With the rapid increase in the use of electronic resources in libraries, managing access to online information is a constant challenge for librarians. Written by experts in the field, "Access and Identity Management for Libraries: Controlling Access to Online Information," claims to be the first book to explain the principles behind access management, with coverage of the available technologies and how they work. The publication is published by Facet Publishing and available through the ALA Store.
Authors Masha Garibyan, Simon McLeish and John Paschoud also include an overview of federated access management technologies, such as Shibboleth, that have gained increasing international recognition in recent years. This book provides detailed case studies describing how access management is being implemented at organisational and national levels in the UK, USA and Europe, providing a practical guide to the resources available to help plan, implement and operate access management in libraries.
Garibyan has been involved in access management since 2004, when she joined the London School of Economics Library Projects Team. She also worked as part of the JISC Access Management Team for two years helping UK education institutions and service providers adopt federated access. She currently works at the University of Worcester as part of the Library Academic Services Team.
McLeish is resource discovery architect at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK, and previously worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and as an independent IT professional, specialising in Identity and Access Management.
Paschoud has been an IT professional since 1972. As Projects Manager at the LSE Library he led a series of projects which identified and established the technologies for federated access that are now most widely used by academic libraries. As a consulting information systems engineer he now specialises mainly in government and education fields, and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research.
