<div dir="ltr">Not to mention the whole privacy issue. Any data stored in the cloud is potentially accessible via hosting company mistakes (I see reports of that periodically), attacks, and (as recently come to light) it's apparently freely/readily/automatically given to the government! Storing library operational data is one thing, but you might think twice about storing any patron-identifiable data.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For my own use, I map my data folder to Google Cloud, so my stuff is automatically backed up to Google every time a file is changed. I find it hugely convenient and reassuring that I have an up-to-the-second copy of my data. However, I'm trying to find a good way to automatically encrypt/decrypt the individual files on the fly. Security is my biggest concern with the setup.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">WRT your specific question, does perhaps SkyDrive have a method to force individual users to store data in a shared (library-owned) repository, thus eliminating the issues you're concerned about?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Phil Shirley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pshirley@cuyahogafallslibrary.org" target="_blank">pshirley@cuyahogafallslibrary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What's your policy or practice regarding what staff can do with library documents and data? What are your thoughts on this?<br>
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We're going to start using Office 2013, and I noticed that it encourages you to use SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud-based storage for documents, etc.<br>
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I like the idea of storing things on our server rather that in a Microsoft account that only the individual has access to. The documents that staff create belong to the library, not to the person, and if the person leaves or is fired or is unable to return to work for whatever reason, I think the library should have access to the documents the person created. There's also the issue of handling sensitive data.<br>
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I'm considering disabling SkyDrive. I've heard that some organizations do this in order to enforce their policies about data storage.<br>
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