Library of Congress Plan for User Fees Stirs Protests From: The Washington Post | Date: February 25, 1993| Author: | Copyright 1993 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For the first time in its 193-year history, the Library of Congress is proposing to charge the general public for a broad array of information services - a plan that has raised alarms in the publishing industry and among library organizations.

The library, the largest in the world, has asked Congress to allow it to charge users for such new high-technology services as computer access to the contents of its 100 million-item collection and for searches of commercial electronic databases.

It also wants to charge for translation services, document delivery and for special events and programs held ...

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