When I was working toward my MLS from Emporia State University (Kansas) more than 5 years ago, I often used the library at the University of Kansas since it was close to where I lived.  Being that both schools were state universities, they had reciprocal agreements to allow their respective cardholders access and privileges.  I do recall being able to sign in and get a temporary code to use their computers for a short period of time each day (1-3 hours) also to access to at least some segment of their databases.

 

I don’t know if things have changed since that time or what specific agreements they might have had with their vendors to permit this type of usage.  I also don’t remember if I could have accessed all online resources or if there were limitations.  I am pretty sure that this access agreement was walk-in only and wouldn’t have let me use those resources remotely.

 

Hope this helps.

 

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Subject: [SERIALST] question about digital serials access

 

Hello everyone,

I am in my first term at the iSchool at Syracuse, so do forgive me if this question is naïve. I would like to know if it is possible to give unaffiliated users access to electronic serials at a very large academic library? 

 

I want to research the practicalities of implementing, for unaffiliated users such as visiting scholars, a system similar to the alumni library cards universities like Columbia and Yale have in place. I am an alumna of Barnard College, so I have friends with Columbia library cards, and I live in New Haven with friends who work at Yale Libraries, so I am also aware of Yale’s policies. Would it be possible to offer a paid library card system for unaffiliated users that would also offer access to electronic journals? Perhaps a limited number of these, to assure only a specific and measurable increase in users to subscription serials? I am thinking specifically of a university like Yale, where these cards and their users would constitute a very small number, compared to the total number of users. My professor fears that vendors would not consider this idea to be at all appealing, and would reject it out of hand. She suggested that I contact members of this list, as you are the experts!

 

Any ideas or suggestions would be incredibly helpful! I am at a stage in my research where I can be very flexible, so please send anything and everything my way.

 

Thanks in advance,

Anne-Marie


Anne-Marie Lindsey

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