[Web4lib] CALEA

[Thomas, Susan Elaine]

There seems to be small discussions beginning about the impact of CALEA
for academic libraries.  We are currently wrestling with this issue with
regards to providing public access to our library computers.  The campus
IT department wants us to have user accounts that community users can
check out but we have discovered that these also permit access to
databases off-campus so this practice will not work. It seems that CALEA
is going to compound this issue of providing access to community folks,
alumni, high school students, etc.  Has anyone else wrestled with
similar issues and if so what was the workable solution?

Susan E. Thomas
Head of Collection Development
Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
(574) 520-5500
suethoma at iusb.edu

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To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: 8/29/06 9:00 PM
Subject: [Web4lib] web hosting service

> Does anybody know of a good inexpensive web hosting service for an 
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> Raumin Dehghan
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