Save me
“Can I save my work to a floppy from 1993?… [desperately]… What am I supposed to do then?”
Sound familiar? It’s a routine conversation around here. We generally offer our bargain-basement $10 flash drive or explain how to save to the desktop and then email their file to themselves. Neither of these are particularly elegant solutions, but with a public computing system that returns the machine to its original state upon logout, it’s the best we can offer.
That’s why I was particularly interested to read about the feature of Dropbox that allows a file to be placed in an online folder and then assign in a unique url. It seems especially suited to Tom’s ingenious use in Document Delivery (Your email admins will thank you.), but I am considering how it might solve our ‘you can’t take it with you’ dilemma too?
ps. If you do work in ILL or document delivery, do read Tom’s post. Gold.
