Alexandria proudly integrates with Perma-eHub, allowing your patrons to quickly access Perma-Bound™ electronic resources.

Perma-eHub Service Enhancements

• Patrons can easily distinguish and access Perma-eHub resources from Alexandria's Researcher interfaces using web browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer—or mobile devices, laptops, and tablets such as Apple's iPad, Google's Chromebook, and others.
• As the patron's library account authority, Alexandria authenticates and authorizes patrons attempting to borrow Perma-eHub resources. Alexandria utilizes a subset of the SIP2 communications standard to accomplish this.

Perma-eHub Settings

Once properly registered, Perma-eHub become available in the Extras section of your Management preferences. You are required to configure the following for Perma-eHub:

• Enable Perma-eHub. Checking this box enables Perma-eHub functionality and interface elements. Default is checked.

• Vendor URL. This field is used mainly for reference; it can be updated if Perma-Bound ever changes their web addresses. What you provide here can be accessed from the Vendors menu of the main Circulation window.

• Perma-eHub Code. Sometimes referred to as a Terminal Password. You are responsible for creating this code; it should be between seven and twelve alphanumerics long (“A-Z”, “0-9”), without spaces, punctuation, or special characters (e.g., 8364876 or 7103582A360). Be sure to provide this code to Perma-Bound when they ask for your eHub Terminal Password. This code is essentially a password which you set that allows Perma-eHub to communicate with Alexandria in order to authenticate patrons who want access to Perma-eHub materials.
  
  
• Enable Checksum Error Handling. The SIP2 protocol allows extra error detection to be enabled, over and above any error detection provided by the communication medium's protocol. When error detection is enabled, a checksum field is appended to every Perma-eHub message. This setting is not required, but highly recommended; this should only be disabled under the direction of COMPanion's Customer Support Department.
  
  

Configure Perma-eHub for Alexandria

When enabled and properly configured, Alexandria provides the “patron authentication” and “verification” services for Perma-eHub. In other words, before allowing patrons to access and borrow Perma-eHub resources, patron status and credentials are validated with Alexandria. If your patron is authorized and in good standing, they will be permitted to use Perma-eHub resources; if not, access will be denied until the issue is resolved with a librarian.

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