• the book business has always had an aura of crisis and gloom. It’s the Eeyore of industries
• Take a leaf from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and educate readers that Sharing Is Bad
• ’s not at all clear that preventing sharing would be good for business
• There’s no stopping it, short of mass book burnings
• the buyer can’t share them and can’t sell them
• news of the latest ebook revolution has been met with either horror or delight,
• rather than learn from the mistakes of the music business, book publishers seem poised to repeat them—with restrictive digital rights management (DRM), a sluggish if not hostile response to digital media, and a tendency to ignore consumer preferences.
• Times have changed

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• Webcast: Returning the Researcher to the Library: A Series in Four  Parts
• slow, but steady disintermediation of the library from the research process
• explores how libraries are taking back their role as the starting point for  research by focusing on the user experience and supporting it with innovative  technology

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• he would rather quit his job than work with Blackboard's software.
• course-management software has become a new kind of campus building 
• Colleges don't want to just buy these online classrooms out of a catalog. They want to feel like partners in the design process.
• That might make good business sense, but it casts the company as a hostile force in higher education.
• emotions aside, colleges will benefit from having a strong, stable company selling them online classrooms.
• it plans to incorporate the best aspects of Angel 
• Blackboard's deep pockets (it bought Angel for $95-million, mostly in cash) make it better able to build the complex systems
• happy customers don't post clever messages
• In the end, he said, colleges will choose Blackboard over open-source options because buying software works better for most colleges than being part of a do-it-yourself project, which he said takes more staff time to customize. "I really don't believe it makes sense," he said. And he said Blackboard essentially has more programmers devoted full time to its software than open-source projects do. His basic message: We'll win because we're better.

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• EZproxy so that it performs all direct user interaction during authentication, then calls upon a user provided script to interpret whether or not the username and password are valid.
• CGI User Authentication in which all aspects of handling authentication, including user interaction, must be performed by your own script.
• Here is an example of a simple PHP external script that checks a username and password against a MySQL database.

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  User authentication    <!-- /crumbs -->   <!-- component to set surrounding div to color scheme -->     CGI Authentication
• provide your own script for authenticating users in real-time
• EZproxy should automatically tack on "url=" followed by the URL the user was trying to reach
• Assuming that this script authenticates the user, the script then connects back to the EZproxy server and sends the username "someuser" with the password "somepass" to request that EZproxy create a new session for the newly authenticated user.
• When using CGI authentication, the EZproxy server never handles any of your user authentication information directly

• Data flow

     

   The exact data flow used in performing CGI authentication is documented on a separate web page at CGI Authentication Data Flow  

  Reference scripts

• Groups

    

   Normally, when your custom CGI script sends the user back to EZproxy with a Ticket URL, the Ticket URL should indicate all groups for which the user should be authorized for access. If you want to handle inadequate group access separately, your entry in user.txt/ezproxy.usr can look like this: 

    

   ::CGI=http://auth.yourlib.org/ezpauth.cgi?url=^U&logup=^L 

    

   The ^L will be replaced by "true" if the user is trying to access a resource outside of group assignment and "false" during an initial authentication. This version demonstrates the use of url=^U to provide the original URL requested. Your script may be able to use this information along with a value of "true" for logup to determine a particular course of action when giving the user feedback that access is unavailable. 

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• access circulation from any computer with an Internet connection. In addition to mobility of use, LS2 Circ includes self-checkout functions.

• Exclusively offered in TLC's Library•Solution and CARL•X integrated library systems.

• and users from the
• community
• Library serves the faculty, students, and staff
• Public stations, with access to the Internet, are provided as a service to our primary users in fulfillment of their patient care, research, and education needs.  Use of public stations is limited to the fulfillment of these objectives.
• require user sign-in
• users without ePass accounts) by registering for Guest Passes at the Circulation Desk

• Time Limit

   

  Use of Guest Passes on public stations is limited to 1 hour. 
• The primary purpose of public computer workstations is to support teaching, learning, and research through access to the Libraries collections, databases, and to other online information resources. In order to protect all library users' right of access to all information resources, to ensure the safety of users and staff, and to protect library resources and facilities from damage, the University Libraries may sometimes place restrictions on the time, place, or manner of access to library computer workstations. The University Libraries make every effort to insure that its policies and procedures governing the use of all library facilities and resources are not in violation of the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights.

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• • The first priority for SSU Library computer usage is to provide access to information resources that support the learning, scholarship, and research of its students and faculty.
   
  • Second priority is the support of other types of use that either directly or indirectly support the educational, research and service missions of the University. Reasonable and limited personal communication falls within this category.
   
  • Third and lowest priority is given to recreational use by individuals affiliated with SSU, including generalized use of the Internet insofar as such use is of an incidental nature and does not place a burdensome load on resources. Authorized academic use of computing resources by the general public may also be considered appropriate on a case-by-case basis.
   
  • Commercial use is strictly forbidden.
• inappropriate use
• Recreational or non-academic use of computing resources by individuals unaffiliated with SSU or the CSU System (i.e. 'gaming', MySpace, IMing, etc.)
• requests for computer support by individuals unaffiliated with SSU or the CSU System
• unauthorized usage of Library computing resources by individuals unaffiliated with SSU or the CSU System
• the University Library adheres to the American Library Association's published Library Bill of Rights

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  De-Mystifying the Licensing of Electronic Resources: A Glossary of License Terms

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• Authentication - A process by which a computer system verifies the identity of a user accessing the system or source of communication.
• Public access terminal - A library workstation located in a public area for which there is no restriction on access by type of user.

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• Core Technology Competencies for Libraries,  LITA guide #15 published by Neal Schuman, and available in the ALA store at Midwinter, Susan Thompson addresses the core skills and requirements to look for when hiring and training staff.
• emonstrated best practices in technology competency
• tools in this book will help staff that work hard to also “work smart”

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• listen to what others are saying
• let them know that I am learning from THEM
• they are interested in talking, but not interested in listening
• Any editor who says they don't have time to do these kinds of things is working on the wrong things
• Make no judgments about any service until you've tried it yourself
• converse with people much smarter than you
• Learning the social networking skills and establishing that online presence is an investment in your future.
• You don't need to know them, you don't need a fancy title, you don't need an introduction. You simply need to ask a question
• establish yourself as a person. A real person
• News & Record Editor: Social Web is a 'Cocktail Party' That's Improved the Paper
• News & Record Editor: Social Web is a 'Cocktail Party' That's Improved the Paper
• take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media
• you can meet new people, hear great stories, learn valuable things

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• In the future, when every phone becomes a smartphone, the usability of the  mobile web probably won't seem so bad.
• connection speed makes *that* much of a difference