password protected ebook access

[Kate Butler]

Practically, you could put it on a page only your patrons could access, such as the account page they access via the OPAC when they log in with their card.

But I have to say (IMO)  this sounds like a really bad idea.  If there’s a system wide login, then there’s no motivation for the patrons to worry about keeping that information to themselves -- it doesn’t affect them personally if the information gets out and you would have little way to figure out who the problem patron was. Your only recourse if the information got out into the wild would be to change the global login and have to re-educate every single person using the system.  It sounds like an administrative nightmare waiting to happen.

Is there no way to tie this to their library card numbers and authenticate them as individuals?

Kate Butler
Technology Librarian
Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH)
http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/

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I am part of a multi-type library consortium consisting of public, school, academic and even a special museum library.  We are just starting to explore developing eBook collections that would require our patrons to know a system wide user name and password to access the resources.

That isn't a problem for the schools and academics to share that type of information with their students, but how do we share it with our public library patrons, without sharing it with the world?

Has anyone developed a way to do this?

Chris Magnusson
Arrowhead Library System
Mountain Iron, Minnesota
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