[WEB4LIB] Open Slather Internet

[Brian Williams]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 rtoohey at slv.vic.gov.au wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Does any library have "open slather" access to the Internet, databases,
> catalogues on all PCs?

"Open slather"? Sounds worse than I thought. We have some machines set to
only go to the services we feel are most important, but most of them are
available for all internet access.


> 
> Does any library ration use by time allowed rather than by function
> (Internet, catalogues etc)?
> 

We are headed in that direction. We're testing Pharos to provide a 60
minute a day time limit to the patrons that would be implemented on all
the internet pc's, at least. It's taken us a long time working with them
to get about half way thete, but I think it is going to work.

Note that Ameritech is going to come out with a product to help manage
access to pc's also in the near future.

We wanted a package that would tie back to our patron database in real
time for authentication, and the two above will do that.


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