I believe it takes more than just technology itself to work effectively
for users.  Librarians promotion efforts and technical support kick in
at this time.  The idea is nice.  But it takes way more than that for users
to like it.
 
Peter He
 
At 08:23 AM 3/1/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I recently visited such a "resource center" at a regional facility
>used by several state colleges for remote courses. It was in
>Enid, Oklahoma. It had seven terminals and no books. The brochures
>listed all the CD sources available. There were no students using
>it when I was there. I asked some students in the hall if they
>used it. All said "no"; they used the library of Phillips
>University several blocks away.
>
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IBM
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