Ideas….

Today I had a friend ask me about EZ Proxy. In trying to help answer her question I came across this lovely wiki page that describes the set up of the file. Its quite useful if i do say so:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/ezproxy/wiki/index.php/EZproxy.cfg

I also noticed that good old Ben Noeske (who I used to work with at Ex Libris) contributed to the page; and knowing what I know about Ben, I feel its quite trustworthy.

Anyway I’m filing it away because one day I hope to have an EZ Proxy Server of my very own.

I’ve been dealing with a lot of off-campus access problems and dreaming of having my own ezproxy server.  I was thinking that the best way to sell it is as part of single sign-on (ie students only have to use one login).  So I found an OCLC page on using EZProxy with LDAP.  That reminded me that OCLC is trying to take over the library world (they just purchased the rights to EZProxy.  I hope they don’t try to make users pay for it.