Self-serve prepaid printing for library guests? (ps Google)

[Richard Wiggins]

Greetings from Las Vegas, where my wife is attending an OCLC-sponsored
training event.  Just now I discovered the airy and lovely Information
Commons at UNLV, which it turns out is very guest-friendly:

-- Just sign up at the desk and they'll give you guest Internet access.

-- Just go to an automated machine and you can get a card that gives
printing rights at 2 pennies a page.  Print at will, and go to a print
station, plug your card in, click to print your jobs.  Works great.

-- And friendly folks are there to help in both processes.

Here's my question: how many university libraries make it so easy for random
guests to do these things?  (A staff member told me that public access to
surfing and printing is a commonly-used service.)

What tools do you use to make it happen?

/rich (off to the Star Trek Experience)

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Richard Wiggins
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