public internet access or password

[Thomas Edelblute]

>Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:10:23 -0700
>Reply-To: cori at nmsua.nmsu.edu
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>From: "Corinne Caputo" <cori at nmsua.nmsu.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: public internet access or password 
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>
>Our Internet access for anyone presently is password protected so 
>that one must be a student/staff  with an email account to access it. 
>Other libraries that I worked for allowed the public to use the 
>Internet without password and was not limited to the campus only.
>
>We are presently gathering information to justify an open account for 
>public access for at least one terminal.  I would appreciate any 
>input that anyone could give relating to their policies on this 
>matter and the justifications, etc. that were/are used for it.  
>
>Please email me on this as I don't know that the entire listserv 
>would be interested.  thanks in advance. 
>Cori Caputo
>Assistant Librarian
>NMSU at Alamogordo
>Alamogordo, NM 88311
>email:cori at nmsua.nmsu.edu
>office: 505-439-362
>http://abcc.nmsu.edu/~ccaputo
>http://abcc.nmsu.edu/library/library.html
>http://abcc.nmsu.edu/~comed/index.htm
> 
>
Our library went from open accounts to password restrictions because the
students were vandalizing the computers and we were forced to clamp down
with security restrictions.
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Thomas Edelblute
Systems Librarian
United States International University
10455 Pomerado Rd.
San Diego CA 92131-1799
phone (619) 635-4683
fax (619) 635-4689
tedelblu at usiu.edu