Online Storage

[Sharon Foster]

Kate, I don't currently, but I was working at an academic library a couple
of years ago when I saw a student lose about 5 hours of work when the
computers shutdown early. (I guess the library's clocks ran slower than the
server's system clock.) They were set up to wipe any user documents on
shutdown, and there was no recovery possible.

If I were working in a public or academic library today, I would promote
online office apps and storage--Google Docs and Zoho in particular.
Microsoft also offers an online office suite, but I haven't used it much.
Adobe has a beautiful word processor called Buzzword, and they're adding
spreadsheets and presentations, though they haven't been promoting it much
yet.

Sharon M. Foster
Technology Librarian
http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."



On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Slavinski, Kate <
slavinskik1 at owls.southernct.edu> wrote:

>  I work in an academic library and we recently added computers with a
> "thaw space."  We haven't had any problems yet with patrons forgetting to
> save information that we know of, but I was wondering if any libraries
> promote patrons to use online storage, such as Google docs or Drop Box.  If
> so, do your patrons seem to find these suggestions helpful?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Kate Slavinski
>
> MLS Student
>
> Southern Connecticut State University
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