Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!psuvax1!psuvm!UOGUELPH!LIBJOHN From: LIBJOHN@UOGUELPH.BITNET (John Black) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l Subject: Re: Faculty owned CD-ROMS Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 14:40:31 GMT Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Approved-By: PACS Forum In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 26 Jan 90 08:40:04 CST from ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We have had a CD-ROM workstation available for public use (ie by any user -- faculty, staff, students, general public who may use our library ) since early 1987. In that period it has been used for CD-ROMs from the library collection (eg PC-SIG) and for those users have brought in themselves. To my knowledge it has worked fine --- in this multi-use situation. It is currently located near a 50 unit micro-computer pool which is staffed during a large percentage of our open hours, but this staff has no special responsibility or training on that workstation. I should mayabe note that we have another 7 or 8 workstations located in our subject divisions on which we have mounted "commercial" data bases --- and 60 or 70 CD-ROM OPAC workstations (our public access catalogue is CDROM based.). John Black Chief Librarian, University of Guelph LIBJOHN@VM.UOGUELPH.CA jbb@cosy.uogeulph.ca