[WEB4LIB] Re: The OPAC as Portal - Not!

[Dan Lester]

At 09:53 AM 10/21/99 -0700, George Porter wrote:
>I can't begin to imagine the nightmare of privacy concerns that would ensue
>from allowing Amazon to speculate as to what libraries extend borrowing
>privileges to me.  I'd rather not go there, the buying circles are
>frightening enough.

But.....why not work with Amazon (or whoever) and have them put up your 
library's banner if the browser is coming from your campus ip number 
range?  They'd never show the caltech library banner to anyone else, so you 
wouldn't get flooded with people you don't serve.

dan

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