InCommon News January 5, 2010
In This Issue:
- InCommon Library Services Webinar Jan. 15
- New Participants
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Happy New Year from InCommon
InCommon continued its growth during 2009, ending the year with 195 participants - including 142 higher education participants, 47 sponsored partners and six government and non-profit research organizations. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for making InCommon such a vibrant and expanding community.
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InCommon Library Services Webinar Jan. 15
How can a library use Shibboleth and EZProxy together to better integrate licensed resources with your library software environment? How can newly developed best practices help resource providers and libraries better integrate single sign-on and federated access?
Get the answer to these and other questions from the InCommon Library Services Collaboration webinar, Friday, January 15, 2010 at 1 p.m. (EST). David Kennedy, an application developer at Duke University Libraries and chair of the collaboration's vendor subgroup, will give a brief technical overview of the Best Practices developed by the collaboration and demonstrate how Shibboleth and EZProxy can be used together to better integrate licensed resources into your library software environment.
Library technical services staff, as well as librarians familiar with federating technology, should find this webinar helpful.
The webinar will help prepare your library for the changes ahead, such as personalization services provided by licensed resource providers, and demonstrate ways to overcome the challenges of your library managing IP addresses to provide access control. David will also give updates on vendors joining InCommon.
David Kennedy has more than 11 years experience working in information technology in academic university libraries. Over the last two years, he has been a member of the InCommon Library Services Collaboration, and currently chairs the vendor subgroup. He is also a member of the NISO SSO Authentication Working Group.
You can find background information on the group's work on the wiki:https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inclibrary/Vendor+Subgroup
The presentation will use Adobe Connect to share slides and Internet2's eDial service for audio. Here are the details:
Library Collaboration Webinar
Friday, January 15, 2010
1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 11 a.m. MST / 10 a.m. PST
Call-in numbers:
+1-734-615-7474 (preferred from any phone where long distance has no additional cost to the caller)
+1-866-411-0013 (toll-free in the US/Canada; please use only if you incur additional long-distance charges by dialing the 734 number)
Access code: 0122004#
Adobe Connect: http://internet2.acrobat.com/inclibrary/
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New Participants
Since December 1, these identity providers and services providers have joined InCommon:
Identity Providers:
- Baylor University (www.baylor.edu)
- California Maritime Academy (www.csum.edu)
- California State University, Channel Islands (www.csuci.edu)
- California State University, San Marcos (www.csusm.edu)
- University of South Dakota (www.usd.edu)
- Whitman College (www.whitman.edu)
Service Providers:
- Zimride (www.zimride.com)
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About Zimride
Zimride combines social networks and a proprietary route-matching algorithm to allow friends, classmates and coworkers to arrange for ride-sharing. Zimride focuses on college, university and corporate communities to build a critical mass of users.
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