Mieko's suggestion is half-covered by one of the enhancements discussed
at the conference last September, and submitted on behalf of EIUG
through Aaron Blazer - namely that particular logins should be able to be
associated with particular "main menus". I'll copy Mieko's comment to
Aaron as this is so closely related to My Millennium anyway.
Michael
Date sent: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:40:36 +0000
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From: Mieko Yamaguchi <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Anyone done "My Millennium" yet?
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> I share Michael's concern. We have not implemented "My Millennium" for
> the same reason that he mentions. I think "My Millennium" or the option
> to log on to the catalogue should be controlled by login/IP address, so
> that public PCs in the library may be excluded. Can we put it on the
> EIUG enhancement list (and the main IUG list as well in due course)?
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Emly wrote:
>
> > At Leeds we are interested in it, but worried about users "logging on" to
> > the catalogue on public PCs in the Library - which do not require an
> > operating system login/logoff. Users walk away and the PC is there in the
> > catalogue for the next user. But if the first user has "logged on" and the
> > screens have been personalised, then we are worried about the reaction of
> > the next user who will see something strange (we would need to insist on
> > revalidating on any transaction screens such as reservations or re-display of
> > the user record).
> >
> > And of course there is no way of excluding these Library PCs from the My
> > Millennium implementation since it is all or nothing - no login or IP
> > restriction possible.
>
> Mieko
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