InCommon Library Services

["Johnson, E Diane" <>]

One library vendor I'd like to suggest is eRes electronic reserves
system from Docutek.  It seems like if we have registrar records
shibbolized and we have eres shibbolized, Eres will "know" which people
to let into which reading lists and we can do away with a lot of
passwords to individual course lists.  


E. Diane Johnson

Head, Information Services 

J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library

Univ of MO - Columbia

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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [inc-librsvcs] Library vendors

At 9:36 AM -0400 4/2/09, Timothy Mori wrote:
>Regarding the third action item, Top 10 Library vendors. These are 
>library services vendors, such as ILS providers (e.g. Sirsi-Dynix), 
>ILL services (ILLiad), Reference Linking (Serial Solutions, Ex 
>Libris), etc. correct? Since there seems a high level of EZProxy 
>use, I couldn't see how electronic resources vendors would apply in 
>this case.
>

I think the intent was to ask campuses to list their Top 10 external 
information providers/vendors (eg Science Direct, Web of Science, 
OCLC, etc). Which vendors would you MOST like to see Shib-enable 
their services?

Campus libraries often have hundreds of licenses in place. However, 
I'm told that a small number of these vendors (maybe 15) represents 
85+% of the actual traffic. It may take a long time to get to the 
point where every vendor that a campus deals with is shib-enabled. A 
short-term strategy might be to move the bulk of the traffic to 
shib-enabled sites. The librarians here at Brown tell me that they 
conduct a user satisfaction survey every other year. For the last 
several cycles, off-campus access to resources has been number one in 
the "what services do you have problems with" category. Making access 
easier and more seamless for 85+% of the traffic has the potential of 
knocking off-campus access from its number one ranking.... ;-)

My sense is that the starting point is the "user access to external 
resources" use case, which involves EZProxy, Shibboleth, and vendors. 
Over time, tho, I wouldn't be surprised if this group moves on to use 
cases involving all of those other categories of vendors.