Book description
Libraries are increasingly demanding the ability to exploit their
library systems (LIS) using application programming interfaces (APIs),
Web services, or other technologies. This issue of Library Technology
Reports explores how vendors of open source library technology are
approaching this desire for customization plus an in-depth exploration
of trends towards APIs, Web services, and the service-oriented
architecture. Topics Covered in this Issue Include: Why Should Libraries
Care about Application Programming Interfaces? APIs: Basic Concepts
Vendors and Products: Case Studies and Customer Responses API Hype and
Reality Conclusions and resources Marshall Breeding serves as the
Director for Innovative Technology and Research at the Vanderbilt
University Libraries in Nashville, Tennessee. He has authored several
previous Library Technology Report issues: “Electronic Security
Strategies for Libraries,” “Strategies for Measuring and Implementing
E-Use,” “Integrated Library Software: A Guide to Multiuser,
Multifunction Systems,” “Wireless Networks in Libraries,” “Web Services
and the Service-Oriented Architecture,” and “Open Source Integrated
Library Systems.” Breeding is also a contributing editor to Smart
Libraries Newsletter, published by ALA TechSource, and has authored the
feature “Automated Systems Marketplace” for Library Journal for the last
six years. His column “Systems Librarian” appears monthly in Computers
in Libraries magazine.
