Just a week after I blogged about this exact issue, I find this in Iowa. If anyone from the Pella Public Librar attends my workshop tomorrow I do plan on asking them about it. Failing that, I might send an e-mail their direction to find out the story.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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2 Replies to “No USB allowed”
That is super lame…
I wonder if they just don’t have anyone there knowledgable enough about technology to implement the necessary security (deepfreeze or whatever) to protect the computers. It’s usually more about fear and ignorance than anything.
You totally should bring it up and also let them know what they can do to protect their computers while still allowing folks to use their USB sticks.
No one from Pella was in my class today but people who know the director at Pella were very suprised by this. They’re assuming there’s more to the story and will be helping me to look into it. I’ll continue to post information as I receive it.
That is super lame…
I wonder if they just don’t have anyone there knowledgable enough about technology to implement the necessary security (deepfreeze or whatever) to protect the computers. It’s usually more about fear and ignorance than anything.
You totally should bring it up and also let them know what they can do to protect their computers while still allowing folks to use their USB sticks.
No one from Pella was in my class today but people who know the director at Pella were very suprised by this. They’re assuming there’s more to the story and will be helping me to look into it. I’ll continue to post information as I receive it.