I have been diligently working on making my library resources accessible from outside the hospital. It has taken me awhile but Monday I will be speaking with a bunch of physicians to show them how cool it will be to have access to almost all of our databases (no UpToDate) and journals from anywhere in the world. We will then begin to actively recruit our users to sign up for remote access.

I am interested to see how this new method for access will impact our usage statistics. I am pretty sure the stats will go up but it will be interesting to see how much.

One thing I keep thinking about is a federated search tool to use in conjunction with my Athens resources. Doctors don't care where the information comes from they just want it to show up. I'll will have to think about it, look at usage, and listen to my users to see if this is something I want to pursue. Who knows.

I am just glad that I am finally able to tell my users, "Yes you can get that from home, and here is how."