[Web4lib] Plug-ins

[Marc W. Davis]

   We do pretty much the same as Terry (below) with browser plugins,  
but are running into increasing issues with software included in  
textbooks --  students expect to be able to install it on Library  
computers (particularly if they don't have a machine of their own,  
since assignments are based on the software).  Particularly the  
Business folks.  Publishers are not receptive to providing the  
software to labs, although I have to admit Prentice-Hall has been  
really good about PHStat2 (an excel plugin) that the business school  
seems to be quite enamored of.  However, the numbers just keep climbing.

   Add on to that U3 drives . . . and it just gets to be more fun every day!

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Marc W. Davis
Systems Administration Associate
Cowles Library
Drake University
(515) 271- 1934Quoting Hopkins County - Madisonville Public Library  
<library at vci.net>:

> I keep all of the computers with Java, Shockwave, Flash, WMP11, Adobe
> Acrobat 8, and generally go around every 3-4 months & do a major update
> session on them if they need it. They are generally all we ever get asked
> about.
>
> Terry Caudle
> Hopkins County - Madisonville Public Library
> library at vci.net
> www.publiclibrary.org
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> What do you do about requests to add plug-ins to your web browsers?
> We've got common ones installed, but there are many more out there that
> we don't know about until we're asked about it. We just had a request to
> add one so a college student could take a math test.  Our security setup
> doesn't allow users to download or install executables so any time one
> needs adding the staff calls me. After researching it I added it, but
> I'm wondering how others deal with this issue. Do you add on a case by
> case basis, deny all requests for anything other than standard plug-ins,
> etc?
>
> Gair
> __________
>
> Gair Helfrich, MLS
> Supervising Librarian
> Information & Technical Services Manager
> Atlantic County Library
> 40 Farragut Avenue
> Mays Landing, NJ 08330
>
> 609-625-2776 ext. 6327  Fax: 609-625-8143
> ghelfrich at aclsys.org
>
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