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

(Fwd) Re: Information kiosks - Post Office?

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Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:13:11 +0000

Sender: Carole Leita <leita@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Information kiosks - Post Office?

Please note - this issue and discussion took place LAST January. Karen
Schneider (currently in the PhD program at UMich) kschneid@umich.edu) is
the person who sent the note quoted below, if you have further questions.

Carole
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Carole Leita, leita@netcom.com
Internet/Reference Librarian, 510-644-6100 ext.313
Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley CA 94703
URL: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/
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> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> .. 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/
> Check out a list of library-related sites [NEW]
> Success stories
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack Myers Salinas, CA jwmyers@ix.netcom.com
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Gayle Schmidt
> gayle@mbay.net
>
>
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