HIT: Alexandria for Web

[Keith Johnson <keith_johnson@HOPKINS.K12.MN.US>]

Hello,
        Below is a collection of 5 responses that I received regarding my
inquiry about the Alexandria for Web product. Many thanks to those who
took the time to respond. People who are interested in specific contacts
regarding any of these postings can email me, and I will pass those
contacts on to you.

Keith Johnson, Media
Hopkins High School
Hopkins, MN 55305

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    We have had Alexandria Web for about 3 months.  Works great.  We are
running the program on an iMac with 64 mb of ram as our Internet server.
I
chose Alex Web, because we have both Macs and PCs in our Media Center and
we wanted both to access the collection.  Along with a number of
subscription online data bases, students and teachers can access our
catalog anywhere in the building or at home.  It fulfills our desire to
expand the walls of the MC and make the collection more accessible. We
have found that the catalog is accessed frequently after hours and on weekends.
That's a good sign!
    My greatest disappointment with the web product is with the
appearance.  There is very little customizing available.  The background
is gray and there are no fonts or design options.  I have requested that
Alexandria address that in the future.

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We have Alex (Mac) on the Web and it works great. Even our tech and the
tech from our REMC was impressed.

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I have just ordered it. I saw a demornstration at one of our High Schools
and was very impressed.

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We are a MAC school who uses the web to access Alexandria.  I like
it far better than I liked the 3.something we were using previously.  The
only major problem which Alexandria tech support has not answered (nor
seems overly anxious to solve) is that when you log on from home (off
campus) you cannot access the web sites that we've put on the database. We
can access them from school but not off campus.

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We think the NEW Alex for Web (5.0)is great, as a matter of fact, we are
using it instead of Research Workstation on some of our older Macs
because they don't have the memory to run Research Workstation, but thay
can run an old netscape and use the catalog.  The new web version is
virtually identical in function to the Research workstation, is platform
independent, allows us to have our students do library searches home and
makes it easy for students in each building to check the catalogs of the
other schools in the district.

Before you convert to 5.0 I suggest you take care of the corruption
problems.  Out conversion to 5.0 was plagued by problems with a
corrupted
data base in one building.

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Saw your posting about Alexandria.  Looks like your interested in the
web version.. We have been using the Mac IP version in about 10
libraries since last fall.

The short version is we all regret choosing Alexandria.

For the long version you could talk to me or our District Tech person,

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