1. Customized Access Authorization By Phil Boyer and Wei Wu Washington Research Library Consortium

2. Washington Research Library Consortium 901 Commerce Drive Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 301-390-2000 www.wrlc.org American WRLC Catholic University of DC Marymount Gallaudet George Washington George Mason

3. Marymount University The Washington Research Library Consortium George Mason University WRLC American University Catholic University University of DC Gallaudet University George Washington University Washington, DC Total 7 member libraries

4. WRLC Members l Seven universities in the Washington DC metropolitan area l 5 private and 2 public l Total 75,000 students (head count) (Largest has 20,000; smallest has 2,000) l Total about 5 million volumes (Largest has 1.4 million; smallest has 170,000)

5. WRLC Members Share l Collections l Computer technology l Facilities

6. WRLC Programs Reciprocal Borrowing Shared Electronic Library System Cooperative Collection Development Offsite Storage WRLC Virtual Library

7. WRLC Reciprocal Borrowing Program l Students, faculty and staff may borrow from any member library using their own university ID l Patrons may return items to any member library l All patrons are registered in a single shared patron file

8. WRLC Electronic Resource Subscriptions l Core databases are available to all members (general periodical indexes, newspaper abstracts, full article images) l Members may subscribe to supplemental (optional) databases, to be accessed from the shared computing system l WRLC can serve as the contracting agent for supplemental subscriptions, to secure consortial pricing where available

9. From campus networksTo and from the INTERNET Wide-area network supporting approx. 750 simultaneous users WRLC ALADIN System Overview Over 700 stations in member libraries T-1 circuits Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 6000 and 4000s Servers at WRLC

10. Notis VSAM Patron File IBM Mainframe SiteSearch 3.x CGI IBM AIX SNA AssemblerPerl C Korn shell User ID Patron Groups

11. Voyager Oracle Patron Table Sun Solaris SiteSearch 3.x CGI IBM AIX Socket Perl C Korn shell User ID Patron Groups

12. Migration from SiteSearch 3 to 4 l Preserve the current “look and feel” l No logo menu, the patron sees either a list of databases or a logon screen l Go production in 60 days l Change the locally mounted databases to UMI and OVID

13. Voyager Oracle Patron Table Sun Solaris SiteSearch 4.x Access Sun Solaris SQLNet Java JDBC User ID Patron Groups

14. www.aladin.wrlc.org index.html l “Refresh” to the following URL: /www.aladin.wrlc.org/WebZ/WRLCConnect:sessionid=0 l If the browser can’t handle the “refresh”, links are provided to access the Voyager catalog or a logon screen

15. index.html WRLCConnect.java l If a valid ip address, get the list of databases from Access and display homeframe.html l else display the logon or Patron Validation screen

16. Patron Validation To access library catalogs and other public databases, select one of the links on the left. To access article databases and other resources, enter your Library Patron ID and click the Go! button. Patron ID: Patron ID may be your Social Security Number, University ID number, or Library User Barcode number. Enter only digits...no spaces or hyphens. Library Catalogs WRLC Libraries Catalog George Mason University Library Catalog For current George Mason library material, please search the GMU catalog. Trinity College Library Catalog WRLC Libraries Websites WRLC Image Collections

17. Patron Validation WRLCLogon.java l If a valid ID, which could be SSN, barcode or University ID, get the list of databases from Access and display homeframe.html l else display a logon failure message and repeat the Patron Validation process

18. Library Catalogs WRLC Libraries Catalog George Mason University Library Catalog For current George Mason library material, please search the GMU catalog. Trinity College Library Catalog WRLC Libraries Websites WRLC Image Collections Article and Other Databases ABI/Inform ACM Digital Library Art Abstracts Books in Print Cinahl ERIC First Search MathSciNet Newspaper Abstracts STAT-USA World News Connection

19. Authos table : autho pwd userdbkey style sessions name ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61 password au wrlc 100 American University 145 password au wrlc 100 American University 51 password ga wrlc 100 Gallaudet University 173 password mu wrlc 100 Marymount University 67 password tc wrlc 100Trinity College …... ip:299.* NULL auIP wrlc 100 American University …...

20. Userdb table : userdbkey dbid ------------------------------ au126 au1 auIP126 auIP1 gw278 gw1 gwIP278 gwIP1 tc306 all82 all1 allIP82 allIP1

21. Dbs table : dbid dbname authotype sessions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 306 CONTEMPORARYWOMEN1 5 278 AMERICANMATH1 5 268CAMRIDGESCIABALPIP1 5 251HARPWEEKAUIP1 5 195MATHSCINETIP1 5 127PSYCINFOUDC1 5 82PSYCINFOAU1 5 ….. 1VOYAGER1 5

22. Summary l Two java programs which use the Authorize verb: WRLCConnect.java and WRLCLogon.java l Three java programs to query an Oracle patron table: Patron.java, Barcode.java and InstID.java l JDBC l Some html screens