Distribution of Passwords

[Jennifer Cassidy <jcassidy@westernu.edu>]

We recently set up a proxy server to allow remote access to our electronic
resources. My question to the list is how do you distribute passwords to
faculty and students? Prior to the proxy server I e-mailed passwords for
our databases to the faculty and offered passwords to our distance
students only, sometimes through e-mail and sometimes over the phone. I
remember when I was in college we received the proxy passwords in class
from an instructor, never through e-mail. Just wondering what most
libraries are doing.

Thanks!

Jennifer Cassidy
Systems Librarian
Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library
Western University of Health Sciences
309 E Second Street
Pomona, CA 91766-1854
(909) 469-5368
http://www.westernu.edu/library <http://www.westernu.edu/library>