zip drive

[Elisabeth Roche]

I wonder if you can take time to tell me about the problem with zip drives?

Are there problems involved here beyond the fact that someone was doing
something they shouldn't have been to library property? (I can imagine this
scenario and it makes me sort of chuckle at how it must have been for all
parties involved! That was one confident computer user:)))

I hadn't thought about using them on the general access library computers
(maybe one station?) It occurrs to me that it might be a good idea.

A zip drive was donated to a class I took last semester and we could take it
out of the cupboard, hook it up to one of the lab computers and copy needed
files onto personal zip disks. It was very convenient.

They cost about $500 and coming down, maybe the cost wouldn't be justified
for the amount of use? Maybe more suitable for special libraries or research
libraries?
Maybe it's already being done in places?

Any comments on the suitability of providing this as an aid to patrons? 


Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com
serendipity RULES!

> 11:25 PM 6/17/96 -0700, Caroline Habluetzel wrote:

>enough to tinker at someones machine. We catched a patron installing a 
>zip-drive on one of our public computers...
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