Slides for my presentation at the University of Kingston partners day, 13th July 2009, on our new LRC and implementation of federated access

1. Tom Roper, Head of
Learning Resources
New LRC and federated access

2. South Thames
College
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3. New College
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4. Features
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• Presentation rooms
• Colour-coded subject • Internet café
zones, adjacent to • Information skills teaching
teaching areas area
• Mixture of provision for • Staff work area
different learning styles,
social and solitary
• Central contact point on
each floor (joint staffing on
2nd floor)
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5. New LRC
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6. Federated access
• No history of widespread
Athens use
• Different ideas about what
federated access is for
• Consultancy: Salford Software
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7. JISC RSC survey (Nov
08)
• 78% of London FE Colleges
had joined the UK Federation
• Yet of those who had signed
up a third had no solution in
place
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8. Audit
• May 2008: audit of existing
subscriptions, only one not
committed to Shibboleth
compliance (one new sub
since)
• Installation: 24 November
2008
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9. A year later, some of
it works, but…
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10. Some doesn’t
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11. Still some way to go
• Users still challenged for
multiple logins
• See Andy Powell on usability:
• Does anyone care?
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12. To follow up
• JISC Federated Access pages
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/federation
• Making the UK Federation usable
http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2009/06/lets-ge
• Libraries of the future
http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/
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