Hi all,

For your interest: "Protecting Patron Privacy in Digital Resources" on Scholarly Kitchen.

Stanford library made a statement recently about patrons privacy. I think this statement perfectly aligns with our work.

It draws the libraries' concerns and underlines the importance of our work. FIM4L should have the ability to make e-resource access with SSO better than using IP based access. Libraries cannot win the fight for preserving patron privacy by keep using IP based access.

I think we even have to encourage SSO access (when Open Access without authentication is not possible) in order to "... carefully structure [SSO access] to minimize exposure of patron data as much as possible, but always to ensure disclosure of any PII that may be transmitted." According to the article.

all the best,

Jos

Jos Westerbeke