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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The world of computers is coming to the library in a big way, Chairman William Young told the Library Board at last week’s meeting.
He said that the library now has access to the Internet through the public schools at no cost to the library. He said that he and Librarian Nicki Lynch recommended that for the time being access be limited to the library staff using it for library and educational purposes.
“There are incredible amounts of information on it, but it can also be a plaything,” he said. “It could tie up our one modem all day long if we made it available to the general public.”
He said he had checked with the state library, and the Internet is supposed to be available to all main libraries through the state library by Christmas. He said, when and if that happens, the library can then “unplug” from the school.
The board approved the policy of restricting use to the library staff for library and educational purposes.
Dr. Young said Delphi Computer Service is also offering free use of the Internet on a trial basis during off hours, but the board members decided not to take advantage of that as long as the library has other access. They did note that Delphi’s offer might benefit any member of the general public with a computer and modem.
The library’s own public access catalog has mostly been installed, Mrs. Lynch reported, and the staff is being trained on its use. “This is Step One,” she said. “Step Two will be circulation.”
She also reported that the library can use a new CD ROM disk in the high school library that contains all the articles published for three years in 100 magazines. “We are being reciprocal,” she said. “Students have been calling during the day, and we fax things back and forth.”
She reported that receipts for expenses for the grant to put .in the public access catalog had been sent into the state library, and the funds to reimburse the county should be coming back soon. She said the library received a refund of $928 because there were fewer titles in the
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