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[Karen Coombs]

Frankly, I couldn't agree more. However, your staffing priorities are a
direct result of the vision of libraries and librarianship that is being
set by your institution. Not everyone shares my vision of the role of
libraries. If you see the primary responsibility of libraries as
providing a cohensive, unbiquitious access to information to their users
then you probably allocate staff to develop systems to serve this
function. If you believe that the focus of librarianship is on user
education and information literacy then you allocate your staff in a
very different way. The niche I see libraries able to fill the best is
putting all the pieces together for users so that they can more easily
locate and access the information that fufills their needs. That being
said, personally there are days when I feel the task is enormous because
the disperateness of both the library systems and the resources two
which libraries are trying to provide access. Perhaps a little
collaboration would make the job a lot easier.
 

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

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ross Singer [mailto:ross.singer at library.gatech.edu] 
	Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:59 AM
	To: Karen Coombs
	Cc: Multiple recipients of list
	Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library
marketing was RE:
	
	
	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 
		
		-----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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