[WEB4LIB] Re: [Web4Lib] RE: Floppy Disks

[Phillip B. Whitford]

Good point Jacque. We disable booting from CD-ROMs as well.  I pretty
much agree with everything Andrew Mutch said in his posting as well. We
don't allow patrons to install their own software either. In our library
I believe it increases the risk to the library network to an
unacceptable level. 

I'm not knocking other libraries either. Just reporting what we are
doing in our environment.

Phillip B. Whitford
Manager of Information Systems
Braswell Memorial Library
727 N. Grace St
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
252-442-1951
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Braswell Library.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Jacque King
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: [Web4Lib] RE: Floppy Disks


One thing not mentioned yet is that if you are going to enable floppy
drives for your patrons, you should make sure that they can not boot
from a floppy (disable this in your BIOS).

Jacque King
Library Technical Support Specialist
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street
Fort Collins, CO  80524
(970) 221-6716
king at julip.fcgov.com