Eric, I need to say I'm impressed with what you created. This may be a
useful tool. It may make you a millionaire. But I just don't think it
should be the Next Generation Catalog.
--Ted G.
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:49 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] send it to me
I think the "next generation" library catalog is not really a
"catalog" at all, but more like a tool or a foundation for providing
various types of services, and as an example I wrote a program I call
Send It To Me:
http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/send/
Given an ISBN number the program will try to find the item in our
local catalog and prompt the user for their University ID if it is
found. The system would then update a local database and get somebody
to actually send the item to the user. "Send it to me!"
If the item is not found, then it uses xisbn and thingisbn to
generate similar ISBN numbers and search for those locally. Again, if
found, it prompts the user for their ID and sets up a delivery
mechanism.
If all is lost, then the system locates the item in the Library of
Congress, and offers the user four choices: 1) ILL, 2) library
purchase, 3) user purchase, 4) find similar items and borrow them
instead.
The whole thing is just a prototype; it demonstrates how libraries
could make things easier for students, instructors, and researchers
when it comes to acquiring known items from library catalogs.
--
Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Fri May 11 2007 - 14:52:09 EDT