kiosk

A stall set up in a public place where one can obtain

information, e.g. tourist information. The information may be

provided by a human or by a computer. In the latter case, the

data may be stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via

a network using some kind of distributed information retreival

system such as Gopher or World-Wide Web.

(1998-09-07)