My flash drive has some files which are individually write protected and
will soon be occasionally encrypted, but that would not stop anyone who
found it from deleting them without a password.

Green initiative?  The carbon produced to make individual flash drives
for each copy uses less carbon than making paper and ink?  Whodathunkit?

Hank Young
University of Florida

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tracey Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:40 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] CD-ROMs and Flash Drives

Hello,

Has anyone come up with a solution for what to do with archives or
content
sent on CD-ROMS?  Do you simply store them (and how do you keep track of
them), do you catalog and make available, etc.  As part of one of our
journal subscriptions we receive a complimentary copy of the conference
proceedings which we received yesterday.  In an green initiative they
did
not send them out in paper format instead they used a USB drive.  After
we
stopped chuckling, we stared at it in bafflement.  We have no idea what
to
do with it.   It is not write protected.  I am not sure you can even
write
protect a USB drive. Does anyone encountered such before, or does anyone
have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Tracey Thompson

Acquisitions Librarian

New Mexico State University Library

MSC 3475 P.O. Box 30006

Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006

(p) 575-646-8093

(f) 575-646-7477