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Judith Horgen (jhorgen@www.biblio.org)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:05:42 -0400 

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:05:42 -0400
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970812140725.00697f58@biblio.org>
From: Judith Horgen <jhorgen@www.biblio.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: 

        Hi Cathy: New Milford Library has just completed installation of a
CD-ROM server which is connected to our existing LAN. All CD products
for the public are accessible from Everybody's CAT and work off of an
optical imprint on a 9 gig hard drive. The way the E-Cats are set up,
the public doesn't know (or care) whether the information data bases
they see are online or CD products...they are merely a menu option. In
addition all administrative work stations are also on the LAN and are
configured to access Office 97 and Publisher 97. Each department head
has its own "space" on the server as well as shared space which we can
all access. This is all backed up on tape every evening. The server was
purchased and installed from Data Comm. For technical details, contact
Peggy Ganong, Technical Services Librarian <pganong@biblio.org>. For
information concerning CD products contact Carl DeMilia, Adult Services
Librarian <cdemilia@biblio.org>. For any other information, you may
contact me, Judy Horgen, Library Director <jhorgen@biblio.org>. 

At 03:35 PM 8/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hi, I am Cathy Ahern, writing to you from the Russell Library in
>Middletown. After years of dealing with a variety of standalone computers
>with a wide array of CD towers, jukeboxes, and such, not to mention flip
>flopping of disks in and out of machines we are beginning to explore
>developing a LAN. What we think we want to do is to upgrade our exisiting
>computers to all run Windows 95,maybe eventually moving to Windows NT, add
>appropriate network cards and such, and provide to users a mix of CD-ROM
>and hopefully Internet resources. We may begin small, money as always being
>an issue, by linking no more than 7 or 8 computers.
>
>We have formed a Technology Task Force which is doing lots of reading and
>studying on LAN technology, and we do have some money in place for the
>wiring portion of this project. I am hoping that some of you could share
>your experiences in setting up a LAN from the ground up. I will list some
>specific questions, please respond to my email address, or I also welcome
>phone calls or in person meetings on this subject (anything to get this all
>to sink in!!).
>Here goes:
>
>-Did your library hire someone to come in to help and/or consult on the LAN
>design, and if so was this a person or firm that specialized in working
>with libraries? Are they still working with you? Does your library have a
>person or persons who work on the LAN and other technology issues
>exclusively?
>
>-How did you go about selecting products/sources to include on the LAN?
>Could you provide names of both adult and children's products that work
>well in this environment, and maybe even items that do not seem to do so
>well-crash time!
>
>-We would like to hear about LANs that include both CD-ROM and Internet
>based resouces, how this type of set up is put together, and how well it
>works. Any problems switching between products with this set up.
>
>-Of course security is an issue. Any insight on how you secure the LAN
>would be helpful.
>
>I know that this is a great deal to ask, please feel free to respond to any
>part of this that you can. An help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Cathy Ahern
>Russell Library
>123 Broad St.
>Middletown, CT 06457
>860-347-2520
>Fax: 860-347-4048
>ahern@russell.connix.com
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