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From: "Jenny Moran" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: food & drink in record office searchrooms
> After we're all long gone and everything is examined on screens or are
> all electronic records that have never been anything else searchroom
> users will be welcome to bring in their cappuccinos and mars bars (I'm
> sure they will still exist!) if they want to ... I think this is an
> important question that we should be asking about all our rules and
> procedures. Seems to me there's still a clear need to keep this
> particular rule but it doesn't hurt to think them through and make sure
> we can explain them to others satisfactorily.
When we're all long gone and everything can be "examined on screens" (which
many overseas researchers are seemingly already beginning to expect), will
there still be any need for searchrooms?
Apart from that (and possibly about the Mars bars), I totally agreed with
every word in this posting.
Aidan Jones.
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