InC-Lib-Vendor

["Kent Percival" <>]

In the 2007 12 version of eduPerson  (see http://middleware.internet2.edu/eduperson/docs/internet2-mace-dir-eduperson-200712.html),  Library Walk-ins are described through the following note.  I’m not sure it really helps the case since it seems to suggest that the definition could vary depending on license terms with vendors!   Libraries certainly use the term in different ways.  At Guelph, “walk-in” us mostly used to describe users from outside the University community – those without a University ID.

"Library-walk-in:" This value is intended to facilitate the handling of a fairly widely encountered agreement between an institution and licensed resource providers that e-resources may be made accessible to students, faculty, staff and library walk-ins. This term originally indicated people who were physically present in a library facility. In recent years the library walk-in provision has been extended to cover other cases such as library users on the campus network, or those using on-campus workstations. Licensed resource providers have often been willing to interpret their contracts with licensees to accept this broader definition of "library-walk-in," though specific terms may vary. Under appropriate licensing terms, it is valid to assert an affiliation of "library-walk-in" for members of this broader class of users. The affiliation "library-walk-in" is independent of any other affiliation value. In other words, having the affiliation "library-walk-in" has no effect, positive or negative, on any of the other defined affiliation values. Similarly, no other affiliation value implies or precludes the affiliation "library-walk-in."

 

David’s agenda made the case for documenting best practice around protocol use conventions.  I think our discussion of who’s responsible for implementing licensing policy, what attributes are needed, and appropriate values for those attributes are all part of a Community of Practice best practices documentation that is also needed.

 

 

....Kent

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