As for the flash drive, it seems like you would have to put the
file(s) from the flash drive onto your network somehow to make it
available.  Easy to do, but hard if you don't have access to a
content management system for your website or a designated place on a
server to put the file and then create a URL for it.

As for the CD-ROM archives, I do not know. I have a set of digital
tapes containing the data in a huge historical resource that we
purchased. I don't know what to do with those either. The data by
itself would not be very useful without the search interface, so I
don't see how we could actually "use" it if we didn't pay the annual
data fee. But we "bought" it and the data belongs to us, so the
company sent it to us.

Pat Thompson

At 10:39 AM 7/23/2008, you wrote:
>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
>
>

Patricia R. Thompson
Assistant University Librarian for Resource Management Services
Jessie Ball duPont Library
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
Phone: 931-598-1657
Email: pthompso@sewanee.edu