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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:23:27 EST
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- From: "Barry R. Rosen | 508.467.5953 DTN:297" <rosen@mazel.mro4.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: computer fees
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- Gary,
-
- You do raise some interesting thoughts. I do not think that one can
- compare the way libraries are funded at Canadian univerities to the
- way they are generally in the United States. Education in Canada is
- government funded and students (or a student's family) "pay" for it
- based on things like the ability to pay (income). The province
- (taxpayers) do pay for the library rather than the student but this is
- the national model. It gets somewhat similar with the state college
- and state university systems in the United States but that is not the
- majority of higher education.
-
- As for charging students directly for libraries, I wonder how many of
- the libraries would be able to survive. As you stated, many libraries
- are somewhat specialized and may incur higher expenses for materials
- than some others. Would these need to charge higher fees? Would the
- humanities library have a different fee schedule than the science or
- medical library? I would be concerned that many libraries might not
- reach the critical mass of users to sustain them if they were soley
- fee based services. [Of course, one could make the fees mandatory
- like a laboratory fee.]
-
- I remember being *strongly* encouraged to use the library. This was
- not to avoid purchasing books. Adding fees, in my experience, does
- not generally encourage people to use the fee based facility.
-
- Barry
- rosen@mazel.mro4.dec.com
-