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I'm inclined to agree with your Board Chairman. Public libraries exist to serve the recreational needs of the community as well as the informational needs. Would you tell someone that they have to stop reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" and return it immediately because a student wants to read it for a report? Probably not. It might be better just to bar playing games and chatting altogether. I noticed that you said "kids who are playing games or chatting." Would you ask an adult to leave the computer if they were playing games or chatting? Typically it is the adults who play games on our computers, and a few like to chat, but that might not be the same in your community. I would caution you that many of the game and chat sites download programs onto your hard drive. This can be very problematic, causing poor computer performance and slowing down the Internet access. We prohibit downloading anything to our hard drives, and we have blocked the game and chat sites that require you to download anything. And that is my two cents worth :) Deanna Frazee Director of Library Services 205 E. Church Ave. Killeen, TX 76541 (254) 501-8994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Nellie Pederson City Library [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Internet Usage This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- Do other libraries take kids who are playing games or chatting off the computer for someone who has home work to do, we have been doing this feeling that homework is more important but our Board Chairman thinks we should let each child have his hour no matter how many people are waiting to do homework. Please comment ASAP. Thank you Judith Anne Merritt Nellie Pederson Civic Library Clifton, TX 76634 Tel.-254-675-6495 Fax.-254-675-3175 --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm
