[WEB4LIB] Re: Legit Internet Use

[Scott Furciniti]

We use the following approach at Roswell Public
Library.

We have 12 Public Internet/Office Application machines
that are controlled by EnvisionWare's PC Reservation. 
Users are allowed 1 hour once per day on these
machines. If no one is in the que when their session
ends they get additional 5-minute increments until
someone else joins the que. They have full MS Office,
Internet access, games, chat, e-mail, porno, whatever.
 On the desktops of these machines we have links to
our subscribed databases.  So, we are least bringing
them to the users attention in that manner.

We have another 12 machines that serve as
OPAC/Database machines.  The only application on these
machines is Internet Explorer in kiosk mode.  The home
page is for these machines is
http://www.roswellpubliclibrary.org/OPAC.htm; the menu
on this page gives access to our WebCat and to our
subscribed databases and one or two library selected
sites. We use IE's built in phony proxy trick to keep
folks from browsing too far outside of these
databases. These machines are not controlled by PC
Reservation software.  Users can utilize them to their
heart's content.

The first set of machines is by far the most popular
with our patrons.  There are ALWAYS available machines
in the second set.

Best regards,
Scott Furciniti
Systems Administrator
Roswell Public Library
301 N. Pennsylvania Ave.
Roswell, NM  88201
(505)622-3400
sfurciniti at yahoo.com
http://www.roswellpubliclibrary.org


--- Tom Edelblute <thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us> wrote:
> If we are going to be paying money for the
> subscirption databases, we
> want them to be available without having to wait for
> an Internet
> computer.  After all, 90% of our Internet useage is
> for e-mail and chat
> rooms.
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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
> 
> Michael Sauers wrote:
> > 
> > > That way we ensure that something will be
> available for
> > > research without having to kick someone off an
> Internet
> > > computer.
> > 
> > Ahh, the 'R' word. Are you implying that there are
> no 'research' uses for
> > the Internet or even that there are no
> 'non-research' purposes for your
> > databases? And, just what should be considered
> 'research' anyway? You're
> > library has Danielle Steele books, right? What are
> the research purposes of
> > those? What right does a librarian have to decide
> what is 'research' and
> > what is not? (Assuming we have the right to know
> what their doing or why
> > they're doing it in the first place.)
> > 
> > (Let the fun begin... ;-)
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Michael Sauers, Librarian, Trainer & Author
> > Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
> > Aurora, CO :: 303-751-6277 x124 :: msauers at bcr.org
> > http://www.bcr.org/~msauers
> > a:visited {display: none}
> > 
> > "Make what your heart instructs, and don't let
> > anyone persuade you to compromise with your own
> > truth."  --Clive Barker
> >                        _
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> >              & vCards / \ http://arc.pasp.de/
> > --------------------------------------------------
> 


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