Regarding services against collections, specifically something like
Send It To Me, Stephen Cauffman brought the following to my attention
from the NCIP mailing list:
> Gail Wanner wrote:
>
> The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative is introducing the GetIt!
> Button at ALA Annual this week. We ask your assistance in making
> vendors and librarians aware of this new service. Vendors with OPACs
> and searching tools can configure access to their holdings and
> availability information and even make it possible for a user to
> place a
> hold or make a request in their customers' systems. I am attaching a
> letter that is being sent to vendors. The button is currently a
> working
> prototype and it will be made available to library patrons and other
> users later this year. More information is being posted on the
> group's
> website:
>
> http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org
I was particularly interested in the Initiative's GetIt! specification:
http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/getit.html
"Thank you, Stephen!"
--
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
Received on Tue Jun 19 2007 - 18:18:41 EDT