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Setting Up a Walk-Up-and-Use Library Kiosk
Appendix B. Setting Up a Walk-Up-and-Use Library Kiosk
You can set up a walk-up-and-use kiosk for your IBM softcopy collections.
One kiosk can serve your department or one or more can serve your
entire organization. You just need to place a terminal or workstation
with access to the softcopy collections in a location that is convenient
for the members of your organization to get to when they need information.
If you are the administrator for your company’s hardcopy library,
you may already have a kiosk that you use for other kinds of library
access. You may be able to add the IBM softcopy collections to the
terminal or workstation that you are already using as a kiosk. To
set up a kiosk, you can do the following:
- Decide how the kiosk should be set up. You can do one of the following:
- Set up a Windows or AIX/6000 workstation and the IBM softcopy
collections yourself in your department or library.
- Work with your LAN administrator to set up a Windows or AIX/6000
LAN-connected workstation that has access to a LAN server containing
the IBM softcopy collections.
- Work with your z/OS, z/VM, or VM system administrator to set up
a host-connected terminal or workstation that has access to a z/OS,
z/VM, or VM host that contains IBM softcopy collections. You may need
to help your administrator by uploading the contents of the softcopy
collections to your host system.
- Use the collections at your workstation or give them to the LAN
administrator or your host system administrator. Do one of the following:
- Use the collections in one or more CD-ROM or DVD drives attached
to your kiosk. You might want to put the drives in a secure place
to prevent users from switching discs without your knowing it.
- Copy the books and IBM Softcopy Reader from the discs on a CD-ROM
or DVD drive attached to your kiosk onto a large hard disk in the
kiosk.
- If your kiosk does not have its own CD-ROM or DVD drive but is
connected to a host, you can upload the books and the Softcopy Reader
from the discs at a workstation that has a CD-ROM or DVD drive to
your host and then download them to your kiosk.
- Upload the books from the discs at a workstation that has a CD-ROM
or DVD drive to your z/OS, z/VM, or VM host.
- Provide instructions to your users so they can get access to the
IBM softcopy collections.
To improve user access to softcopy on a kiosk, you might want to
copy some of the tools or interfaces provided on softcopy collections.
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