[WEB4LIB] Updating plug-ins

[Dan Lester]

At 07:34 AM 10/5/99 -0700, Barbara Brattin wrote:
>The plug-ins need to be downloaded on each individual machine, and our WinU
>security makes this labor-intensive. How have the rest of you dealt with
>this? Do you take a stand and provide only the top ten, or do you try to
>have every one available? How do you streamline downloading so the process
>is not so labor intensive? We are running an NT network, with Windows 95 on
>the desktop and  WinU security/ menuing software on public stations.
>Thanks!

At Boise State we don't have speakers on our web stations, and don't add 
"plugins" in the usual sense.  However, we do link Acrobat, Word Viewer, 
Excel Viewer, and Powerpoint Viewer, as they are needed to support either 
remote journal articles or content put on web pages by faculty 
members.  Fortunately, we haven't really had the demand for the "latest and 
greatest" of viewers for various video formats, MP3, VR, and so 
forth.  We'd tend to resist those unless we could be shown a curricular or 
research need.

Of course students can, and do, go to computer labs to do many of the 
things we don't support in the library.

cheers

dan

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