[Publib] Keeping people off the WWW on opacs

[Julie Bauer]

There's a no-cost -- but fiddly -- solution in
Internet Options.  On the Connections tab, click the
LAN Settings button, then check Proxy Server and click
the Advanced button.  Enter the URL of your OPAC in
the exceptions box.  Users will not be able to access
any site that is not in your OPAC's domain.  For
example, if your OPAC's URL is
http://www.library.org/OPAC, then only addresses
beginning with that string are accessible, so
http://www.library.org/OPAC/searchresults and so on
will work, but www.google.com will not.

I told you it was fiddly.  Get Public Web Browser
anyway, it's well worth the money.


--- Linda Cannon <LCannon at joplinpubliclibrary.org>
wrote:

>  
> We use Public Web Browser from TeamSoftware
> Solutions to accomplish the
> same task.
> 
> Linda Cannon, Collection Development Librarian
> Joplin Public Library
> 300 S. Main St.
> Joplin, MO  64801
> 417-623-7953
> lcannon at joplinpubliclibrary.org
> http://www.joplinpubliclibrary.org 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
> Julie Rinaldi
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:30 PM
> To: sarah boyd; publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] "serious" internet users
> versus "entertainment"
> users
> 
> Sarah,
>  
> Our IS Dept. installed WinSelect and DeepFreeze on
> our OPAC workstations
> a year ago and that's been very effective in keeping
> people from using
> these computers to sneak on to the WWW.
>  
> Julie Rinaldi            (916) 355-7374
> Librarian
> Folsom Public Library
> 300 Persifer Street
> Folsom, California   95630
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of
> sarah boyd
> Sent: Wed 6/28/2006 11:42 AM
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Publib] "serious" internet users versus
> "entertainment" users
> 
> 
> ... There are those clever souls who ... use the
> OPACS to get online ...
> 
> Sarah H. Boyd
> Adult Services Dept. Head
> Columbus Public Library
> 3000 Macon Road
> Columbus, GA  31906
> sboyd at cvrls.net
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Julie Bauer
Collection Development Librarian
Loudoun County Public Library
Leesburg, Virginia