[OPLINTECH] Office 2013, SkyDrive, & local policies

[Phil Shirley]

What's your policy or practice regarding what staff can do with library 
documents and data? What are your thoughts on this?

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.

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.

I'm considering disabling SkyDrive. I've heard that some organizations 
do this in order to enforce their policies about data storage.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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