Comments on: ALA Annual 2010: The Trip Report

By: James Kennedy

James Kennedy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:24:12 +0000

Ah… We chatted at The Liaison for a while Sunday night during ALA. It was good chatting with you.

I’ve not been on your blog in quite a while (work’s been busy) that I didn’t know you’d changed positions– and I was so exhausted (ALA was very much a working conference for me) that I didn’t put two and two together until now…

By: David Fiander

David Fiander — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:17:12 +0000

Not EB1, EBL. They require all users to authenticate so that they can keep track of how much each user prints, to ensure that nobody prints more than a permissible amount of any title.

We did it by setting up a local system that does the authentication and passes a unique, opaque, token to EBL. They can tell how much stuff user 16934 has printed, but they don’t have any information about who that user is.

They’re much stricter than the publishers that we deal with, but that’s because they’re an aggregator. Just like ProQuest has embargoes with the publishers, EBL has its own restrictions.

By: Eileen O'Shea

Eileen O'Shea — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:34:49 +0000

Re: ipad. You should try the Apple bluetooth keyboard with it. Makes for an awesomely improved typing experience.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:29:52 +0000

That’s a very odd requirement! Who is EB1?

By: sammy

sammy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:21:24 +0000

We have been buying more and more ebooks here, however, we ran into a bit of an issue with EBl, who after signing with them, demanded that we have users authenticate on campus (as well as off), and tie the authentication with user info.

We are at an impasse with them over this right now.

By: John Tomlinson

John Tomlinson — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:23:33 +0000

UNC Chapel Hill uses ContentDM. Rebecca Vargha talked about their experience with it at the SLA annual conference.

By: Marnie Oakes

Marnie Oakes — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:25:56 +0000

Still remember words of wisdom from Pat Wagner at a workshop 25??? years ago at ALA in NYC. I’ve retired but I guess she hasn’t.

By: jmignault

jmignault — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:27:43 +0000

Hi, we’re a CONTENTdm site, and I’d be really interested in learning more about the libraries involved in the demo and how they were using CONTENTdm. Can you point me to any info?