Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs

[Chris Allison <allisoc () MUOHIO EDU>]

        It looks to me like Libraries got and FCC ruling and are
exempt.  See this link off of Educause's web site:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/techinttele/calea/CALEAandcampus.pdf


At 01:42 PM 12/21/2006, Bill Betlej wrote:
> Our Library wanted to lock it down. We do allow city residents to use the
> College library. But those patrons can't have access to the paid for
> bibliographic databases since they aren't a part of our FTE. So we created a
> couple of Kiosk stations that can access the online card catalog, but are
> blocked from all other web access. All other machines require the user to
> log on.
>
> Bill Betlej
> Mary Baldwin College
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis Kletnieks [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:16 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Public Access Library Ports (was Re: [SECURITY] Open
> access to student labs
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:05 PST, Samuel Young said:
> > We require our students and visitors to logon to our network everywhere.
> > There are a few computers in the library that allow public access, but we
> > are about to close that loop as well.
>
> Often, librarians have cows and kittens when the network people threaten
> to close that loophole (for reasons that are totally justified in their
> world view).  What methods and/or reasoning did sites use to win the
> political
> battle (or equally interesting, did the library win)?