It's A Relay Marathon, Not A Solo Sprint: Post-Implementation Stories, Tips and Tricks with OpenAthens & Electronic Resource Management
Abstract
For this session, UGA Law Library's Wendy Moore and Rachel Evans team up with GALILEO's Russell Palmer and Ken Henslee. For a few years now the state has been rolling out OpenAthens as the preferred and required authentication method for electronic resource access in libraries. Russell will give both the background and current roadmap of how that is going across the state of Georgia. Ken and Wendy will take turns talking about UGA Law Library's specific problems and solutions as a particularly difficult case compared to other libraries. Wendy and Ken will also both share stories about specific vendors who have required additional troubleshooting and problem solving as it related to communication and technical work-arounds. Lastly, Rachel will give some practical tips to librarians who may be caught in the middle, including how she's worked through hundreds of thousands of links so far, Athenizing larger and smaller sets of URLs, managing batch MARC catalog record updates for 856 fields, and how much work is still left to be completed. Throughout this session we hope library employees of all types walk away with a better understanding of OpenAthens implementation across the state, as well as what is left to be done and what has changed since their libraries launched with OpenAthens and SSO.
Repository Citation
Evans, Rachel S.; Palmer, Russell; Henslee, Ken; and Moore, Wendy, "It's A Relay Marathon, Not A Solo Sprint: Post-Implementation Stories, Tips and Tricks with OpenAthens & Electronic Resource Management" (2022). Presentations. 248.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/speeches/248
Presented virtually at the 2022 Georgia Libraries Conference on October 19, 2022, from 11:00 am to 11:45 am.