I've just published my second tutorial on how to set up a usb smartcard reader (in my case the SCR335) inspired by the FSFE How-To, a comment in that page by gerloff, and the GnuPG FSFE card tutorial
The tutorial should work with every Debian-based distro which uses Udev, but it's easy to modify the commands for every distro with Udev installed.
With this how-to you will be able to access the card without being root.