I just came across this blog posting http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/09/book-search-everywhere-with-new.html
and was wondering if such a thing would work in the Evergreen PAC, and how difficult it would be to implement?
We used to contract for Syndetic to provide book covers and summaries/reviews and our readers really enjoyed being able to carry a mental image of the cover to the shelf, but Syndetic's quality control left quite a bit to be desired; links frequently led to the wrong items.
This is billed as "an open set of APIs," which leads me to believe it *may* work, but then again I'm still trying to understand some of the underlying differences between a Windows-based system (our current ILS) and an open-source one such as Evergreen.
Technical details, if anyone would care to investigate, are here: http://code.google.com/apis/books/
Lynne, intrigued by the concept but sadly uninformed as to the practicalities <g> Lynne Welch Herrick Memorial Library Wellington OH USA
