InCommon Library Services

[David Kennedy <>]

The vendor subgroup of the InCommon Library Collaboration has been 
working for a number of weeks to develop a coordinated approach to 
encourage library resource providers to join the federation.

As one starting point, we have identified 17 resource providers that are 
members of the UK access management federation, but are not members of 
InCommon.

We have developed a survey to help identify universities that may have 
contracts with these providers and/or be interested in federating. The 
survey also asks for other vendors that you would like to see federate 
their services.

The idea is to develop a list of libraries interested in working 
together to encourage vendors to adopt Shibboleth (or other SAML-based 
technology) or extend their current Shib instance to include federated 
access to materials. It has been the experience of InCommon, and other 
federations that action can occur when enough of a service's clients 
make the request.

The survey will take just a few minutes of your time and will be very 
valuable in helping us begin to reach out to library service providers.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=wGlEYsyiVnJgw01abx28xQ_3d_3d

Sincerely,

David Kennedy


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David Kennedy
Application Developer
Perkins Library, Duke University
(919) 613-6831