Can there be an easier way for alumns (sic) to get temporary accounts? Other schools give accounts for an extended period of time.
Alumni may use electronic resources within the library but are not eligible for remote access. The library’s contractual agreements with the electronic resource providers prevent us from allowing off-campus access to these resources to non-current students, staff or faculty. If license terms are violated, we may LOSE ACCESS to the resource either temporarily or permanently.
For more information, see General Use Guidelines for Electronic Resources.
What is remote access? The general Use guidelines speak about online sources not necessarily access to computers.
What about on-campus temporary accounts for on-campus computers?
Are alumini allowed to talk to the service desk?
This summer there was a sign that said “service desk is for current students ONLY”
There was another that said “ALUMNI should go UPSTAIRS”
Hi there–I’ll try to take these in order!
1) Remote access is access from off campus to our electronic journals and databases. When we subscribe to databases, we are allowed to give alumni access to these resources, but only when the alumni are on campus.
2) The library cannot provide temporary accounts, but we are happy to log alumni in with a guest account, which will give you access to online resources.
3) The service desk you’re referring to is part of Technology Services, a department separate from the library, with different policies.
So they could not help you access library resources. If you would like to access library resources, we can best help you upstairs!
Both of us are library staff answering! This is a library blog, so only library staff are answering at the moment. We have had guest posts, but we always note who is posting them.
It’s a complex scenario, because the library works with the information that is provided via the computers in the library, but we don’t control the hardware or software or who is issued logons to the computers–that’s done by TS.
Accounts at UW are very different because UW is a public institution, with more and different resources and different obligations than UPS.
If you would like to chat face to face about this, please don’t hesitate to stop by my office, Library 117, and I’ll do the best I can to answer your questions or help you find the people who can better address them if it’s something I can’t answer.