vision2020@moscow.com: (Fwd) Re: "free" libraries

(Fwd) Re: "free" libraries

Steve Cooke (scooke@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu)
Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:48:32 PST8PDT

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:02:47 GMT
From: johnt@bluefish.fsr.com (John Teeter)
To: scooke@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu
Subject: Re: "free" libraries

nope

johnt

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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Cooke <scooke@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu> writes:

> John, Do you mind if I share this w/ the library and onepercent
> llist servers? Steve Cooke
>> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:56:34 -0700 From:
>> johnt@bluefish.fsr.com (John Teeter) To:
>> matt@elder.csrv.uidaho.edu Cc: vision2020@uidaho.edu Subject:
>> Re: "free" libraries

>> 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
>>
>> ================================================================
>> >>>>> "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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> University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843
> http://www.uidaho.edu/~scooke/onepercent 208-885-7170 (phone)
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University of Idaho
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