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

[Eric Hellman]

At 10:31 AM -0700 10/21/99, Dan Lester wrote:
>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
>

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.

Eric
Eric Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
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