Defining Use Cases for Federating Library Services

At 2:27 PM -0500 11/6/09, LLG5 wrote:
> 	I am not a librarian but I can describe how this process 
> works at Penn State with SFX.  Penn State uses both SFX (Open URL 
> Resolver) and MetaLib (Federated Search and gateway to Vendor 
> resources).      Our patrons generally access the abstracts via 
> Metalib or SFX.  Off campus users are automatically directed through 
> the EZproxy server to access the abstract site from these products. 
> (Both Metalib and SFX are Ezproxy aware).    At the abstract site, 
> there is a SFX button which leads the patron to SFX server at Penn 
> State; this URL doesn't have to be Ezproxy aware because SFX is. 
> This all hinges on the IP addresses being registered with the Vendor 
> and configured correctly in Metalib and SFX.

thanks very much!

quick question about the last sentence -- "This all hinges on the IP 
addresses being registered with the Vendor" -- the Vendor is the 
abstracts site ?