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

[Dan Lester]

At 02:11 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Eric Hellman wrote:
> >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
> >
>
>Dan Lester and George Porter are right that there are bad ways to do it,
>but they assume too much about possible implementations of linking from
>Amazon et al. to Libraries.

I don't think I understand the comment.  I'm not assuming anything about 
what might or might not, could or could not, be done with Amazon or 
others.  I'm simply suggesting one way in which working with them might be 
a good thing.  Or, it might not.  Or, there might be a better 
way.   However, I'm not ready to automatically dump the idea of working 
with them "just because".

dan



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