Print Busters
Staff -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2001
Think your library is being shortchanged when it comes to patrons' printing costs? CybraryPRiNT aims to manage library printing costs by making users accountable for their copies.
Using the standard version of Cybrary-PRiNT, library users must deposit money into a separate debit account. When the patron wants to print, a library staffer swipes the card through a special card reader. Each time the user prints a copy, the software deducts the cost from the amount stored in the patron's debit account and authorizes the computer to print. The deluxe version uses a prepaid debit card that users can purchase in various denominations.
Another new product, CybrarySafe from CybraryN, is designed to help with filtering. Libraries install it from a CD-ROM onto their Internet stations, but the rest is up to parents. Parents are asked to browse through CybrarySafe's lists of "safe" Web sites to select those to which they want their child to have access. After logging in, the child can only get to those preselected sites. See www.CybraryN.com for details.
