Quick Lookup Laptops in the Library: Leveraging Linux with a SLAX LiveCD

Description

This article discusses the experiences over the past year at Laurentian University in deploying a Linux live CD solution to create customized kiosk browsers on ‘quick lookup’ laptops. This provides security, reliability, ease of use, and improved response time compared to other options. We explain why we chose this solution, reveal techniques we used to achieve some of our goals, and reflect on possible future iterations of this project.

Links & Downloads

1. Dan Scott and Kevin Beswick. “Quick Lookup Laptops in the Library: Leveraging Linux with a SLAX LiveCD.” The Code4Lib Journal 24 Mar 2008. 22 Sep 2008 <http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/49>.
2. 1940-5758
3. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/49
4. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/310

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Linux

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OSUL.10219/310
Date	24 March 2008
Creators	Scott, Dan, Beswick, Kevin
Publisher	The Code4Lib Journal
Source Sets	Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article