While I taught at Whitman College for two years, the Walla Walla
area adopted the library idea you have just described, so I was
issued a card at the public library that gave me access to and
circulation privileges for Whitman College, Walla Walla Public
Library, Walla Walla Community College, and the Washington State
Penitentiary Library. It was magnificent!
Susan
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, John Teeter wrote:
> 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
>