HIT: Limiting Internet Sites

[Frankie Dilling <fdilling@socrates.hern.org>]

I have received 3 replies so far.
Many thanks to Robert Hiebert, Dan Robinson and Rick Speer.

>We wish to allow Internet access on some of our OPAC computers, but
>limit the sites to only our paid subscription databases, such as SIRS,
>NewsBank, etc.

1. The filtering software NetNanny (www.netnanny.com) has two modes:
    (a) block access to listed sites, and,
    (b) allow access to listed sites only.

2. You can get the information you need to do this using a proxy server
and maybe in other ways from the WEB4LIB website at
http://sunsite.berekeley.edu

3.  We are using Netscape 6.0 and using it's proxy server restrictions
where, once you invoke that, you then list server addresses (via domain
names) where you allow people to go on the Internet.
The Netscape preferences are then locked up with the latest version of
Ikiosk


Frankie Dilling, Librarian
Klein Oak H.S.
Spring, Texas
fdilling@hern.org

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