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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:38:24 -0400
From: Joyce Tracy <jat@MWA.ORG>
Subject: Re: Technical Info. Center or Library? (Susan Smith)

Worcester State College and Quinsigimond Community College in our area
call their libraries Learning Resource Centers or LRCs. The rest of the
college, medical and business libraries are called just that: libraries.
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On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Susan Smith wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Smith, Susan D. (WTC)" <smiths@WDNI.COM>
> Subject: technical info. center or library?
>
> What's in a name?
>
> We here at the (currently named) "Technical Information Center" at
> Weyerhaeuser are contemplating changing our name to "Technical Library."
>
> We want to do this largely because our customers have a hard time finding us
> in the various company directories, both in print and online.  It's
> especially difficult for them to locate us in the now enormously large
> company e-mail directory.  We also want to do this because, as all
> librarians know,  libraries aren't just for books any more.
>
> Our boss's boss doesn't like this idea. He said he thought it was okay from
> a customer point of view, but that it points us backward instead of toward
> the future, because the term, "library...makes everyone think about a
> building with a collection of books rather than an information resource."
>
> So we're taking a little survey of the lists that we're on to see what you
> call your library or information center or information resource and any
> comments you have on this "what's in a name"  issue.
>
> You can respond to me directly or to the list .  Thanks in advance for your
> time to do so.
> Several of us are posting this message to various lists, so sorry if you've
> received duplicates.
>
> Susan Smith
> Weyerhaeuser Technology Center
> Technical Information Center
> WTC-TIC
> Tacoma, WA 98477
> smiths@wdni.com
> (206)924-6262
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: rachel <5704P%NAVPGS.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Technical Info. Center or Library? (Susan Smith)

how about technical information center and library? it's got
something for everyone. just a thought.

cheers,

   _/    _/   _/_/_/    _/_/_/        Rachel Hollis, Serials Librarian
  _/_/  _/   _/   _/  _/_/            Naval Postgraduate School
 _/  _/_/   _/_/_/       _/           Monterey California
_/    _/   _/       _/_/_/            5704p@vm1.cc.nps.navy.mil

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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:12:52 -0500
From: Paula Lynch <lynch1@JEFLIN.TJU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Technical Info. Center or Library? (Susan Smith)

HI!

Why not leave "Technical Information Center" as the name, but
cross-reference the phone numbers and email address, etc. under the entry
"Technical Library" in the phone/email directories as well?  Or better,
just enter one cross-reference from "Technical Library" to "Tech. Info.
Center."  This is a solution used by an Information Center I've worked with
in the past.

Paula

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