Hi, On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Ken Cox <kens...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone found any shortcuts to make the checkout process less cumbersome? > For instance, if the app knew the library card number a priori, could I > construct a URL that lands closer to checkout? Or login to the catalog > before following the resource link?
In the general case, no, or at least not in one fell swoop -- there are a variety of services that libraries contract with to provide ebooks, and they don't all use the same APIs. The news is better for specific services such as OverDrive, where there is work underway to have Evergreen use OverDrive's APIs to perform direct checkouts and provisioning of ebooks. As far as Axis 360 is concerned, it looks like Baker and Taylor advertises some sort of "ILS integration", but I'm not sure whether that will support direct checkout and download of ebooks via the ILS. Hopefully folks from libraries using Axis 360 will chime in. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org
