[Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access

[Daniel Grobani]

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 at 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 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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