The question has arisen among academic librarians attending continuing
education/summer courses and conferences at other sites as to how they may
keep in touch with home base electronically if they 1) lack an account with
a commercial service and their home base offers no 800 number and also if
they 2) lack a portable machine with a modem.
 
Are there any evolving conventions at various institutions for dealing with
this situation?  Is the situation different at every spot in the universe?
What does your institution do when wandering scholars - and librarians -
show up, begging?
 
My sense is that this is an area currently full of potholes and badly in
need of some general understandings.
 
Kathryn Wright
Indiana State University
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