On Thu, 18 Jun 1992 20:09:03 EST Kathryn Wright said:
>What does your institution do when wandering scholars - and librarians -
>show up, begging?
   Our computer center is pretty good about guest accounts, just as they
are for all of us.  Lots of our State Library and other non-BSU folks have
accounts on our mainframe.  Also, if I couldn't get you one or you were just
here for a day or so, I'd just let you telnet on my account.
 
Librarians attending ALA or other major conferences have at least one
vendor, Faxon, providing free telnet service from an account on one of their
machines to your home account to read mail, etc.  They use 9600 dialup
to their home 800 number and had 3 terminals setup at the ACRL conference
in April.  Hopefully they will have more in San Francisco later this
month. I wonder if this happens at other professional conferences.
 
Also, we have a couple of laptops that staff can checkout to take to
conferences, consulting trips, etc.
 
dan
 
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