IP-PUB - Infopeople Public Service Archive: (Fwd) Information kiosks - Post Office?

(Fwd) Information kiosks - Post Office?

Infopeople PUB List (ippubman@library.berkeley.edu)
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:22:39 +0000

Sender: Gayle Schmidt <gayle@mbay.net>
Subject: Information kiosks - Post Office?

One of our volunteers in the Seaside Library Internet Program sent me the
following message. I plan myself to submit my strong feelings that
libraries rather than the post office should be the site of any such
information kiosks. Here is the message:
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... I've been asked to attend "the first U.S. Postal Service and Library
Community Seminar," to be held January 13, 1995 in Washington. The
background here is 1) the postal service came up with this idea to place
government-funded information kiosks in post offices, and issued a press
release; 2) Sue Davidsen, eagle-eyed librarian at University of Michigan,
noticed this press release and forwarded it to library-related electronic
discussion lists; 3) a number of us immediately began protesting, arguing
that the first site of choice for these kiosks should be LIBRARIES. No
criticism here of post offices or their employees; it's just that we
librarians have special skills at helping people access information--just as
postal workers have special skills with their own "document delivery."

If you are interested in contacting the USPS about this issue, email their
point of contact, Elaine McGirr, at
emcgirr@email.usps.gov.

The above excerpt from:
http://sashimi.wwa.com/~jayhawk/
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Regards,

Jack Myers Salinas, CA jwmyers@ix.netcom.com

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Gayle Schmidt
gayle@mbay.net