Re: [IUG] LDAP: unanticipated consequences

[Carol Watson <cwatson at uga dot edu>]

The implementation staff told me that a patron had to either be 
associated with an LDAP authentication or not.  In other words, if a 
patron type is associated with LDAP authentication then that patron type 
can no longer log in with the patron barcode/id number.   Are your 
patron types that are associated with LDAP authentication able to use 
the right hand side of the screen to login as well? 

Carol Watson
University of Georgia Law Library

Brice Austin wrote:

> Hi Gail,
>
> We don't use the Innovative ILL product, but belong to an INN REACH
> consortium for which this issue sometimes comes up.  We have a dual
> authentication screen, which you can see at:
>
> https://libraries.colorado.edu/patroninfo~S3
>
> We set this up so that some non-campus users who don't have "identikeys"
> could still place orders but it has the added benefit of allowing us to
> place orders for patrons using the right side of the screen as we do have
> access to last name and ID number (this particular screen also requests a
> PIN, but the INN REACH authorization page does not).
>
> This could be one possible solution for you, I suppose.
>
> Brice
>
>
>
>
> Brice Austin
> Head, University Libraries Access Services
> UCB 184
> University of Colorado, Boulder
> Boulder, CO 80309-0184
> (303) 492-3975 
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> [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Bonath, Gail
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:30 AM
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> Subject: [IUG] LDAP: unanticipated consequences
>
>
> We recently installed LDAP on our system so that patrons use their
> campus network username and password instead of their name and campus ID
> number for authenticattion for e-reserves, ILL requests, etc.
>
> The problem:  Student assistants can no longer put in ILL requests or
> book purchase requests for the faculty members they work for.  Faculty,
> reasonably enough, do not want to give out their passwords to their
> campus accounts.  Students do not want to have faculty ILL books checked
> out on their accounts. We want to know which faculty member requested a
> book so that we can notify them when they are cataloged.
>
> How have other libraries who have LDAP handled this?  
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Gail J. Bonath
> Grinnell College Libraries  
>
>
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