[OPLINLIST] OPLINLIST Digest, Vol 26, Issue 8
Marlene Pelyhes
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Thu Dec 6 20:27:55 EST 2007
Mentor Public Library allows patrons to check their web-based email accounts
using the Public Computers. We also allow chat
Thanks and Good Luck
Marlene Pelyhes
IT Manager
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Today's Topics:
1. e-mail (jordanka at oplin.org)
2. Re: e-mail (Poppy Girton)
3. Re: e-mail (Dan Will)
4. Re: e-mail (Georgiana)
5. Re: e-mail (Andrea Adkins)
6. Re: e-mail (Cynthia Maxey)
7. Re: e-mail (Diana Parker)
8. Re: e-mail (Avery Shifflett)
9. Re: e-mail (Douglas Anderson)
From: jordanka at oplin.org
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:28:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers?
There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board
as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked
to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
From: Poppy Girton <girtonpo at oplin.org>
CC: oplinlist at oplin.org
To: jordanka at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:41:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
We do allow patrons to access their e-mail accounts. The advantage of
e-mail like Yahoo mail is that it can be accessed from any computer,
anywhere, and we have many people who are "just passing through" who
need to stay in touch. Frankly, e-mail is one of the least of our
problems. For many people, e-mail is almost as archaic as writing a
letter. Spam and other assorted evils have made e-mail annoying, and
young people are more likely to use IM. But, people need e-mail
addresses to order from Amazon, create job applications, and myriad
other things.
Good luck!
--
Poppy Girton-Head of Adult Services
Carnegie Public Library
127 S North St.
Washington CH, OH 43160
(740) 335-2540 x. 18 voice
(740) 335-8409 Fax
girtonpo at oplin.org
From: Dan Will <willda at oplin.org>
CC: oplinlist at oplin.org
To: jordanka at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:42:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
That is probably one of the biggest draws for our patrons. The ability to access their e-mail. We do not allow them to setup Outlook Express or any other e-mail client though. If they can't get it in a web browser...........sorry.
-- Dan Will Technology Supervisor Meigs County District Public Library Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 740.992.5813 740.992.6140 (fax) willda at oplin.org The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy
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From: jordanka at oplin.org
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:28:57 -0500 (EST)
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers? There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy _______________________________________________ OPLINLIST mailing list OPLINLIST at oplin.org http://mail.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplinlist
From: "Georgiana" <huizenge at oplin.org>
To: <jordanka at oplin.org>,
<oplinlist at oplin.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:44:06 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Oops! I meant to reply to the whole list - yes, we certainly do! Even
though we don't provide email addresses for patrons, we do allow them to
check their email from the patron computers. This happens frequently when
folks are having trouble with their home computers, or they are travelling
through, or just because our computers are faster.
Georgi Huizenga, Harris-Elmore Public Library
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Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
> Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers?
> There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board
> as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked
> to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
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From: Andrea Adkins <abradkins at yahoo.com>
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:46:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Yes, that is one of the main reasons people use our computers. We've always allowed them to.
Andrea B. Adkins, Librarian
Information Services Manager
Marietta Library - Washington County Public Libraries
615 Fifth Street
Marietta, OH 45750
740-373-1057 ext. 208
andrea at wcplib.lib.oh.us
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From: Andrea Adkins <abradkins at yahoo.com>
To: jordanka at oplin.org
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 3:37:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Yes, that is one of the main reasons people use our computers. We've always allowed them to.
Andrea B. Adkins, Librarian
Information Services Manager
Marietta Library - Washington County Public Libraries
615 Fifth Street
Marietta, OH 45750
740-373-1057 ext. 208
andrea at wcplib.lib.oh.us
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From: "jordanka at oplin.org" <jordanka at oplin.org>
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 3:28:57 PM
Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers?
There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board
as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked
to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
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Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. From: "Cynthia Maxey" <cmaxey at avonlake.lib.oh.us>
To: <oplinlist at oplin.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:48:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Absolutely. We have many patrons who use our computers as their only
access to their email accounts. In fact, we often show patrons how to
set up an account on yahoo or hotmail. Especially for our lower-income
and many of our senior patrons it is an essential service that allows
them to job search, keep in touch with family, get needed services they
otherwise could not access.
Cindy Maxey, MLIS
Librarian, Adult Services
32649 Electric Blvd.
Avon Lake Public LIbrary
Avon Lake, Ohio 44012
440.933.8128 ext. 248
440.933.5659 fax
http://www.avonlake.lib.oh.us
[I]t is of paramount importance that the means of general information be
so diffused that the largest possible number of persons should be
induced to read and understand questions going down to the very
foundations of social order...and which we, as a people, are required to
decide, and do decide, either ignorantly or wisely.
Trustees, Boston Public Library, 1852
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From: oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of jordanka at oplin.org
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:29 PM
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet
computers?
There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and
board
as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have
talked
to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
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From: Diana Parker <ill.smfpl at yahoo.com>
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:08:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Same here, we definitely allow email. We have handouts
on how to set up a Yahoo account, and reference staff
can all help someone get through the process. We also
teach an email class as part of our computer class
curriculum.
Diana Parker
"If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those
of the institution."
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Diana L. Parker
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
3512 Darrow Road
Stow, OH 44224
Tel: (330) 688-3295
Fax: (330) 688-3176
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From: "Avery Shifflett" <shifflav at oplin.org>
To: <oplinlist at oplin.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:10:09 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
If you were to deny patrons access to their email accounts, you might as
well shut off the computers. Email is now an integral part of Internet use
for the majority of users and you would be severely limiting access by
cutting off email. I shudder imagining the rioting that would result from
patrons if that kind of a policy went into effect.
There are far too many legitimate uses in favor of email.
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From: oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of jordanka at oplin.org
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:29 PM
To: oplinlist at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers?
There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board
as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked
to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
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From: "Douglas Anderson" <doug.anderson at cacl.info>
CC: oplinlist at oplin.org
To: jordanka at oplin.org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:14:22 -0500
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] e-mail
We definitely do allow our patrons to use their e-mail accounts on our public computers, provided the e-mail account can be accessed via the Web. We have security settings in place now that prevent Outlook Express from working, because we had several patrons who kept trying to set it up to access their non-Web e-mail accounts. But we place no restrictions on web-based e-mail at all.
As many others on the list have said, it is one of the primary reasons that our Internet patrons need the computers -- and as someone else pointed out, being able to access it makes so much more possible on the web, as well.
-- Doug A.
On Dec 6, 2007 3:28 PM, <jordanka at oplin.org> wrote:
Do you allow patrons to access their e-mail from your internet computers?
There is a discussion going on here between the director, staff and board
as to what to do. Please respond to the list as some people I have talked
to are watching the list to see the comments. Thanks, Kathy
--
Douglas E. Anderson, Reference Coordinator
Ashtabula County District Library
335 W. 44th St.
Ashtabula, OH 44004 USA
440/997-9341
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