[WEB4LIB] Allowing Downloads

[Wagner, Kurt]

We have various profiles set up on our NT applications servers such that our
public lab workstations cannot save to the hard drives. This pretty much
stops folks from downloading. If they care to save to a floppy disk, they
are welcome to.
Kurt
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Kurt W. Wagner- Library Information Systems
Sarah Byrd Askew Library - William Paterson University
Wayne NJ USA 07506 973-720-2285
http://www.wpunj.edu/library
mailto:wagnerk at wpunj.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tom Ryan [SMTP:tryan at server.silo.lib.ia.us]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:23 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Allowing Downloads
> 
> We are constantly having problems with patrons downloading files from the
> internet to the public terminals.
> 
> We currently do not have a policy against downloads, and would like to
> know what other librarys do about downloads.
> 
> I would like as many responses as I can get.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom Ryan
> Computer Systems Tech.
> Council Bluffs Public Library
> 
> 
> 
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