Federated Access Management Webinar 020409

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Federated Access Management Webinar02/04/09

• Liz Tromans
• Library and Learning Resources Manager, Halesowen
  College

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About Halesowen College

• Approximately 3,800 FT students
• 379 FTE Staff
• IT Services Team 15 FTE
• Library and Learning Resource Centre Team 11 FTE
• Operates over 3 sites
• Part of Halesowen Education Consortium
• University Partnerships

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Background

• Classic Athens user since 2000
• Looked at AthensDA in 2004
• Options for access to resources after July 2008
  chose Shibboleth
• On going quest to reduce number of usernames and
  passwords
• Collaboration and partnership working

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Advantages of FAM

• Library Staff
• Reduced administration
• No subscription fee
• Enables access to a wide range of resources
• Single sign on
• Ease of use
• IP authenticated resources
• Non IP authenticated resources

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Advantages of FAM cont.

• Technical Staff
• Desire to keep control in house
• Fairly well developed directory
• Good level of internal expertise
• Management and IT Services Team comfortable with
  open source software
• Protection of privacy and security
• Reduced administration
• No hardware/software costs
• Federation/certificates
• External help available
• Enables access to other resources
• Future advantages

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Disadvantages of FAM

• Library Staff
• Not all resources are available through FAM
• Links to Athens
• Different login information
• Technical Staff
• Initial set-up

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Key issues during and after implementation

• Responsibilities during implementation
• Information required for resource providers
• Not all resources are available through FAM
• Different login information
• Advertising

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Cost/time implications

• Internal implementation
• Library Staff
• Technical Staff
• External implementation

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How access to resources via FAM is managed
internally

• Senior Library and Learning Resource Centre
  Assistant (E-Learning)
• Library Resources Page on Intranet
• Library Course on Moodle
• Help Guide

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Impact on e-resources usage

• Statistics

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Contingency

• Budgeted to continue with Athens
• Planned to do it anyway!

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Lessons Learned

• Investigate what is right for your organisation
• Use all the support available
• Get stakeholders on side
• Library and Learning Resources Team
• IT Support Team
• ILT staff
• Keep the project on the radar

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Questions?