[WEB4LIB] Outsourcing RAS

[Christopher Adams]

We use Obvia (www.obvia.com) for remote access. Call Rob at 914-773-7859
for more information. Tell him that Chris from the Oregon State Library
referred you. They are still a pretty new company (aren't they all?) and
still have some bugs to work out, but for the most part it is a pretty
good service. They have a multitude of statistical reports that you can
generate and are real nice folks. 

Christopher Adams
Oregon State Library
503-378-4246

Donald Barclay wrote:
> 
> The first floor of my library was flooded by Tropical Storm Allison, and one
> of the things we lost was our remote access server. (Note to self: Do not
> store servers on the first floor in the future.)
> 
> We also lost our phone system. As soon as it came back up we started getting
> calls from users who wanted remote access to our ejournals and databases.
> Rebuilding our remote access server will take months, so we are thinking of
> outsourcing. (One example of a company that does this is Imperito
> (www.imperito.com)).
> 
> Does anyone else outsource remote access? Any recommendations, caveats, etc?
> 
> Thanks for any information on this perhaps off-topic posting.