Public Access to CD-ROMs Redux
Karen Nordgren, Emporia State University
Coleen Parmer, Bowling Green State University
Amy West, University of Minnesota
Number of Titles Installed
• University of Minnesota 
– 31 titles, 99 individual discs

• Bowling Green State University
– 140 titles, 395 volumes

• Emporia State University 
– 12 titles
Access: Hours and Remote
• All - Library Building Hours, no remote access
User Interface
• University of Minnesota
– Local Web Site with Executable Links to Start CDs

• Bowling Green State University
– Local Web Site with Executable Links to Start CDs

• Emporia State University
– Desktop Icons
Delivery of CD-ROMs
• University of Minnesota
– Via Virtual CD v. 4, an emulator program that saves  virtual versions of the CDs to the workstation

• Bowling Green State University
– Via CD-ROM drive and launching software called W3Launch

• Emporia State University 
– Via CD-ROM drive, with staff mediation
Delivery of Guides
• University of Minnesota
– As web pages; link to CD is on the guide page

• Bowling Green State University
– As web pages which users connect to from a help button

• Emporia State University
– In print and/or online
Institutional Practices
• University of Minnesota

– Security
• Fortres Security & public user profile which limits user interaction with hard drives

– Administrative Access
• via administrative profile, available to all department staff

– Back Up
• maintained by IT department

Institutional Practices
• Bowling Green State University
– Security
• Public workstations have two desktops:  public and restricted use (pass word protected).

– Administrative Access 
• limited users with passwords to administrative profile

– Back Up
• Workstation image created with Norton Ghost software with backup copy on office server.
Institutional Practices
• Emporia State University

– Security
• limited public user profile

– Administrative Access
• all changes limited to administrator profile, access to profile for Head of Collection Development and Documents Librarian only

– Back Up
• undecided
Workstation Configuration
• University of Minnesota

– Operating System & Applications
•  Windows NT
• Internet Explorer, Public Web Browser v. 2
• WS_FTP, Winzip, 
• Excel 95 and 97 viewers, dBase viewer

– Hardware & Printing
• 3.5" floppy and Zip drives
• networked printing for a fee
Workstation Configuration
• Bowling Green State University

– Operating System & Applications
•  Windows 98
• Mozilla web browser
• Excel viewer

– Hardware & Printing 
• 3.5" floppy and Zip drives, DVD & CD/R drives
• networked printing


Workstation Configuration
• Emporia State University

– Operating System & Applications
• undecided

– Hardware & Printing
• 3.5" floppy drive, zip drive, CD-R/DVD drive


Large Titles
• University of Minnesota 
– Not an issue yet; not decided on Census 2000 disks

• Bowling Green State University
– Does not think this will be an issue

• Emporia State University
– No decision as yet, although anticipate possible challenges with Census 2000
Maintenance Responsibilities
• University of Minnesota
– GPL for any application problems; all other maintenance by IT department

• Bowling Green State University
– Documents staff member (20 hours per week)

• Emporia State University
– Head of Collection Development and Documents Librarian
Pesky titles and solutions
• University of Minnesota
– http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/cd/pesky.phtml

• Bowling Green State University
– http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/services/govdocs/cddoc.html

• Emporia State University
– Not sure yet










For More Information

• Karen Nordgren:   Nordgrek@esumail.emporia.edu

• Coleen Parmer:    parmer@bgnet.bgsu.edu

• Amy E. West:            westx045@tc.umn.edu


Relevant Web Sites
• This presentation
– http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/ppt/cds.ppt

• BGSU Documentation
– http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/services/govdocs/cddoc.html

• University of Minnesota Documentation
– http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/cd/summary.phtml