<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Hi all -- mostly questions, and part rant. </div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
We, being people at a higher pay grade than me, are considering moving authentication of our resources to Shibboleth which is used by other parts of our university in other (non-library) areas. Importantly, we (the library) would NOT be managing Shibboleth
- that would be handled by the university's IT department, which gives me chills to be honest.
<br>
<br>
Currently we use WAM (yes, still -- I really, REALLY wish we'd move to EZProxy but that is another story and in the end, we may in fact just get EZProxy, if I have any say in that matter). We are obviously keeping WAM and/or EZProxy because not all of our
resources will allow Shibboleth authentication. </div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
In any case, here are my questions -- (note - I am not a Shibboleth expert and really don't have that knowledge and skill in this area). </div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<ol>
<li>Are you an "Innovative library" using Sierra who also uses Shibboleth to authenticate users?</li><li>If so, did you need to purchase anything else to make Shibboleth authentication work with the library resources?</li><li>Did you encounter any issues with Sierra and Shibboleth or any of your resources and Shibboleth (those that allow authentication with Shibboleth)? <br>
</li></ol>
<div>Anything else you'd like to offer is fine. I'm specifically looking for Innovative libraries, but if you use a different ILS, that's okay too, I'll take your comments as well. Thanks for listening! </div>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div id="Signature">
<div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size:16pt">Beth</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Beth M. Johns, MLIS</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-size:12pt">E-Resources Librarian</span><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Saginaw Valley State University</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Melvin J. Zahnow Library<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">pronouns: she/her/hers</span><br>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>