[WEB4LIB] Re: Impact of statewide database deals?

[Tom Edelblute]

We have done something similar in Anaheim.  By having the vendors
authenticate on the range of our barcodes, it removes the administration
of the process from the library staff.  I don't have the proxy server,
the time, or the expertise to do anything else right now. So with the
vendors cooperation, we still get the remote access job done.
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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us


"Richard L. Goerwitz III" wrote:
> 
> Jerry Kuntz wrote:
> >
> > In New York State, remote access authentication methods are
> > negotiated between the vendors and the separate library systems
> > that register for access.
> 
> This is interesting.  Let me play the adversary for a moment -
> 
> Frankly, that sounds like no remote access solution at all.  NY
> has constituent institutions negotiating authentication and author-
> ization with each vendor, which isn't exactly efficient or con-
> sistent.  And each one has to negotiate remote access on its own,
> necessitating more individual negotiations with each vendor and/or
> individual and possibly redundant deployments of remote-access
> solutions like regular and reverse/rewriting proxy servers (some-
> thing many libraries don't have the systems people to support, and
> that those who have the systems people will now have to do redun-
> dantly).
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing how you feel about this setup - and
> if I've misunderstood what's going on, please correct me, or add
> any details you think might interest those of us out here who are
> grappling with these same issues!
> 
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> Richard Goerwitz                               richard at Goerwitz.COM
> tel: 401 438 8978