A lot of bright and talented people have argued for years now that our
OPACs need to be more like Google and Amazon.
I think we need to do the exact opposite: Let us pool our resources and
lobby Google and Amazon to make their systems more like the OPAC!
Here is a demo of what I'm talking about:
http://library2.csusm.edu/amazon/
Just think how much better Amazon could be if they took this approach!
Feel free to file this under "Bad or inappropriate uses of the Amazon
Web Services API." ;-)
--Dave
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David Walker
Web Development Librarian
Library, Cal State San Marcos
760-750-4379
http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker
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Received on Sat Jun 10 2006 - 16:25:39 EDT