[LIBRARYDIR] Is anyone else angry about this????

Fri Sep 15 07:08:52 PDT 2017

THANK YOU WADE!!!!!
That helps immensely. Your clarification will go a long ways towards our anxiety of this.

Cheyenne M. Roduin
Library Director

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Phone: 425-235-2352, ext. 5571
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From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Guidry, Wade
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:52 PM
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Subject: {Spam?} Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Is anyone else angry about this????

I'd like to help clarify any misunderstanding, before the conversation goes too far.

The change being discussed only affects non-campus users. In other words, the change only impacts users who are not employees or students. And, even then, the change only affects institutions that provide service to community users, *and* that allow those users to log into Primo to place holds. This change does not impact the ability to circulate materials to community users, a workflow that does not require that user to authenticate.

For example, Cheyenne, at RTC, your employees and students use their campus network credentials for Primo (and presumably for EZProxy), so those users are not affected. The only users to be impacted would be community users. And of those, only community users that might log into Primo to place a hold.

More broadly speaking, Ex Libris is simply attempting to follow more generally accepted IT design principles of the 21st century. Namely, that identity and credential management (user accounts and passwords) should be treated as separate functions from services applications, like Alma and Primo.

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Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager
Big Bend Community College
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>

509.760.4474
www.bigbend.edu<http://www.bigbend.edu/>

Big Bend Community College * 7662 Chanute Street NE * Moses Lake, WA 98837-3299

WACTCLC Alma Instance: Alma NA02<http://status.exlibrisgroup.com/>
WACTCLC Primo Instance: Primo NA08<http://status.exlibrisgroup.com/>

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Ahniwa Ferrari
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 1:43 PM
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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] {Disarmed} RE: Is anyone else angry about this????

This doesn't impact GHC much if at all, but it also seems like a totally pointless move on Ex Libris's part given the information in that ELUNA link. Personally, I'd rather keep having the option of creating and using internal accounts, but I won't be outraged if they go away.

I am totally willing to be outraged on other peoples' behalves, though, if that would be useful.

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Ahniwa D. Ferrari
Associate Dean for Library, E-Learning, and Media Services
Grays Harbor College | 1620 Edward P. Smith Drive | Aberdeen, WA 98520

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From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Bates, Aryana
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Is anyone else angry about this????

Does this merit a strongly worded letter to Ex Libris?  Although it seems the decision has already been made, it appears the timeline was at least delayed as a result of "pushback by the customer base".  Not sure what else to do though.

Aryana Bates, MLS, PhD

Dean of the Library, eLearning, TLC

North Seattle College

aryana.bates at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:aryana.bates at seattlecolleges.edu>

206.934.3612

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From: LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> on behalf of Roduin, Cheyenne <croduin at rtc.edu<mailto:croduin at rtc.edu>>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:47:50 AM
To: WACTC Library Directors
Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] Is anyone else angry about this????

I am just a bit furious about this upcoming change. We just got it worked out that our students log into Primo/Alma and our databases with one set of credentials! And what if you don't use social media?

1.       The eventual removal of passwords on internal accounts in Alma

As we also discussed, Ex Libris has been making plans to drop support for passwords on internal accounts in Alma.

This will mean that, eventually, community users won't be able to log into Primo with internal accounts (for libraries that offer such service). Ex Libris has instead implemented support for social login using Facebook or Google accounts. Using Social Login, community users can log into Primo with their Facebook or Google credentials.

Ex Libris was originally looking to make this change by the middle of this year. But because of pushback by the customer base, the change has been delayed until some time in 2018. No more specific timeframe has yet been announced.

Here is a link to a brief report on the issue, as developed by the ELUNA working group leading the customer discussion with Ex Libris:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VskMr1I9FdsJ:documents.el-una.org/1441/1/AuthenticationFocusGroupReport_brief.docx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Cheyenne M. Roduin
Library Director

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3000 NE 4th St. Renton, WA 98056
Phone: 425-235-2352, ext. 5571
Email: croduin at RTC.edu<mailto:croduin at RTC.edu>
www.RTC.edu<http://www.rtc.edu/>

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