[WEB4LIB] Re: Impact of statewide database deals?

[Elizabeth Swift]

Here in Alabama the public libraries issue an Alabama Virtual Library
(AVL) card.  The state's Supercomputer Authority has set up pages that
use perl scripts.  Once you are logged in, it looks to me like it uses
referring urls to authenticate.

Here in Jefferson County, we had the Innovative WAM product and used it
from the beginning of the AVL.  The AVL card started after about 6
months after the AVL began.  Our patrons can use the AVL card or their
library cards to access the AVL products from outside of the library.

"Richard L. Goerwitz III" wrote:

> I've been wondering how states doing this are providing remote
> access?  And what about the issue of authentication?

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Elizabeth E. Swift
System Librarian
Jefferson County Library Cooperative
2100 Park Place
Birmingham, AL 35203-2794
eswift at bham.lib.al.us
Tel. 205.226.3722
Fax 205.226.3729
http://www.jclc.org