Adventures In Second Life Coming Soon

I finally have my new password. There has been some problems on my side getting to the blog.

Soon I will be writing about my adventures in Second Life.

While I have been away from the blog, I have been working on authenticating our patrons to use the on-line databases available through the Library.

We are migrating our proxy service to Athens. Athens is produced by the UK non-profit EduServ. Athens has been used for many years as the choice for UK institutions to authenticate their users. We and our patrons have fallen "in love" with the service.

Recently, I did a poster presentation at the PALINET 07 Conference in Baltimore concerning Athens.

It is quickly becoming the choice for our patrons in accessing e-resources from th ehome and office. The MyAthens personal accounts allows them to create a favorites list of the resources they most use.

We were the seventh institution in the USA to implement Athens. We are happy.

Now if only all our vendors would become Athens compliant.

Fo more information on Athens, see the website http://www.athensams.net/ .

Take Care,
Mark