Second, just because I know what “Close Your Session” means doesn’t mean that most people know. Maybe “Click the Red X” would work better, as suggested by another reader.

Maybe have a contest with the library staff to see who can come up with a wallpaper that actually works.

You may discover that nothing works, because no on reads the signs. Which would be even more super hilarious.

I think the act of logging in with their card is what reminds them to log out.

Our sessions are 1 hour long with the option to extend to 2 hours if no one else is waiting. Most of our patrons use up their entire allotted time every day.

@Kathy: We use Horizon, and I think our logout time is set to like 1-2 minutes – it seems very quick to me. We’re switching to Evergreen, and I imagine we’ll keep it about the same.

It seems like a big red button on the desktop might be the next best way of reminding people – I found some instructions on how create a shutdown desktop shortcut, and a bit more detail – these are both for XP, and we need a restart shortcut for Windows 7. I haven’t tested any of these yet, but it’s a start.

@Victoria: agreed.

@Jon: In that case, maybe the sign should read, “Do you want your mom to know what you were just doing?”

@Kelly: We’ve thought about switching, but PC Res is too expensive for us right now.

@Michelle: I like the lock feature – it’s one more thing to train people on, but I think once they knew about it, they would use it. Sadly, I don’t think TLM has that feature, but this is another reason we might have to upgrade to PC Res eventually.

Our regular Internet computers have a big red “logoff” button that patrons see when they close down all of their other applications, and most of the time we don’t have a problem with them not logging off.