4. Features
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• Presentation rooms
• Colour-coded subject • Internet café
zones, adjacent to • Information skills teaching
teaching areas area
• Mixture of provision for • Staff work area
different learning styles,
social and solitary
• Central contact point on
each floor (joint staffing on
2nd floor)
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6. Federated access
• No history of widespread
Athens use
• Different ideas about what
federated access is for
• Consultancy: Salford Software
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7. JISC RSC survey (Nov
08)
• 78% of London FE Colleges
had joined the UK Federation
• Yet of those who had signed
up a third had no solution in
place
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8. Audit
• May 2008: audit of existing
subscriptions, only one not
committed to Shibboleth
compliance (one new sub
since)
• Installation: 24 November
2008
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9. A year later, some of
it works, but…
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11. Still some way to go
• Users still challenged for
multiple logins
• See Andy Powell on usability:
• Does anyone care?
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12. To follow up
• JISC Federated Access pages
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/federation
• Making the UK Federation usable
http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2009/06/lets-ge
• Libraries of the future
http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/
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