<div dir="ltr">Hello Kevin, good to hear from you. <div><br></div><div>We currently use Cassie with our chromebooks that we checkout for in library use along with Google Workspace management. We check them out for the day, so we don't really need the Cassie computer management, but using it for printing made that part easy. Printing works the same as our windows public computers which makes it easier on staff to not have a different method for them. Setup was a little tricky because I kept running into bugs, but Librarica support was able to fix issues as they came up, or provide work arounds. They are also pretty good at allowing test licenses to try things out if you want to get something setup before.</div><div><br></div><div>Librarica has a guide to getting Cassie up and running on ChromeOS. You setup the cassie app to be force installed for each session in the google admin.</div><div><br></div><div>I have heard of very few problems with this setup. And upgrading cassie is way easier for the chromebooks then having to deploy the update to windows machines locked down with deepfreeze.</div><div><br></div><div>We also make use of Papercut Mobility to handle chromeos and public wireless printing in our small sites that are open less than 10 hours a week. That is free, but doesn't give you any sort of release control. It just gets the print jobs to the printer and can deal with printers that are not new enough to have native chromeos support.</div><div><br></div><div>There is also a "ChromeOS in Libraries" group that doesn't have a huge amount of traffic, but people are usually responsive when questions are asked.</div><div><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/chromebooks_lib">https://groups.google.com/g/chromebooks_lib</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Josh</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 6:59 PM Kevin Co via Evergreen-general <<a href="mailto:evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org">evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8388162296480202133">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings from Alaska!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">General library tech question: Anyone out there have any experience using chromebox machines in their public computer labs? What are folks using for printing and session management?
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re using PC’s + Cassie + Deepfreeze, but looking out for wisdom and future solutions.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks all, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Kevin, Homer Public Library <u></u><u></u></p>
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