun begin... ;-)
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