Monday, January 21, 2008

Google Docs

Yes, Google Docs is pretty neat. And useful in a library context too. We want to let our patrons do work on our catalog machines, but they are secured using the Public Web Browser shell. We can't really put any software on them, because that would require letting patrons out to Windows. And, in addition, it would be expensive - We have 17 catalog workstations. So, we will just add Google Docs to the list of allowed websites. That will let patrons do research in our databases, the resources we share with OWLSnet, InfoSoup, etc. and then use the results in a term paper, report, etc.

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