Re: An interesting practical problem that might be a good hackfest project

From: Andreas Orphanides <akorphan_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:11:04 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I should know this, since my wife works there... but does NoveList have an
API?

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David J. Fiander <david_at_fiander.info>wrote:

> A friend on friendfeed (no, it's not dead, and yes there's an active
> librarian community there) who works in a public library complains thusly:
>
> > I have decided that it's a goal of mine that for all series in the
> > fiction collection that circulate reasonably well, I want us to have
> > the full series. Right now, this is a cumbersome and annoying task. I
> > have to identify the series (because not all of them are cataloged as
> > such), see what we have, check the circulation, then check NoveList
> > and compare the lists and look for gaps.
>
> This strikes me as an interesting problem, but one that I can't devote
> any time to now.
>
> And there's the related question of why this is as difficult as it seems
> to be.
>
Received on Mon Apr 08 2013 - 13:12:25 EDT