LOUIS: Database Intercept Page

From: LALDF-L - Louisiana Academic Library Directors Forum [mailto:LALDF-L@LISTSERV.LSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Sara G Zimmerman
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:07 PM
To: LALDF-L@LISTSERV.LSU.EDU
Subject: Database Intercept Page

Dean/Directors,

I’ve been asked by the PR Task Force to run this option by you. I believe you have heard me mention this option before. Are you willing/interested in driving home the point that resources are in jeopardy but installing a intercept page when the student accesses a database? The intercept page could look like this:

1. http://www.ulm.edu/~niemla/louis-intercept/test5.html

It would come up after the search but only for a few seconds then the student would continue on with the search. It can be in front of EZProxy or right off your webpage.

An option in place now, and only on the LOUIS EZProxy page, looks like this:

2. https://ezpauth.louislibraries.org/authen/ezproxylogin_louis.x?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login

We can share that code with you if you have your own installation of EZProxy.

The intercept page would be in place of #2.

Note: I am only talking about the LOUIS EZProxy. If you have your own you would have to install this.


Please let me know your preference:
1. I am in favor of the Intercept page.
2. I am not in favor of the intercept page.
3. I’ll add the Intercept page or the LOUIS version on my own webpage/ezproxy page.


Thanks.

Sara Zimmerman, MLIS

Executive Director

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network

Frey Computing Services, LSU

Baton Rouge, LA 70810

225.578.3705

Sara@lsu.edu

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LOUIS update and request: LALDF-L - Louisiana Academic Library Directors Forum LALDF-L@LISTSERV.LSU.EDU

http://appl003.lsu.edu/ocsweb/louishome.nsf/$Content/Louisiana+Academic+Library+Information+Network+Consortium?OpenDocument

Good morning everyone,

As you should be aware by now, the LALINC Public Relations Task Force has been instrumental in creating ways to get the word out about the LOUIS funding issue. And many of you have also taken time out of your day to personally call or write to your local legislators. I think this has been successful in that almost every elected official, the Governor and the Regents now know about LOUIS. It is safe to say that everyone that hears about LOUIS and the benefits/services/savings agrees that it is a model for how to do “more with less”. BUT, no new funding has resulted from this PR push. In order to keep the pressure on , attached are recommendations from the LALINC PR Task Force with ideas of how to get the word out on your campus. Please take a moment to review and implement what you can.

The Board of Regents has only allocated $500,000 of the 11-12 $2,270,000 that is needed. NSULA did meet with Sen Gerald Long to ask him to introduce a bill to centrally fund LOUIS. It will be hard for him to pull this off without support from other Senators and Representatives. So, I’m asking that each library Dean or Director, call the elected officials that represent your campus and ask that they work together to introduce a bill to centrally fund LOUIS. The amount needed for 11-12, is $2.27m.

Without central funding, your library/campus is responsible for paying the difference. The LALINC Executive Committee understands that this isn’t something easy to do and has implemented a new procedure this year. Each of you has been required to sign a letter of intent that indicates you will pay the LOUIS Membership Fee for 11-12. While you have seen estimates of the fee, the exact amount will not be calculated till later in the year.

There are still a handful of sites that have not signed the letter of intent and today is the deadline. Without this signature, your library will be excluded from access starting July 1, 2011. While this may seem extreme, we have to start the negotiation process for all resources and services in the coming weeks and without the commitment, we will be forced to exclude the campus. This is the ugly, unfortunate truth behind no central funding and not something any of us look forward to.

In conclusion, please review the attachment and implement what you can. And please call your elected officials asking for central funding. The deadline for filing bills is April 29th. If we all start today and make these calls, there is a chance we can get the central funding and offset what each campus will be required to pay.

Thank you for all the efforts you have put forth to date. I know this whole process has been a distraction to the normal activities in your library and with your staff. We all appreciate the efforts of those that are going out of their way. I would like to extend a big thank you to the LALINC PR Task Force. They are: Mike Matthews, NSULA; Karen Niemla, ULM; Carla Clark, LSUS; Nicole Morello, BRCC; Tony Fonseca, Nicholls.

Sara

LALINC-L: Petition to Save Statistical Abstract

Dear Folks,

The budget that was just approved by Congress was for fiscal year
2011, so the discussions about the 2012 budget that would eliminate
the Statistical Abstract of the United States are just about to
begin. There's still time to ask Congress not to defund the
Statistical Compendia Branch.

If you'd like to sign a petition in favor of saving the Statistical
Abstract, here's a link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/save-the-statistical-abstract-of-the-united-states-2

There's also a Facebook group devoted to this issue:

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There will be many important issues to debate related to the 2012
budget, so it will take a concerted effort on our part to make our
voices heard amongst all the other noise.

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*Lori Smith
*Government Documents Department Head
*Sims Memorial Library
*Southeastern Louisiana University
*SLU 10896
*Hammond, LA 70402
*(985) 549-3966
LSMITH@SELU.EDU
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