InCommon Library Services

["Paul B. Hill" <>]

Hi,

> Paul, I am having a little difficulty understanding your scenario. 
>Are MIT and town library sharing the same ezproxy instance?

I don't think so, but I'm not in the MIT Library department so I don't 
know for sure.

The person that reported this to me is a resident of Sommerville, MA.

I'll try to get more details and pass them to Rich Wenger of the MIT 
Libraries so that we can determine what is rally happening.

> When a better and complete solution is available that allows guest users
> in a campus library access to licensed resources without needing to
> provide any credentials.  The ezproxy/shib combo gets us close to
> that solution.

I do understand that the use cases for library access is varied and 
complex. It will be interesting to see what solutions are proposed and 
feasible :)

Paul

David Kennedy wrote:
>  >>
>  >> 3) if the user is coming from a specified set of IP address ranges, 
> send
>  >> the user directly to the resource
>  >>
>  >
>  > From what I have heard, correctly configuring EZProxy for that case can
>  >actually be problematic.
>  >
>  >One of my co-workers recently pointed out the following problem. His
>  >town library uses EZProxy, as does MIT. His town library system prompts
>  >him for his library card number. From home, via the town library, he
>  >gets access to some material that MIT does not license. When he is on
>  >campus, he goes to the town library URL and enters his library card
>  >number. However, he ends up with the same access that he would have if
>  >he had started off at the MIT Library site. In other words, while on
>  >campus there are actually some resources that he cannot access.
>  >
>  > From home, he can access all of the resources that MIT provides access
>  >to, because he authenticates to the MIT Library system using a 
> certificate.
>
> Paul, I am having a little difficulty understanding your scenario.  Are
> MIT and town library sharing the same ezproxy instance?
>
>
>
>
>  >An increasing number of people in our campus populations use mobile
>  >devices that have wide area networking enabled, and hence are using an
>  >external carrier such as AT&T or Verizon. At what point do we say that
>  >access policy based on an IP address range is a waste of time and
>  >resources?
>
> When a better and complete solution is available that allows guest users
> in a campus library access to licensed resources without needing to
> provide any credentials.  The ezproxy/shib combo gets us close to
> that solution.
>
>
> -----
> David Kennedy
> Systems Programmer
> Perkins Library, Duke University
> (919) 613-6831