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From: davidsen@umich.edu (Susanna L. Davidsen)
Subject: Update to Gore bypasses PL's Yfrom original author"
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:27:47 +0000
This is a follow-up to a posting I made last Friday regarding the
administration's plans to put government information kiosks in Post
Offices.
Since Friday I have been in contact with the manager of the post office
kiosk project who was able to clarify some issues about the program. Here
is what I found out.
The kiosks are not limited to post offices. The post office, because it
raises its own revenue, was the first entity to use funding for the
project. They will pay for the Internet connections to post offices through
their own budget funds. There is a group working on a plan of where to put
these kiosks and public libraries are included on the list (as are grocery
stores and malls). They are especially interested in libraries as places
where there will be handicapped access to the kiosk.
Information will be presented in ways that will allow users to either go
directly to the agency they want to or get information arranged in subject
areas that will address questions like "I'm about to retire, what do I need
to do?" or "I just lost my job, now what?".
Mosaic is not necessarily the client that will be used for these kiosks.
The technology will be TCP/IP based and use the client/server model. The
post office sites will not allow the user to surf the Internet.
Funding for other kiosk sites' Internet connections will likely be a
combination of public and private funds.
State and local governments will be asked to participate so that citizens
can get information at all levels of government. This will be a distributed
model with each entity maintaining their own servers and information. There
will likely be an entrance fee for the entities to participate.
A report with the working title, The Kiosk Network : an Electronic Gateway
to Government Service will be issued sometime in November. I will post the
acquisition information as soon as it is available.
Apparently in their hurry to announce the Whitehouse WWW server (there is
an election coming up!), the Vice President's Office did not give the big
picture view of what was going on. At least they (and the post office!) now
know how much librarians and the public care about our nation's
communities. And judging from the hundreds of personal messages I've
received, 98% of you agree!
I still have personal reservations about putting something as complicated
as government information into places that do not have the staff to help
with the system or with questions that will arise from the users regarding
the information that is or, more importantly, isn't found. I do, however
support any effort to make government information more widely available.
PLACE STANDARD DISCLAIMER HERE!
Sue Davidsen
Technology Librarian & Operations Manager
MLink
The University of Michigan Library
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