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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:

  1. Decide how the kiosk should be set up. You can do one of the following:
    1. Set up a Windows or AIX/6000 workstation and the IBM softcopy collections yourself in your department or library.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
  2. Use the collections at your workstation or give them to the LAN administrator or your host system administrator. Do one of the following:
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
  3. 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.