1. David Kennedy, UMD Shibboleth and Library Resources Internet2 Library/Shibboleth Project

2. David Kennedy, UMD What is the Library/Shibboleth Project? Established 2007 Five universities + Internet2 Campus IT, Library IT, Librarians

3. David Kennedy, UMD Library concerns with Shibboleth enabled electronic resources Communication with campus IT Privacy Privacy with individual vendors Privacy across vendors Session persistence Walk-in users Library patron database integration

4. David Kennedy, UMD Electronic resources background Ten years of growth Prevalence of home computing Increase in distance education Convenience and user expectation Hundreds of vendors, thousands of resources Significant part of the library collection budget Access and use restrictions Substantial work to integrate this seamlessly

5. David Kennedy, UMD Electronic resource challenges Remote access is problematic Maintaining IPs is time consuming and unreliable

6. David Kennedy, UMD Focus of Library/Shibboleth Access control and licensed electronic resources Identify user scenarios Document business practice and technology issues Test solutions

7. David Kennedy, UMD Technologies Shibboleth EZproxy mod_auth_location

8. David Kennedy, UMD What is Shibboleth? Open source standards-based web single sign-on package Leverages local identity management system Enables access to campus and external applications Protects users’ privacy Helps your service partners Plays well with others

9. David Kennedy, UMD Shibboleth’s benefits Single sign on E-resource personalization Usage statistics Reduction in trouble tickets

10. David Kennedy, UMD What is EZproxy? Server side proxy (URL rewriting) Proxy access for off-campus resources Inexpensive Library-focused SSO authentication

11. David Kennedy, UMD EZproxy’s benefits On/off campus consistency Persistent URL Hybrid solution Single place where you point your URLs! Simple URL creation

12. David Kennedy, UMD What is mod_auth_location? Apache module Guest authentication by location (IP) Used in conjunction with Shib

13. David Kennedy, UMD mod_auth_location’s benefits Local IP management Walk in user limitations Override “guest” access

14. David Kennedy, UMD What are the benefits? Benefits to users Single sign on Personalization Benefits to librarians Manage IP’s locally (mod_auth_location) Support Benefit to library administration Tracking of usage

15. David Kennedy, UMD Maryland as Case Study Implemented Shibboleth 2005 Shibboleth enabled library services Metalib, Aleph, ILLiad, EZproxy, (SFX) SSO with electronic resources Persistent URLs though EZproxy Campus integration projects Blackboard, Portal

16. David Kennedy, UMD What can you do? Get EZproxy! Implement Shibboleth locally Explore local issues and concerns with your library Pilot existing SSO vendors Discuss interest in SSO to commercial vendors

17. David Kennedy, UMD Next steps – Library/Shibboleth Project Recommending best practices and solutions to common use cases Conducting pilots to validate approaches Encourage adoption of Shibboleth by US institutions and libraries Community information sharing

18. David Kennedy, UMD Shibboleth-enabled information providers American Chemical Society Atlas (ILLiad/ARES) Atypon CSA EBSCO Elsevier Science Direct Ex Libris EZprozy JSTOR Literary Encyclopedia OCLC WorldCAT OVID/SilverPlatter Project MUSE Proquest Safari (underway) SCRAN Serials Solutions Springer Thomson Gale Thomson ISI (underway)

19. David Kennedy, UMD More information https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/Library+Pilot davekenn@umd.edu