JD> in places where they're on metered service (charged according to
 JD> megs of data transferred) I suppose that would make them place
 JD> limits on what you could do. I.e., we have LS-120, ZIP-100, or
 JD> ZIP-250 drives on most of our public access computers. If we were 
 JD> paying business T1 rates or on metered service, we might have only
 JD> provided standard floppies. ;-)

 SH> Interesting.  I don't think that any of our libraries 
 SH> have high capacity removable media; all have 1.44 MB floppies. 

Internet aside (graphics file attachment pictures of the grandkids, driver
files and ms word or adobe acrobat files that are too big to fit on
floppy), there were just too many instances of people working with
powerpoint presentations, or large documents and spreadsheets (some of this
stuff is/was  secondary school or college class assignments); we needed
more capacity then floppies provided.

 JD> significant part of the equation An option other libraries have
 JD> pursued is using older equipment and linux. There's a library in
 JD> Colorado (Colorado Springs?) that runs their entire operation on
 JD> linux/freebsd. I'll have to dig up the url for their site. Given

 SH> I'd certainly be interested in viewing the site.  As 

gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/


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