[WEB4LIB] Re: Internet Plugins

[Skip Booth]

In addition I'd recommend Mr Sid, a tif viewer, Real Media's player, a Doc
or TXT Viewer.

Skip Booth
Information Systems Manager
Anne Arundel County Public Library
5 Harry S Truman Parkway
Annapolis, Maryland 21401


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew I. Mutch [mailto:amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:57 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Internet Plugins


Brad,

I just rolled out some PCs in our Kids Internet area and I installed:

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5
Flash Player 6
Shockwave Player 8.5.1
Windows Media Player 7.1
QuickTime 6

This seems to have covered the majority of the needs of our
users. We upgraded to Windows 2000 and run Public Web Browser over IE 6 so
we don't allow users to download additional plugins. We don't use these
PCs for database access but if you are using these for accessing some of
the popular online database products, you may need additional plugins for
those as well.

Good luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI






On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, SARGEANT Brad wrote:

> I am going to be upgrading to W2000 and reconfiguring my Public Internet
> computers in the next month or so. Does anyone out there has a good list
of
> plugins, helper apps, chat apps, etc. to install so that patrons don't
have
> to
> constantly be installing stuff on the machines? We run DeepFreeze, so
> anything
> that gets installed doesn't survive a reboot. I see people constantly
> downloading and installing God knows what. I would like to have all or
most
> preinstalled to avoid them having to reinstall constantly.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated,
>
>
>
> Brad Sargeant
> Springfield Public Library
> Springfield, OR
> 541-726-2236
>
>