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ital-5770	Ellern, Gillian (Jill) D; Hitch, Robin; Stoffan, Mark A	User Authentication in the Public Areas of Academic Libraries in North Carolina	2015-06-15	30	.pdf	application/pdf	10231	295	34	Microsoft Word - June_ITAL_Ellern_final.docx User  Authentication  in  the  Public     Area  of  Academic  Libraries  in     North  Carolina   Gillian  (Jill)  D.  Ellern,     Robin  Hitch,  and   Mark  A.  Stoffan       INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  AND  LIBRARIES  |  JUNE  2015     103         ABSTRACT   The  clash  of  principles  between  protecting  privacy  and  protecting  security  can  create  an  impasse   between  libraries,  campus  IT  departments,  and  academic  administration  over  authentication  issues   with  the  public  area  PCs  in  the  library.   He   confirmed  that  other  librarians  also  have  ambivalent  feelings  about  authentication  issues  but  that   there  was  also  growing  understanding  in  libraries  about  the  potential  vulnerability  of  networks  or   misuse  of  their  resources.2     It  seemed  that  the  speed  at  which  authenticating  computers  in  the  public  areas  of  libraries  was   happening  across  the  country  had  not  really  allowed  the  literature  on  the  subject  to  quite  catch  up.     INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  AND  LIBRARIES  |  JUNE  2015     105           Those  studies  that  existed  such  as  SPEC  Kits  seem  to  address  the  issue  from  the  perspective  of   larger  research  libraries  or  else  did  not  systematically  assess  other  specific  groups  of  libraries.3,4     There  were  questions  in  our  minds  about  whether  the  current  research  that  was  found  would   describe  the  trends  and  unique  situations  of  libraries  located  in  rural  areas  or  in  other  types  of   academic  libraries. 	cache/ital-5770.pdf	txt/ital-5770.txt