IP-PUB - Infopeople Public Service Archive: Re: Free email

Re: Free email

Infopeople PUB List (ippubman@library.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:35:26 -0700

Sender: lhyman@mail.sdsu.edu (Linda Hyman)
Subject: Re: Free email

>I don't think that there is any question that email is valuable and
>empowering. The question, as I see it, is how to best use a very limited
>resource. If our library had, say, 40% utilization of our workstation, I
>would be more receptive, personally (I don't speak for the LAPL), to
>testing the concept. With about 80% (100% on our open evenings), I just do
>not see it as appropriate extension of our mandate.

The great thing about public libraries is that they are responsive to the
needs of the community that they serve. Services that are in such high
demand that they require special policies in one library, are not even
given a second glance in others.

Linda Woods Hyman-Education First Initiative
Pacific Bell/San Diego State University
Dept. of Educational Technology
San Diego CA 92182 (619) 594-4414
e-mail: lhyman@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired