[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Chrome OS in consortia?

[Dan Scott]

Our university library has been using Chromebooks for its quick lookup
catalogue stations for several years now.

They're cheap, easy to use, and easy to centrally administer. You can set
them up so that they automatically begin a new session after a certain
period of time, protecting those who forget to close their session.

We haven't deployed Chromebooks for use as primary workstations--in a
university environment there is still a fair bit of specialized software we
need to provide--but we do loan Chromebooks (and only Chromebooks) to
patrons. And again, compared to trying to keep Windows machines up to date,
it's been a breeze. And they meet the vast majority of the needs of our
users: searching databases, streaming video, sending email.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:34 AM John Merriam <jmerriam at biblio.org> wrote:

> Hello.  This isn't really Evergreen related but we are evaluating Chrome
> OS (Chrome books/boxes) as an alternative option to offer to our
> libraries due to the issues Microsoft has created in Windows 10 (mostly
> surrounding the mandatory feature updates).
>
> Does anyone have experience deploying Chrome OS in a consortium or large
> library system?
>
> If so, what issues have you run into?
>
> If we decide to move forward with a Chrome OS option we would likely be
> recommending it only for patron facing machines.  We assume Chrome OS
> probably wouldn't be a good fit for staff machines.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
>
> John Merriam
> Evergreen Systems Specialist
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 24 Wooster Ave.
> Waterbury, CT 06708
> 203-577-4070 x108
>
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