Sorry for any cross-posting
This is becoming a "hot topic"!
Such systems as exist require the use of User Access Management and
Authentication techniques which allow access to a user database, such as exists
within the Library Management system (LMS) - trouble is, obtaining access to
that database for applications which are not related to it!
Self-Issue machines are related, as is connection to Internet based subscription
services for users not in our buildings.
Epixtech have "Remote Patron Authentication", which goes some way towards this -
other suppliers vary, if they do it at all.
Some Third Party providers such as Fenwood/Esprit are providing "Proxy Server"
solutions which are moving towards this.
The Academic Sector handles this in a number of ways, and there is a
Mailbase/JISCMail list to cover this sort of thing, run from the LITC at
Southbank University, called, unsurprisingly, "Authentication", which is worth a
look - http://www.JISCMail.ac.uk
Think we all, public libraries and system suppliers need effective solutions to
this, soon!
Regards
John
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John Usher "I'd rather be Flying!"
ICT Development Librarian
Islington Library & Information Service
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Subject: Monitoring public use of internet access
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Date: 14/12/00 15:43
As part of our "People's Network" strategy, we need to monitor the kind of
use - morally-acceptable and otherwise - made of our public-access internet
points.
Questionnaires, however brief, are of limited use. The ideal, to my mind,
woild be a system whereby a user logs onto the computer by means of scanning
his/her reader's ticket. A programme on board could then not only record the
user's identity but also the use made of the facility -
internet/word-processing/spreadsheets etc.
Does anyone know of such a system currently in use?
Many thanks.
Alun Williams
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