[Publib] RE: Clients/Patrons/Customers

[Babel, Elisa (DCPL)]

This topic came up on another listserv about a month or so ago.

 

One poster wrote that to him, the meaning of the words customers and
members involved money and fees. He preferred the word patron since no
money was involved.

 

Elisa

 

Elisa Babel, MLS

Adult Librarian

Popular Library Division

Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library

901 G St., NW

Washington, DC 20001

"To the historian, libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."~ Barbara
Tuchman

 

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