CGI SCRIPTS

[Carol Resco]

We are a small library with a small library staff.  Our web pages our loaded on a UNIX machine which is under the jurisdiction of our IT dept.  We are able to access our web directory on the UNIX machine and make any changes we want to the look of the site. However, we have recently had some conflict with the IT dept over the use of forms.  We want to put up some forms for interlibrary loan requests, new book suggestions, reserve books, etc. but do not have the expertise for cgi scripts.  I think that we could probably download some ready made scripts but the IT dept. will not give us access to the cgi-bin directory. 

My questions to those of you who probably know much more are : Do we need to get access to the cgi bin?  Could I load cgi scripts into my current web directory?  Should we really learn some programming before we attempt to create forms?  

Thanks for your assistance!
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Carol S. Resco				
Director of Library Services			
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology	
P.O. Box 91000				
Portland, OR 97291-1000
(503) 690-1060
(503) 690-1029 FAX
resco at admin.ogi.edu
http://www.ogi.edu/library
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