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Hi everyone,</div>
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Sorry for cross-posting,</div>
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Like many of you, I have spent countless hours manually clicking through proxy links just to make sure our databases are actually working for students off-campus. There is nothing more frustrating than finding out a vendor changed their platform or an authentication
stanza broke only <i>after</i> a stressed student submits a helpdesk ticket from home.</div>
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Working in an academic library setting, I finally got tired of the manual clicking and decided to build something to automate this daily grind. I’m calling it LibPages Lighthouse.</div>
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It essentially acts as an automated staff member. It logs in and verifies access exactly like a patron would, catching outages proactively.</div>
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<b>I have attached a quick demo video to this email so you can see exactly how it works under the hood.</b> In the demo, you can watch the agent run, navigate a proxy login, validate access for a couple of publishers (AIP and BMJ), and update the dashboard.</div>
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Here is a quick look at how it fits into our specific library workflows:</div>
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<b>Off-Campus & Proxy Validation:</b> Lighthouse runs through your EZproxy, OpenAthens or any proxy tool setup to validate that off-campus access is actively working and the vendor page loads. (It can also test direct on-campus IP access).</div>
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<b>Publisher-Friendly & Lightweight:</b> To simulate normal patron usage, it only runs once a day per resource. There is no web scraping and zero unnecessary file downloads—it strictly asserts that the authentication was successful and the resource is up.</div>
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<b>Flexible Execution:</b> You run the testing agent directly from your managed off-campus network or a designated PC, meaning the traffic looks completely normal to vendors.</div>
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<b>Subscription Tracking:</b> I added a feature to attach expiry dates to specific publisher tests, so it notifies you before a subscription lapses.</div>
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While I am launching this as a commercial SaaS platform, right now I am looking for a few fellow library folks to be early adopters. I would love for you to test it out on your proxy setup and give me some honest feedback.
<b>As a thank you for participating and helping shape the tool, I will be providing all early adopters with an extended free month of full access once the testing phase wraps up.</b></div>
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If you are interested in letting Lighthouse handle your daily access checks, you can check out the onboarding details here:
<a href="https://lighthouse.libpages.com/onboarding" id="OWA859ae553-90eb-fd55-eace-011f2d8745d9" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://lighthouse.libpages.com/onboarding</a></div>
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Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions. I would love to hear your thoughts!</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Hosam</div>
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<a href="https://lighthouse.libpages.com/" id="OWA12a1ba63-47b1-4d61-13c7-f29ed7aef88f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://lighthouse.libpages.com/</a></div>
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