Can I access IP filtering websites from a different location?

The library of my university restricts the use of certain bases college data by IP address filtering so that only students and staff can use them. I'm studying abroad next semester, and although I have to pay for these services as part of my classes while you are away, I lose access to them. I was wondering if there is any way I could continue access to these services even though they will be behind a foreign IP? My first idea is to use a VPN client. If I connect to the library computer lab VPN My IP will appear to be local, again? a second thought, it requires much more work is the creation of an SSH server. If I can convince a friend on campus to run an SSH server, and connect to it with putty, could you tell Firefox to use localhost port 22 to a SOCKS proxy, which makes me the same IP address the servers?

Have you considered running a Squid proxy from within the campus network, then connect to this proxy when you are in the abroad? All content then be requested through the proxy, which is on its campus network and therefore seem to come from the Universities Netblock assigned.

Proxy over SSH