From: "Laughtin-Dunker, Kristin" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:28:55 +0000

Hi Amy,

We tend to license everything for all users.  However, we do have two
colleges that are located in a different city (on one campus), as
well, though we don't consider it a branch campus since it is under
the same overall administration and relies on the main library, not
having its own.  For right now, at least, we have them access
everything through EZ Proxy.

However, as they are all health science programs, they require very
specialized resources, and some of the vendors required us to restrict
access to just them.  Since they are accessing resources the same way
as off-campus users, we cannot restrict access by IP range.  Instead,
we post the links to these resources in the Blackboard portals for
their programs, so that our general users cannot see they exist.  We
direct patrons to go to Blackboard in our catalog records, database
A-Z list, and subject guides.  It's clunky and annoying, but it's the
best we could do since these resources were needed for accreditation
and the vendors were unwilling to negotiate.

Obviously this wouldn't work as well in your case, since it seems that
your secondary campus needs to be restricted from the resources
licensed for your more general population, as opposed to the other way
around.  Do they add a significant portion to your FTE?  If not, it
may not be too much trouble to renegotiate.  I'm interested to hear
what others have done in similar scenarios.

Thanks!
-Kristin

Kristin Laughtin-Dunker
Scholarly Communications & Digital Collections Librarian
Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University
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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 [log in to unmask]