{"id":2512,"date":"2008-10-03T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2008-10-03T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:57:18","slug":"text-yourself-from-the-opac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/text-yourself-from-the-opac.html","title":{"rendered":"Text Yourself from the OPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am playing catch-up in many areas right now, and as a result there hasn&#8217;t been as much activity here.\u00a0 Hopefully the time of less activity has reached a middle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An interesting new feature that has begun to appear in OPACs is the ability to send the location\/call# of an item to your cell phone as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Short_message_service\">Short Message Service (SMS)<\/a> text.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/icpl.org\/\">Iowa City Public Library<\/a> has implemented this into their Innovative (III) catalog, as you can see in <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.icpl.org\/search\/t?SEARCH=l8r+g8r&amp;SUBMIT=Search\">this example<\/a>.\u00a0 It becomes the equivalent of writing yourself a quick note for when you are physically in the library to find the item.<\/p>\n<p>While this service might seem to be targeted to a small portion of library users, I suspect that it is worthwhile to implement. if only because the people who will use it will find it exceptionally handy.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/theshiftedlibrarian.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/26\/add-sms-to-your-iii-catalog.html\">The Shifted Librarian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am playing catch-up in many areas right now, and as a result there hasn&#8217;t been as much activity here.\u00a0 Hopefully the time of less activity has reached a middle&#8230; An interesting new feature that has begun to appear in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/text-yourself-from-the-opac.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2944,2952,2953,2977],"tags":[3003,3970,3819,4036,4035,4655],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-online-services","category-opac","category-web-design","tag-cellular-telephone","tag-iii","tag-innovative-interfaces-inc","tag-iowa-city-public-library","tag-sms","tag-the-shifted-librarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}