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Good afternoon, Our library is in the process of selecting our parameters/preferences for our catalog. We are wondering if anyone has any great links to public domain icon collections-- Thanks, Barbara Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
Good afternoon, We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course. Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet? Thanks, Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
2009/11/7 Barbara Keef <bkeef@windham.lib.me.us>:
Good afternoon,
We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course.
Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet?
The Amazon content is pulled into the browser, not into Koha itself. (All sorts of legal and practical reasons for this). But you could configure your firewall for all the OPAC machines (I assume you are just talking about the OPAC machines physically in the library, not people accessing the OPAC from home) to restrict access to just the amazon servers. So they would only have access to a tiny part of the internet. Hope this helps Chris
You could use the old fake proxy trick where you set the proxy to be the local machine and add exceptions for Koha and Amazon. Just a thought On Nov 6, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:
2009/11/7 Barbara Keef <bkeef@windham.lib.me.us>:
Good afternoon,
We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course.
Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet?
The Amazon content is pulled into the browser, not into Koha itself. (All sorts of legal and practical reasons for this). But you could configure your firewall for all the OPAC machines (I assume you are just talking about the OPAC machines physically in the library, not people accessing the OPAC from home) to restrict access to just the amazon servers. So they would only have access to a tiny part of the internet.
Hope this helps
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Barbara: We accomplished this by installing Fortres on our OPAC-only Windows machines and whitelisting the websites we wanted to make accessible. You would have to whitelist your catalog URL, as well as whatever URLs are serving Amazon content. The program also has certain desktop controls that are handy (disabling right-click options, run command, etc.) One headache we constantly run into is patrons closing the browser when they are finished, making the dedicated OPACs look unusable to the casual observer. One way to mitigate this is by having the browser open 2 tabs at start-up. When a patron goes to close the browser they have to confirm that they really want to close the 2 tabs. With that in place the browser is closed less often, but it still happens sometimes. For OPAC-only machines we are also running Deep Freeze, which restores Windows to its previous state at each restart and also erases any history left by past users. We also configured the browsers to erase browsing history at each restart. Even with this in place some patrons have expressed concern about their search history being available to subsequent users unless they restart the browser. -Rich Boulet Richard Boulet Library Director Blue Hill Public Library 207.374.5515x13 -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Barbara Keef Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:00 PM To: KOHA Subject: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access Good afternoon, We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course. Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet? Thanks, Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Hi Rich, I took care of the problem of the patron closing the browser by launching the browser from within this batch file: :loop c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore goto loop Now when a patron closes the browser, it launches again. There's still the problem of the patron killing the batch file, but that doesn't happen very often. Cheers, Daniel Grobani System Administrator John A. Graziano Memorial Library Samuel Merritt University 400 Hawthorne Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 510.869.8900 dgrobani@samuelmerritt.edu http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/library Rich Boulet wrote:
Barbara:
We accomplished this by installing Fortres on our OPAC-only Windows machines and whitelisting the websites we wanted to make accessible. You would have to whitelist your catalog URL, as well as whatever URLs are serving Amazon content. The program also has certain desktop controls that are handy (disabling right-click options, run command, etc.)
One headache we constantly run into is patrons closing the browser when they are finished, making the dedicated OPACs look unusable to the casual observer. One way to mitigate this is by having the browser open 2 tabs at start-up. When a patron goes to close the browser they have to confirm that they really want to close the 2 tabs. With that in place the browser is closed less often, but it still happens sometimes.
For OPAC-only machines we are also running Deep Freeze, which restores Windows to its previous state at each restart and also erases any history left by past users. We also configured the browsers to erase browsing history at each restart. Even with this in place some patrons have expressed concern about their search history being available to subsequent users unless they restart the browser.
-Rich Boulet
Richard Boulet Library Director Blue Hill Public Library 207.374.5515x13
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Barbara Keef Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:00 PM To: KOHA Subject: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
Good afternoon,
We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course.
Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet?
Thanks, Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
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We are setting up our KOHA preferences and we wondered if using Google Book Covers is preferred over Amazon-- a comment was made that using Amazon might suggest that the library is advocating purchasing from Amazon. Comments? Good success with Google covers? Thanks! Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Grobani" <dgrobani@samuelmerritt.edu> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
Hi Rich,
I took care of the problem of the patron closing the browser by launching the browser from within this batch file:
:loop c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore goto loop
Now when a patron closes the browser, it launches again. There's still the problem of the patron killing the batch file, but that doesn't happen very often.
