From: "Mason, Dorothy L (Dorothy)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:45:57 +0000

Amy--

While we are not a university, we do have various locations for my
corporation and have experienced the same issue with some vendors
requiring registration for each corporate site.  We still have sites,
but our proxy system is such that we have dynamic IP assignment
whenever users login.  With that we can no longer guarantee that an IP
a user is on today will match his physical business site location.  He
may be in NJ, but his IP connection may be from another state.  As
such, we moved to the license everything for enterprise use.

Thanks much!!!


Dorothy L. Mason | Digital Content Manager | InfoView
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Amy Lynn Fry <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:12:38 +0000
>
> Does anyone out there have what are considered branch campuses? What
> is your strategy for licensing and proxying?
>
> One of our university’s colleges is located in a different town from
> the rest of our physical campus (it’s not actually a branch campus,
> it’s a college, but it’s kind of branch-y). They have a library that
> is not quite separate yet not quite part of the main library. Not all
> of our resources are licensed for use by the students of this college.
>
> Up until now we’ve been using WAM proxy, from Innovative, which has
> allowed us to establish, through the patron database, who has access
> to which resources. Now we are trying to implement EZProxy, which our
> library systems manager says does not have the same capability. Since
> we only have one pool of IPs for off-campus and wireless users, we
> can’t limit resources by IP range.
>
> I’m wondering what other libraries do if you have a similar situation.
> In a very informal and unscientific poll of my Facebook friends, it
> sounds like most places with branches license everything for all
> users. I’d love to hear back from you liblicensers to hear whether
> this is what you do or not and, if not, what you do instead. I want us
> to move to EZProxy very much, but I’m not sure there’s staff to
> support two completely separate setups for these two locations, and
> I’m not sure if there’s money to re-license what currently doesn’t
> include the second location.
>
> Thanks so much for your help!
>
> Amy
>
> Amy Fry
> Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator
> Bowling Green State University
> Jerome Library
> Bowling Green, OH 43403
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