[WEB4LIB] Email and humoungous hard drive

[Richard Payette]

>
> A year and a half ago when we replaced all of our dumb terminals with PC's
> I had the brilliant idea of the humungous hard drive.  We would load all of
> our CD's on it and everyone would be happy.  It didn't work out that way.
>  Most of the CD-ROM's could not be loaded on a hard drive, and the ones we
> could load slowed everything to a crawl.  We went the CD tower route and
> are in the process of loading Discport to the management.  Some of our
> genealogy CD-ROM's could not be loaded in the tower -- they insisted on
> being used on a PC only.  What a pain!  After a year and a half, we are
> seeing use of CD-ROM's dropping and use of online subscriptions increasing.
>  It's much easier.

Another program that creates and manages virtual CD drives on a hard drive is
CD Copier Pro from IMSI http://www.imsisoft.com/cdcopierpro/

Pricing is reasonable -- $39.95 per machine.   Several libraries in my
consortium use CD Copier Pro successfully. Most CD's, including multimedia
titles, work well with it.

--
Richard Payette
Technical Support Specialist / Cooperating Libraries Automated Network
600 Sandy Lane / Warwick, RI 02886 / Phone: 401-738-2200/X302
rickpe at seq.clan.lib.ri.us
http://www.clan.lib.ri.us