password_tips

//Linda McSweeney, the Stowe Middle/High School School Library Media Specialist, put together an email that summarized the VSLA list-serve responses to the question, "What do you do with all your passwords?". I have included her email in the entirety://

So as you'd expect, we are all over the place with responses to this so far:

No one responded taped under the keyboard--so we can check that one off the list!
 * Little address book hidden in desk (tried that)
 * File Folders with hardcopies of vendor and db account info
 * Like this one--repurposing an old rollodex cause no one ever looks at them ;-)
 * Keep in hardcopy Library PandP manual because no one except the next librarian would look there ;-)
 * Switch over as many as possible to single log in with Google domain (like this!)
 * Google spreadsheet with generic account (SHSLibrarian@domain.org)

I think we're going to try sharing a google spreadsheet that I already have with our IT person. That way at least one other person in the school will have these accounts all in one place. We're also exploring creating generics for Athletic Director, Adm Assistant, Guidance Counselor, Librarian etc. We can have the email forward to the current person in the position, but then all the important documents (and stuff like passwords) can be kept in that account--then I can share those docs with my own account, so I don't have to log in to the generic (and vice versa).

Thanks for all the responses! Linda

-- Linda McSweeney, //Librarian// Stowe Middle/High School 413 Barrows Rd. Stowe, VT 05672 802-253-7229 x1326 Linda.McSweeney@LSSUVT.org

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