Re: [IUG] Using PIN or both PIN and barocode for patrons requesting materials via WebOPAC

[Gene Kenney <gkenney at bethel dot edu>]

Jeff,

Your information is great.  Thank you.  Did you ever consider using ezproxy, instead of ldap for authentication?  We are using ldap with OCLC products.  But, our ITS is retiring ldap, and moving to ezproxy.  If we decide on the PIN as our solution, I would like to contact you via the phone.  Would you please provide your contact information in an email to me? Thanks, again. Gene


Shalom (שָׁלוֹם),
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Gene Kenney
Library Technology Specialist &
Assistant System Administrator
Bethel University Library
Bethel University & Seminary
3900 Bethel Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55112
voice:651-635-8733
fax:  651-635-2393
email: gkenney at bethel dot edu 

Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; 
I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you
 a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause 
you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.


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From: innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org] On Behalf Of Campbell, Jeffrey D
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 2:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [IUG] Using PIN or both PIN and barocode for patrons requesting materials via WebOPAC

We use LDAP as our primary method of authentication but we do provide
patrons with the option to authenticate via their last name, barcode (we
call this the PID), and PIN.  Our community user must authenticate using
the PIN method.  See our patron verification page:
https://webcat.lib.unc.edu/patroninfo~S1/

The pin method works well other than the often initial confusion in
setting the PIN up.  If a patron has never logged into My Millennium, they
set the PIN during their first login attempt.  This is confusing to some
of our patrons at first but isn't a big deal most of the time.

Staff can change or delete the PIN if a patron forgets the PIN number
(that's the biggest headache associated with using PINS) but there is a
"reset your pin" option now included in the Web OPAC so that has taken a
lot of burden off staff having to do this for patrons.  Page  # 107429 in
the manual discusses this option.

I'm happy to discuss the function over the phone if you need more
information.

Jeff  



On 2/26/11 2:27 PM, "Gene Kenney" <gkenney at bethel dot edu> wrote:

>I would like to hear from anyone who have their patrons use a pin # to
>request materials in the WebOPAC.  We are looking at this option.  We use
>barcode number at this time. I am interested in how the pin # is
>generated. Does the staff produce it, or does the patron produce it? Is
>it easy for the patron to reset the pin, or recover it, if they forget
>their pin?  Thanks, Gene
>
>
>Shalom (שָׁלוֹם),
>--
>Gene Kenney
>Library Technology Specialist &
>Assistant System Administrator
>Bethel University Library
>Bethel University & Seminary
>3900 Bethel Drive
>St. Paul, Minnesota 55112
>voice:651-635-8733
>fax:  651-635-2393
>email: gkenney at bethel dot edu
>
>Ezekiel 36:26-27
>I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;
>I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you
> a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause
>you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
>
>
>
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