[WEB4LIB] Re: Impact of statewide database deals?

[Jerry Kuntz]

In New York State, remote access authentication methods are negotiated between the vendors and the separate library systems that register for access. We use our own library system barcode numbers (originally CLSI-style, but now used on Dynix.)
We'd really not want to have to make patrons carry around a second, State card. And we also wouldn't want to slap a second barcode onto our system cards. And we alse don't want to make patrons keep track of IDs and passwords; or have traffic by remote users filtered through our network connections.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Elena O'Malley" <omalleye at emmanuel.edu>
Reply-To: omalleye at emmanuel.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:05:45 -0700 (PDT)

>> > It's becoming relatively common lately for a state to provide
>> > central funding for access to full text databases for all the
>> > state's residents.
>>
>> I've been wondering how states doing this are providing remote
>> access?  And what about the issue of authentication?
>
>Massachusetts Library and Information Network uses whatever the
>vendor offers, as far as I can tell. Some are set up as Thomas Dowling
>described for OhioLink -- referer authentication. Some ask for a username
>& password after determining the requestor is outside an approved IP
>range. The passworded ones are a mix -- sometimes unique to each
>library, sometimes one per regional network, and sometimes they're 
>assigned by phases of the moon.
>
>Elena O'Malley, Technology Librarian, Cardinal Cushing Library
>Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
>omalleye at emmanuel.edu
>
>

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Jerry Kuntz
Electronic Resources Consultant
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org
Author, KidsClick! Web Searching Skills Guide, http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/3/173.html
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