A Call for Tiered Access to Google Book Search Terminals

Mac Slocum
November 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Listen

Peter Brantley says proposed public access (pdf) to Google Book Search library terminals is too restrictive, particularly in areas serving underprivileged populations:

This is not an economic matter; it is a social foundation. A library is a refuge; you can provide solace in that refuge, and a promise for a different and better kind of future. It is morally incumbent upon you to do so.

I propose that public terminals be accessible on a tiered basis. If a certain percentage of a public library's served population falls beneath the poverty level or a similar metric, the number of public access terminals is commensurately increased.

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bowerbird said:
November 5, 2008 4:33 AM

there's 100 things wrong in this agreement...

and you pick 1, and act like that's all there is?

are you _trying_ to distract our attention this way?

-bowerbird

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