The open source community of software developers working on and
supporting the eXtensible Catalog's (XC) NCIP Toolkit,
http://code.google.com/p/xcncip2toolkit/ is extremely happy to announce
the first production use of the new NCIP Toolkit that supports version
2.0 of the NCIP protocol.
Lehigh University, a member of Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium,
Inc (PALCI) is using the XC NCIP Toolkit as a way to perform circulation
functions between their SirsiDynix Symphony ILS and the newly released
resource sharing system named E-ZBorrow. Last year, PALCI selected
Relais D2D to power their E-ZBorrow resource sharing system for 52
academic
libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia. E-ZBorrow
allows patrons to search across the member library catalogs and request
circulating items directly from any partner library.
Lehigh is able to participate in this resource sharing system through
development of a SirsiDynix NCIP "connector" that uses the following
NCIP services:
* Lookup User
* CheckIn Item
* CheckOut Item
* Accept Item
Lehigh University plans to make this open source NCIP connector
available shortly for other SirsiDynix clients and an announcement will
be made when the connector is available.
Randall Cook, PMP
eXtensible Catalog Organization
University of Rochester River Campus Libraries
585-273-2042
rcook_at_library.rochester.edu <mailto:rcook_at_library.rochester.edu>
Received on Wed Mar 30 2011 - 15:58:51 EDT