Regarding the ability to link to a record in the catalog, the reQuest statewide library catalog serving CT does provide that capability. Here is one example:
http://rqst-agent.auto-graphics.com/AGRssService/RssService.svc/Go2FullRecord/4903037/125/12187/rqst
When you display the full record, the user can either copy the link or email the link (with or without its associated holdings).
Bill Sullivan
William Sullivan, Administrator
iCONN - Connecticut's re-search engine www.iconn.org
Connecticut State Library www.cslib.org
786 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457
wsullivan_at_cslib.org
p: 860-704-2230 or 888-256-1222 (toll-free in CT)
f: 860-704-2229
>>> Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET> 10/23/2009 1:41 PM >>>
Tim Spalding wrote:
> At a minimum, I'd like to take the URL of a page and bookmark it or
> send it to a friend. Mostly, I can't do that now. URLs are
> session-based and die when I try to use them.
>
> This is a problem the web solved in the mid-to-late 90s. That
> libraries haven't solved it is, simply, pathetic.
>
>
I don't recall the details, but something in the back of my mind is
telling me that the sessions exist because we didn't want vendors to use
cookies on public access terminals. Does anyone else remember that? I
believe the idea of the session-based URL was to retain the session
without leaving anything on the computer.
kc
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