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Susan,
We are a medium-sized library in a suburb of 38,000 north of Chicago.
Because of the quirky political situation in Illinois, we serve a number
of school districts. One of them is the major elementary school district
(Glenview Consolidated District 34), and we have been connected to them
electronically for about two years. In the past six months, we have
improved this connection from a uucp telephone link to a 4MB WAN using
the village's institutional CATV network (provided by TCI). We share
a connection to the Internet with Dist. 34 through this WAN.
Our librarians have easy e-mail communications with the librarians and
faculty at Dist. 34 and vice versa. We can also access their catalogs
and they can access ours (so can you, by the way, since they are on
the Internet). We have had some discussions with the school
administration about sharing facilities, but we do not as yet have any
concrete plans to do that.
It has been a great relationship, beneficial for all. The staff at 34,
particularly the administrative computer services guy, John Mundt, have
been very helpful. The bottom line is that we are better able to
respond to the needs of 34's students, and can draw on the district's
expertise to help us plan.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
John Blegen, Director, Glenview Public Library, Glenview, IL.
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 15:40:41 -0500 (EST)
To: veccia@well.sf.ca.us
Subject: School-library cooperation
Hi. I'm Children's Librarian at Bedford Public Library in Bedford,
Mass. We have a terminal for our online catalog (28 member "Minuteman
Library Network") in the high school, which is right next door. The
kids in the school library have access to it during school hours. After
school and on weekends the port is used by us. It's neat to share it.
Our busy times are usually after school's out anyhow so we can spare
a port for them...
We also dug a trench and physically ran a cable to them for a shared
CD ROB system. It's new right now - first software we share is the
SIRS social issues resources, but we'll be buying Bartlett's and
Granger's Poetry Index and good stuff like that there soon. (OOps -
CD ROM system I mean).
If you have questions I can put you in touch with our director, who
knows the ins and outs of it all. Nice to meet you - yer my first
reply to a PUBYAC message and I'm excited! Regards,
Sharon McDonald
SMcDonald@mln.lib.ma.us
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