Presented by Peter Murray, Assistant to the Library Director for Technology Initiatives at the University of Connecticut
Technology for the Rest of Us:
What Every Librarian Should Understand about the Technologies that Affect Us
May 24-27, 2004
The Ohio State University
Like it or not, our computers are under constant attack from those whose intent ranges from benign to malicious. Our servers, staff computers, and public workstations are targets for the information they hold, for the systems that can be accessed through them, and as pawns in the global games of hacker communities. Our patrons in particular and the global network community in general expect us to execute due diligence in maintaining secure systems.
At the same time, we are challenged by an ever increasing array of services and ways that patrons want to use our services. Our house of cards -- ip address recognition as a form of authorization, proxy servers for remote user access, and extremely blunt tools we use to tailor service offerings to particular segments of users -- is crumbling under its own weight.
Participants in this workshop were introduced to the vocabulary and broad concepts of network security and access management. They also were introduced to tools and reading resources available to learn additional information on the topic.
Sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and OhioLINK
This presentation was funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio.
For more information on the Technology for the Rest of Us seminars, please email courtney.24@osu.edu.