[WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library marketing was RE:

[Karen Coombs]

As someone with ExLibris products I would like to add that in order to
provide to provide much richer services with these products you need
vision and coding skills or at least access to people with coding
skills. I've spent the better part of the last year working on projects
with using ExLibris' APIs and getting these things to work takes a
certain level of technical expertise. Not all library's have staff that
possess these abilities which puts them at a certain disadvantages when
trying to create more ubiquitous and integrated services.

Karen A. Coombs
Electronic Services Librarian
SUNY Cortland
coombsk at cortland.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:16 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library marketing was RE:


Darryl Friesen wrote:

>>Speaking of Amazon APIs, what Web Services are out there for library 
>>OPACs and sites?
>>    
>>
>
>I'd expect very few, if any.  And I don't see that changing.
>  
>
Actually, this isn't true.  Both ExLibris and Sirsi have APIs (that I 
can think of off the top of my head).  SFX, Aleph and Metalib could all 
extended to provide much richer services, for someone with the vision 
(and, of course, Ex Libris products).

-Ross.



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