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...Behalf Of Martin Weiss Sent: December 1, 1999 06:33
Does your museum/science center have a written policy that
covers the appropriate use of computers in the workplace? Do you feel
it is necessary? Have you developed such a policy? Would you be
willing to share it?
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Yes, we have a computer policy and yes we would be willing to share it.
The "City of Burnaby MICROCOMPUTER POLICIES" Revised April 12, 1994 and is
12 pages long. It was written by Murray Macaulay (City of Burnaby,
Information Services Dept.) who in turn had obtained a lot of the
information from Richard Pitt of Pitt Meadows, BC, CANADA. (Richard's web
site states: "The Fireplug Consulting Group ... In the Internet Business
since 1983! In the Computer Business since... before the PC revolution!"
http://www.fireplug.net/ )
Our city has been very cautious with computer use, and it took a long time
for e-mail and then for WWW access to filter down to middle management. Even
now our web site usage is very tightly controlled. For example I am not
allowed to put my museum's web site URL on brochures, letters and business
cards - I must put the generic city URL. A visitor must figure out that the
museum is under Parks, Recreation and Culture, then under Facilities, then
find it (this task is complicated by the fact that our museum uses two
different names - something I do not advocate). We are not alone in this
deeply buried web page problem as I was speaking with a colleague in another
city's museum who has a similar problem regarding their web site.
Sections in our policy:
1. Microcomputers - Utilization policy
2. Acquisition policy - PC's, peripherals & software
3. PC maintenance - budgeting
4. PC maintenance - Service
5. Software support
6. Software upgrades
7. PC supplies
8. Obsolete, superseded or replaced - PCs, peripherals, or software
9. Transferring PC software or hardware
10. Software piracy
11. Software - home use of
12. PC software & hardware control
Issues covered above include virus control, legal ownership of software,
inventory control, and approval to purchase (this is important as some
people want to simply buy their favourite word processor etc. which may not
be the city 'standard' or worse yet, may not be compatible for file
exchange.)
Colin Macgregor Stevens,
Curator,
Burnaby Village Museum,
Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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