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Offrir Internet en bibliotheque publique. By Gaelle Enjalbert. Paris: Electre, 2002. 212 pp. [euro]38 (paper). ISBN 2-7654-0844-0.
When the Internet's "true history" comes to be written, libraries will wish they knew how foreigners had learned it.
Any technique is culture-bound at its origins. Protests always are that a new technology is "value-free." Yet we all encountered exceptions once the public Internet was launched in 1992-93. We grappled with great differences in receptivity to Internet charms, between users of different ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, occupations, and education levels.
The Internet quickly outpaced our local skepticisms. Within very few years it was international,…