Web databases and catalog printing

[Stacy Pober]

From: jhammer at accdvm.accd.edu To:
>As a part of this, we  would like to be able to offer our patrons 
>the ability  to print, for a  fee, the data from the web databases.  Also, 
>we would like to be  able to enable them to print the catalog citations 
>on  local printers,  which would be free. Of course, the two would be 
>mutually  exclusive. There would be free printing of catalog citations 
>and  fee-based printing of web databases information.

I suppose this solution is a little more low-tech than you were hoping for, but 
what we did is put the free printers on computers whose browsers were set up so 
that they could only access selected websites such as our catalog and some 
of the non-full-text journal databases we purchase.   The browsers that used 
the pay printer had no restrictions.

We were locking some of the browsers into the library databases in any case, 
since we had found it was otherwise difficult for students to get an open 
workstation when they needed to look up a book or use the online journal 
indexes.   We used the 'false proxy' setup that has been posted to the 
list several times before.   

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Stacy Pober                   mailto: spober at manhattan.edu
Information Alchemist         http://www.manhattan.edu/library/
Manhattan College Libraries   Voice: 718-862-7166
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