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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
January 5, 2010

In This Issue:
* InCommon Library Services Webinar Jan. 15
* New Participants

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Happy New Year from InCommon

InCommon continued its growth during 2009, ending the year with 195 
participants -- including 142 higher education participants, 47 
sponsored partners and six government and non-profit research 
organizations. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for 
making InCommon such a vibrant and expanding community.

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InCommon Library Services Webinar Jan. 15

How can a library use Shibboleth and EZProxy together to better 
integrate licensed resources with your library software environment? How 
can newly developed best practices help resource providers and libraries 
better integrate single sign-on and federated access?

Get the answer to these and other questions from the InCommon Library 
Services Collaboration webinar, Friday, January 15, 2010 at 1 p.m. 
(EST). David Kennedy, an application developer at Duke University 
Libraries and chair of the collaboration’s vendor subgroup, will give a 
brief technical overview of the Best Practices developed by the 
collaboration and demonstrate how Shibboleth and EZProxy can be used 
together to better integrate licensed resources into your library 
software environment.

Library technical services staff, as well as librarians familiar with 
federating technology, should find this webinar helpful.

The webinar will help prepare your library for the changes ahead, such 
as personalization services provided by licensed resource providers, and 
demonstrate ways to overcome the challenges of your library managing IP 
addresses to provide access control. David will also give updates on 
vendors joining InCommon.

David Kennedy has more than 11 years experience working in information 
technology in academic university libraries.  Over the last two years, 
he has been a member of the InCommon Library Services Collaboration, and 
currently chairs the vendor subgroup.  He is also a member of the NISO 
SSO Authentication Working Group.

You can find background information on the group’s work on the wiki:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/inclibrary/Vendor+Subgroup

The presentation will use Adobe Connect to share slides and Internet2’s 
eDial service for audio. Here are the details:

Library Collaboration Webinar
Friday, January 15, 2010
1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 11 a.m. MST / 10 a.m. PST

Call-in numbers:

+1-734-615-7474 (preferred from any phone where long distance has no 
additional cost to the caller)

+1-866-411-0013 (toll-free in the US/Canada; please use only if you 
incur additional long-distance charges by dialing the 734 number)

Access code: 0122004#

Adobe Connect: http://internet2.acrobat.com/inclibrary/

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New Participants

Since December 1, these identity providers and services providers have 
joined InCommon:

Identity Providers:
  * Baylor University  (www.baylor.edu)
  * California Maritime Academy  (www.csum.edu)
  * California State University, Channel Islands  (www.csuci.edu)
  * California State University, San Marcos  (www.csusm.edu)
  * University of South Dakota  (www.usd.edu)
  * Whitman College  (www.whitman.edu)
        
Service Providers:
  * Zimride (www.zimride.com)

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About Zimride
Zimride combines social networks and a proprietary route-matching 
algorithm to allow friends, classmates and coworkers to arrange for 
ride-sharing.  Zimride focuses on college, university and corporate 
communities to build a critical mass of users.

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