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Lori Keenan (lkeenan@norby.latah.lib.id.us)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:17:04 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks for your comments, Gens. Funny that you should mention it ... the
Library has recently made its desires with regard to a Community Internet
Room known to the Moscow City Council, and we think that the 1912 Whitworth
Building would make a great place for such a facility. The Whitworth Review
Committee is recommending to the City that the Whitworth would make a great
Community Center for the City of Moscow. And a Community Internet Access
Room (Cafe?) would be ideal. Lori Keenan
>
>>Whilst singing praises of the public libraries, and also experiencing angst
>>about potential funding cuts, I am also dreaming of the public libraries
>>and the public school libraries emerging in the coming few years as The
>>Community Cyber-Access Places. I have this vision of people actually
>>doing this cyber-thing together, rather than alone. Lots of good reasons
>>to hope for this; an opportunity for community-building chitchat, help in
>>figuring out the technology, and the opportunities to work together to make
>>"local sense" of the "worlds of information" available "out there". Lots
>>of good prototypes to look at too, especially in Scandanavia, where
>>community center access to information technologies has been the dominant
>>model in rural areas.
>>
>>But you obviously can't work towards this vision if funding dries up, huh.
>>
>>Gens Johnson
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Lori Keenan
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Moscow, ID 83843
tel: (208)882-3923
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