Quick Staff Guide to LIRA Accounts

1. Why is authentication required?
- To comply with the terms of U of T license agreements for electronic resources
- To ensure that the primary U of T community (faculty, staff, students) has priority access to terminals and licensed online resources.
- To ensure users comply with the University of Toronto Appropriate Use of Technology policy


2. How do patrons gain access to a public PC?
a) Patrons must use the guest account kiosk to generate an account name and password. Patrons must swipe one of the following pieces of ID:
- UofT Library / T-Card
- Canadian or U.S. driver’s license
- Credit card (American Express, Mastercard, or VISA)
b) Patrons must then agree to the conditions regarding appropriate use of the university network. Then the printer issues a login name and password which are good until 11 PM of the current day.
c) Patrons enter this account name and password into the PCs designated for their use.


3. Who is eligible to use public access PCs?
Anyone with one of the following pieces of ID:
- UofT Library / T-Card
- Canadian or U.S. driver’s license
- Credit card (American Express, Mastercard, or VISA)

4. Can staff still create guest accounts?
a) Staff should always direct patrons to the kiosk
b) Staff can create guest accounts when there are problems with the kiosk (hardware failure, run out of paper, ink, etc).
c) In cases where patrons do not have an acceptable credit card, driver's license, or previous UTL library/TCard, staff can create a guest account if the patron has government issued photo ID (e.g. OHIP card, TTC student metropass, high school ID card, etc)


5. How to create an account:
a) Ask patron for valid government issued photo ID (e.g. OHIP card, TTC student metropass, high school ID card, etc) - an account cannot be created unless this ID is presented.
b) Go to http://peas.icicle.utoronto.ca/ (bookmarked in Explorer on Loans Desk PC)
c) Create a Library and Internet Resource Account, do not create a General Guest Account.
d) The required information is patron name, email and university affiliation (can be “none”)


6. Who can create a guest account?
- Patrons themselves using the guest account kiosk
- Staff who work at the Information Desk; staff working at the Loans Services Desk (please note this includes full-time staff as well as the SLAs who work on Sunday after 7 pm)


7. Visiting scholars who inquire about a guest account for longer periods should be referred to Robarts Access & Information.

LIRA Kiosk for creating temporary accounts

The LIRA Kiosk located near Printing Station 1 is the new way for people to use our 5 open public computers.
These computers used to have no login at all, but now require the user to go to the Kiosk and obtain a temporary username and password.
Instructions on how to use the Kiosk are at the station.

Anyone with a valid Canadian or U.S. drivers licence, credit card or TCard may use the Kiosk.
Anyone without this ID may obtain a LIRA account from the reference side of the Information Desk.

This temporary account is active until 11pm of the day created. On following days the procedure is the same.