[IUG] Self registration and restricted access resources WAS Re: Patron Self-Registration add-on?

["Bob Duncan" <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:49:08 -0700
 "Fifarek, Aimee" <afifarek at scottsdaleaz dot gov> wrote:
> I like the program reg add on because it is fully integrated with
> Millennium.  Customers who register have instant access to resources
> with no staff involvement at all - if you want it to be that way.  Since
> it uses patron record templates and patron types you have control over
> how little or how much you want "online patrons" to have access to...

I've asked Aimee this off-list in the past, but I'm curious about how other 
libraries define patrons---for those libraries that have patron 
self-registration and WAM and give self-registering patrons instant access to 
subscription resources...how does that fit into your license agreements?  In 
academic libraries our vendors are incredibly clear about who can have access 
from off-campus;  do those same vendors not care as much when it comes to 
public libraries, or are they not worried about the occasional sleaze who's 
become an online "patron" at several public libraries so he can look up his 
distant relatives in genealogy resources that academic libraries typically 
don't subscribe to?  For public libraries, how are library patrons defined in 
the license agreements?

Bob Duncan

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David Bishop Skillman Library
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
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