Tom Roper, Head of Learning Resources New LRC and federated access
May 10, 2015
Tom Roper, Head of Learning Resources
New LRC and federated access
South Thames College
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New College
Features
Save the time of the reader
• Colour-coded subject zones, adjacent to teaching areas
• Mixture of provision for different learning styles, social and solitary
• Central contact point on each floor (joint staffing on 2nd floor)
• Presentation rooms• Internet café• Information skills teaching
area• Staff work area
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New LRC
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Federated access
• No history of widespread Athens use
• Different ideas about what federated access is for
• Consultancy: Salford Software
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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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Audit
• May 2008: audit of existing subscriptions, only one not committed to Shibboleth compliance (one new sub since)
• Installation: 24 November 2008
A year later, some of it works, but…
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Some doesn’t
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Still some way to go
• Users still challenged for multiple logins
• See Andy Powell on usability:
• Does anyone care?
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-get-usable.html
• Libraries of the future http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/
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