Are You Wrestling with Issues of User Authentication and Access?

Engage with NISO's Broad-based Community in Crafting the Best Possible Solution!

May 22-23, 2018, Baltimore, MD

Register today to attend this NISO Connections Live event and be an active participant in ensuring that any recommended set of solutions are based upon practical approaches for user privacy, interoperability and unencumbered access.

Digital Libraries: Authentication, Access & Security for Information Resources

The Grand, 225 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201

May 22-23, 2018

Engage with these expert voices:

• Ann West, Associate Vice President, Trust & Identity, Internet2
• Mark Beadles, Chief Information Security Officer, OARnet
• Cody Hanson, Director, Web Development, University of Minnesota
• Amy Pawlowski, Deputy Director, OhioLINK
• Jeremy Frumkin, Executive Director, Research Technologies, University of Arizona
• Theda M. Schwing, Catalog Coordinator, OhioLINK
• Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager, OCLC
• Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies
• Phil Leahy, Service Provider Relationship Manager, OpenAthens
• Heather Flanagan, Academic Pilot Coordinator, RA21
• Tim Lloyd, CEO, Liblynx
• Todd Digby, Chair, Library Information Technology, University of Florida
• Rich Wenger, E-Resources Systems Manager, MIT

The objective is to engage workshop participants in a full-throated discussion of how best to resolve the friction experienced by users in attempting to access key resources from any location, from any device. There are many facets to the issues of authenticating users. How much information about the user is required? How can the speedbumps be minimized? Users face a complex and frequently confusing authentication process, particularly when users are working outside of a library or institutional network. From the standpoint of institutional infrastructure, a number of work-around solutions have been implemented to address issues caused by IP-authentication, such as proxy servers, but each work-around presents its own set of issues and concerns.

This event is intended to bring together the broadest possible spectrum of stakeholders from the information community to address every group's concerns. What does campus IT think about the issues? Do their concerns differ dramatically from those working with patrons in the library? How should providers of information resources be approaching issues of access? The complexity of satisfying the needs of all constituencies deserves an intensive face-to-face discussion and your voice is needed.

Housing Accommodations: All attendees are responsible for their own hotel reservations. There is no room block associated with the event. Convenient accommodations may be found at:

• Embassy Suites Inner Harbor
• Lord Baltimore Hotel  
• Brookshire Suites Inner Harbor 

To rapidly register by credit card for this on-site event, use this link.

NISO Member Rates (NISO Voting and LSA Members, verify your status here)

Regular : $475.00

Non Member Rates

Regular $525.00

Student: $325.00

Have questions? Contact us!

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Baltimore, MD 21211-1948

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