Customized Access
Authorization
By
Phil Boyer and Wei Wu
Washington Research Library Consortium
Gallaudet
George
Mason
Catholic
WRLC
American
University
of DC
George
Washington
Marymount
Washington Research Library Consortium
901 Commerce Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
301-390-2000
www.wrlc.org
The Washington Research Library Consortium
University
of DC
American
University
Marymount
University
George Mason
University
Catholic
University
Gallaudet
University
WRLC
George Washington
University
Washington, DC
Total 7 member libraries
WRLC Members
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Seven universities in the Washington DC
metropolitan area
5 private and 2 public
Total 75,000 students (head count)
(Largest has 20,000; smallest has 2,000)
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Total about 5 million volumes
(Largest has 1.4 million; smallest has 170,000)
WRLC Members Share
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Collections
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Computer technology
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Facilities
WRLC Programs
Cooperative
Collection
Development
Reciprocal
Borrowing
WRLC
Virtual
Library
Offsite
Storage
Shared
Electronic
Library
System
WRLC Reciprocal Borrowing Program
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Students, faculty and staff may borrow from any
member library using their own university ID
Patrons may return items to any member library
All patrons are registered in a single shared
patron file
WRLC Electronic Resource Subscriptions
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Core databases are available to all members
(general periodical indexes, newspaper abstracts,
full article images)
Members may subscribe to supplemental (optional)
databases, to be accessed from the shared
computing system
WRLC can serve as the contracting agent for
supplemental subscriptions, to secure consortial
pricing where available
WRLC ALADIN System Overview
Over 700 stations in
member libraries
From campus networks
T-1 circuits
To and from the INTERNET
T-1 circuits
Wide-area network supporting
approx. 750 simultaneous users
Servers at WRLC
Sun Microsystems
Ultra Enterprise 6000 and 4000s
IBM
Mainframe
IBM AIX
Notis
SiteSearch
3.x
SNA
VSAM
Patron File
Assembler
User ID
Patron Groups
CGI
Perl
C
Korn shell
Sun
Solaris
IBM AIX
Voyager
SiteSearch
3.x
Socket
Oracle
Patron Table
Perl
User ID
Patron Groups
CGI
Perl
C
Korn shell
Migration from SiteSearch 3 to 4
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Preserve the current “look and feel”
No logo menu, the patron sees either a list
of databases or a logon screen
Go production in 60 days
Change the locally mounted databases to
UMI and OVID
Sun
Solaris
Sun
Solaris
Voyager
SiteSearch
4.x
SQLNet
Oracle
Patron Table
User ID
Access
Patron Groups
Java
JDBC
www.aladin.wrlc.org
index.html
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“Refresh” to the following URL:
/www.aladin.wrlc.org/WebZ/WRLCConnect:sessionid=0
If the browser can’t handle the “refresh”, links are
provided to access the Voyager catalog or a logon
screen
index.html
WRLCConnect.java
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If a valid ip address, get the list of databases from
Access and display homeframe.html
else display the logon or Patron Validation screen
Library Catalogs
Patron Validation
WRLC Libraries Catalog
George Mason University Library Catalog
Trinity College Library Catalog
To access library catalogs and other public databases,
select one of the links on the left.
WRLC Libraries Websites
To access article databases and other resources, enter
your Library Patron ID and click the Go! button.
For current George Mason library material, please search the GMU catalog.
WRLC Image Collections
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.
Patron Validation
WRLCLogon.java
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If a valid ID, which could be SSN, barcode or University
ID, get the list of databases from Access and display
homeframe.html
else display a logon failure message and repeat the
Patron Validation process
Library Catalogs
Article and Other Databases
WRLC Libraries Catalog
ABI/Inform
George Mason University Library Catalog
ACM Digital Library
For current George Mason library material, please search the GMU catalog.
Trinity College Library Catalog
Art Abstracts
Books in Print
Cinahl
WRLC Libraries Websites
ERIC
First Search
WRLC Image Collections
MathSciNet
Newspaper Abstracts
STAT-USA
World News Connection
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
100
Trinity College
auIP
wrlc
100
American University
…...
ip:299.*
…...
NULL
Userdb table:
userdbkey
dbid
-----------------------------au
126
au
1
auIP
126
auIP
1
gw
278
gw
1
gwIP
278
gwIP
1
tc
306
all
82
all
1
allIP
82
allIP
1
Dbs table:
dbid
dbname
authotype
sessions
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------306
CONTEMPORARYWOMEN
1
5
278
AMERICANMATH
1
5
268
CAMRIDGESCIABALPIP
1
5
251
HARPWEEKAUIP
1
5
195
MATHSCINETIP
1
5
127
PSYCINFOUDC
1
5
82
PSYCINFOAU
1
5
VOYAGER
1
5
…..
1
Summary
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Two java programs which use the
Authorize verb: WRLCConnect.java and
WRLCLogon.java
Three java programs to query an Oracle
patron table: Patron.java, Barcode.java
and InstID.java
JDBC
Some html screens