RES: [WEB4LIB] laptop check out program

[Michelangelo M M Viana]

Lixia,

1. How many laptops do you have for this program?
- 38

How often do you upgrade the hardware?
- Since 2008, Office was not upgraded (still is 2007). Only IE was (7>8>9).

Did you get ride of some old laptops?
- Only when they need to be discarded (when are broken). In this case, they are replaced.

2. What's security method you are using?
- Our IT team opened the notebooks and inserted electromagnetic strips inside them, the same used for books (3M brand) - below the keyboard, so the EM gates buzz when it pass through it.
They are also loaned to the user through the Aleph500 (barcode / and password) and users also sign a commitment form, so even when he/she want to "steal", we know who has checked out the notebook.

Regards,
Michelangelo

Michelangelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Support and Development
Central Library Systems Coordinator. Librarian CRB-10/1306
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS
Ir.  Jose Otao Central Library | Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
+55(51) 3320.3544 r. 4371 | mviana at pucrs.br | http://www.pucrs.br/biblioteca

De: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] Em nome de Lixia Zhao
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 23 de julho de 2012 13:44
Para: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Assunto: Re: [WEB4LIB] laptop check out program

Thank you all for responses. I got a lot of positive feedback and helpful tips on the laptop checkout program.
I have more questions.
1. How many laptops do you have for this program? How often do you upgrade the hardware? Did you get ride of some old laptops?

2. What's security method you are using?

Thank you very much.

Lixia

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Lixia Zhao <lxzhao at ualr.edu<mailto:lxzhao at ualr.edu>> wrote:

We are investigating a laptop checkout program for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Ottenheimer Library.  Has anyone instituted such a program and subsequently stopped the program?






 How did you assess the success or failure of the program?  Do you have a hints and/or pitfalls to watch our for in implementing this type of program?

Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Thank you!


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Lixia Zhao
Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian
Ottenheimer Library,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
501-569-3454<tel:501-569-3454>
lxzhao at ualr.edu<mailto:lzhao at ualr.edu>
http://library.ualr.edu





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