[WEB4LIB] Need help

[Julia Schult]

Two such products are WinGuardian and Historian.  Both work pretty well
for this kind of thing; can capture keystrokes and windows opening and
closing as well as web pages.  Better make sure your user policies are
rock solid, though.

I know there are others out there.  I gave a paper in May at NOM using
some results from WinGuardian, and some people from Arizona gave a
similar paper (at a different session) that used a product I had never
heard of.

Stephanie's solution sounds like it might be faster and cheaper, though.

Steve Scarbrough wrote:

> One of my librarians is having problems with a patron that is
> continually abusing the internet usage policy of the library.
> She tried using the Netscape & Explorer history logs to gather
> evidence, but they are much to weak.
>
> I ran across a piece of software called Surf Spy that keeps a record
> of the time and URL that the user goes to.
>
> Please lets not even go into the filtering debate. We don't filter,
> but we do try control some of the serious abusers.
>
> Has anyone used something better.
>
> Steve Scarbrough
> Computer Tech. & Network Admin.
> Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System
> steves at mwfls.org

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---Julia E. Schult
Access/Electronic Services Librarian
Elmira College
Jschult at elmira.edu