[WEB4LIB] CD-Writable question

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

This came up once before and I think the feeling was that it was inevitable.
One lingering concern I have is about security.  If we make CD-RW drives
available, don't we need to make the C drive accessible to patrons too?
Making a CD directly off the Internet or a network drive is sure to result
in underruns.  I'd like to set up public access computers that have a
portion of the C drive available to patrons but the guts of the system
completely off limits.  Can this be done with 2000?  WinSelect?

-Lori Ayre

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Tom Edelblute
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 8:42 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] CD-Writable question


I was just asked a very interesting question by managment and I wanted
to get your input on this.

Management sees the public doing quite a bit of downloading to floppy
disk (our hard-drives are blocked by System Policy Editor) and they see
the public doing more downloads in the future with video and audio
files.  Should the library be investing in CD-RW drives so the public
can save files to CD instead of floppy?
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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us