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

[Ross Singer]

I'm not trying to be belligerent here, but if this is the case, you 
might have the wrong priorities in regards to staffing.

And that might be the core of "our problem".

-Ross.

Karen Coombs wrote:

>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 
>
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>From: web4lib at webjunction.org
>[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:16 AM
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>Subject: [WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library marketing was RE:
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>Darryl Friesen wrote:
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>>>Speaking of Amazon APIs, what Web Services are out there for library 
>>>OPACs and sites?
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>>I'd expect very few, if any.  And I don't see that changing.
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>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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