InCommon Library Services

[Laura Wrubel <>]

Next week is pretty tough for me. My availability:

April 16-18 not available
April 19 available after 2pm
April 20 not available

Laura

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Laura S. Wrubel
Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian
University of Maryland Libraries
Information Technology Division
McKeldin Library, B0228
College Park, MD 20742-7011
301-314-2721 (phone)
301-314-9865 (fax)



David Kennedy wrote:
> My schedule:
> Apr 16 - not available
> Apr 17-20 - available all day
>
> Issues to address/explore:
> 1) (From its description and not from experience) I do not think that 
> U-Washington's mod_auth_location meets completely the needs of the 
> library for walk-ins.  While it does meet some of the needs, it does 
> not allow users at public terminals the ability for personalized 
> logins.  So, researchers would not be able to access their saved 
> searches, saved citations, etc from the public terminals in the 
> library.  I would like to explore alternatives.
>
> 2) We use a gateway software, Metalib, that is Shibbolized.  Metalib 
> is used as the access point to online resources, and provides users 
> with URLs to get to the online resources.  However, Metalib does not 
> prefix these URLs with the appropriate Shib IdP prefix in order to 
> properly SSO authenticate the user at the online resource SP.  We need 
> to address this somehow, or the user will be hit with a WAYF at the 
> Service Provider.
>
> There are two ways to address this one.  One is to address this with 
> the software (Metalib) vendor and ask for the change there.  The other 
> is to have vendors (SP) provide a unique entry point URL for each 
> institution that is wedded to one IdP, and could be implemented at the 
> SP side with RequestMap configuration.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----------------------
> David Kennedy
> Applications Developer
> USMAI Libraries
> McKeldin Library
> College Park, MD 20742
>
> (301) 405-9051
> (301) 314-9865 (fax)
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:45 PM
> Subject: [inc-librsvcs] scheduling a first conference call
>
>
> > Change already... based on feedback, the name of the list and the 
> > domain/machine hosting the list have both been changed.... the old 
> > list name is going away....
> >
> > I'd like to suggest two action items:
> >
> > 1) could each campus post to the (new!) email list the set of the 
> > issues they feel they'll need to address in order to begin to use 
> > Shibboleth within their library services. Possible issues might be 
> > technical, integration, user experience, process, policy, whatever.....
> >
> > 2) schedule the first conference call, for some time during the week 
> > of April 16th. Please send to the list days/times during that week 
> > when you're available.... That week might might turn out to be too 
> > close, but let's try....
> >
> > I'd like to ask if the issues lists could be shared on the email 
> > before the first conference call.
> >
> > Thanks!

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