Cheers,
Daniel Grobani System Administrator John A. Graziano Memorial Library Samuel Merritt University 400 Hawthorne Avenue Oakland, CA 94609
510.869.8900 dgrobani@samuelmerritt.edu http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/library
Rich Boulet wrote:
Barbara:
We accomplished this by installing Fortres on our OPAC-only Windows machines and whitelisting the websites we wanted to make accessible. You would have to whitelist your catalog URL, as well as whatever URLs are serving Amazon content. The program also has certain desktop controls that are handy (disabling right-click options, run command, etc.)
One headache we constantly run into is patrons closing the browser when they are finished, making the dedicated OPACs look unusable to the casual observer. One way to mitigate this is by having the browser open 2 tabs at start-up. When a patron goes to close the browser they have to confirm that they really want to close the 2 tabs. With that in place the browser is closed less often, but it still happens sometimes.
For OPAC-only machines we are also running Deep Freeze, which restores Windows to its previous state at each restart and also erases any history left by past users. We also configured the browsers to erase browsing history at each restart. Even with this in place some patrons have expressed concern about their search history being available to subsequent users unless they restart the browser.
-Rich Boulet
Richard Boulet Library Director Blue Hill Public Library 207.374.5515x13
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Barbara Keef Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:00 PM To: KOHA Subject: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
Good afternoon,
We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course.
Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet?
Thanks, Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
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It's really a matter of personal preference. If you use Google Books then you're advocating Google Books - while not a site to purchase books, it's still a commercial site. Most people find that Amazon has more covers, but I haven't noticed a difference personally. Nicole C. Engard On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Barbara Keef <bkeef@windham.lib.me.us> wrote:
We are setting up our KOHA preferences and we wondered if using Google Book Covers is preferred over Amazon-- a comment was made that using Amazon might suggest that the library is advocating purchasing from Amazon.
Comments? Good success with Google covers?
Thanks!
Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Grobani" <dgrobani@samuelmerritt.edu> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
Hi Rich,
I took care of the problem of the patron closing the browser by launching the browser from within this batch file:
:loop c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore goto loop
Now when a patron closes the browser, it launches again. There's still the problem of the patron killing the batch file, but that doesn't happen very often.
Cheers,
Daniel Grobani System Administrator John A. Graziano Memorial Library Samuel Merritt University 400 Hawthorne Avenue Oakland, CA 94609
510.869.8900 dgrobani@samuelmerritt.edu http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/library
Rich Boulet wrote:
Barbara:
We accomplished this by installing Fortres on our OPAC-only Windows machines and whitelisting the websites we wanted to make accessible. You would have to whitelist your catalog URL, as well as whatever URLs are serving Amazon content. The program also has certain desktop controls that are handy (disabling right-click options, run command, etc.)
One headache we constantly run into is patrons closing the browser when they are finished, making the dedicated OPACs look unusable to the casual observer. One way to mitigate this is by having the browser open 2 tabs at start-up. When a patron goes to close the browser they have to confirm that they really want to close the 2 tabs. With that in place the browser is closed less often, but it still happens sometimes.
For OPAC-only machines we are also running Deep Freeze, which restores Windows to its previous state at each restart and also erases any history left by past users. We also configured the browsers to erase browsing history at each restart. Even with this in place some patrons have expressed concern about their search history being available to subsequent users unless they restart the browser.
-Rich Boulet
Richard Boulet Library Director Blue Hill Public Library 207.374.5515x13
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Barbara Keef Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:00 PM To: KOHA Subject: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
Good afternoon,
We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use images from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through the image would be online, of course.
Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit continued access to the internet?
Thanks, Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
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It's not public domain, but the http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/bridge_icons/ Bridge Material Type Icon Set has icons already used in Koha. Barbara Keef wrote:
Good afternoon,
Our library is in the process of selecting our parameters/preferences for our catalog. We are wondering if anyone has any great links to public domain icon collections--
Thanks, Barbara Barbara L. Keef Reference & Technology Librarian Windham Public Library 217 Windham Center Rd. Windham, Maine 04062 207-892-1908
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