[Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access

[Rich Boulet]

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 at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at 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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