Tag Archives: API

NYT Best Sellers API

Posted on 27 January 2009 by Rick Mason

The New York Times Blog announced today that they have released an API for their Best Sellers list.  Library programmers should jump on this.  Imagine being able to display information about an item’s rankings – dates, placement, etc. – in … Continue reading →

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Creative III Shelf Browse Hack

Posted on 13 August 2008 by Rick Mason

Saw a shelf browse created for an Innovative (III) OPAC that is quite neat.  It lives on a development site for the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada and integrates Syndetic Solutions book covers into a pseudo-shelf listing.  Here is … Continue reading →

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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 2)

Posted on 2 July 2008 by Rick Mason

continued from here… Evergreen and Project Conifer (John Fink) was a progress report / Q&A session about the installation of the Evergreen ILS for a consortium of academic libraries (McMaster University, University of Windsor, and Laurentian University). John gave a … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Accord

Posted on 11 April 2008 by Rick Mason

ILS Basic Discovery Interfaces, a.k.a the Berkeley Accord In what may turn out to be a historically significant event in the history of library tech, a group called the ILS Discovery Task Force has generated an outline detailing what amounts … Continue reading →

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Google Books API

Posted on 17 March 2008 by Rick Mason

This is a few days old, but it is still an important bit of news : Google has opened it’s Application Programming Interface (API) to developers. What this means for libraries is that they now have the potential to link … Continue reading →

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Code4Lib Journal

Posted on 17 December 2007 by Rick Mason

Issue 1 of the Code4Lib Journal is now available! The journal is an open-access journal dealing with, well, the more techie aspects of libraries. Even if you aren’t into systems and web coding, you should still look this over. The … Continue reading →

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