vision2020@moscow.com: Re: "free" libraries

Re: "free" libraries

John Teeter (johnt@bluefish.fsr.com)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:56:34 -0700

the alternative (a heavy use-fee) isn't right either. I'd prefer public
access-as-needed for library services, not unlike it is now, although there
does seem to be a moderaly heavy beurocratic (sp?) burden centered around
boise.

It would be nice to have the university library systems more integrated into
the community ones. For example, if all the community had cards at the
uofi library, and the county lib staff were housed in the same facilities, then
there would be a pretty reasonable cost savings? Seems like, as they are
both state institutions, there would be ways to do it. As well, all of the
school districts also have libraries and librarians. Couldn't those as well
be integrated? It would be more of a matrix information system rather than
a vertically integrated one.....

johnt

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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Kitterman <matt@elder.csrv.uidaho.edu> writes:

> On 16 Oct 96 at 8:47, Steve Cooke wrote: Laird (?) wrote:

>> > Egad! Knowledge is NOT "free" at the library... In 1995
>> Idaho > property taxpayers happily paid $5,787,799.00 for
>> so-called "free" > knowledge.

> Egad! indeed! That's almost $6 per person--just over a penny
> and a half a day each!

> (That's a pretty good bargain in my book--quit yer moanin'.)

> matt 46.722438 N -117.005599 W


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