Category Archives: Ideas

Cool things others are doing in the library or tech community that might be useful for me in the future. Or just generally things I’ve seen that I think are pretty cool.

Amazon S3 Pricing Changes!

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

It looks like Amazon Web Services has come up with a new tiered pricing system. Dear Amazon Web Services Developer, As you know, our goal is to drive down our costs relentlessly, and to pass on those savings to our … Continue reading →

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WorldCat API

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

There has been a lot of information out there about WorldCat and to be honest I can’t keep it all straight.  So here is my reading list: The splash page for the WorldCat API WorldCat’s Developer network houses the WorldCat … Continue reading →

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Brown University’s easyBorrow

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Rosalyn Metz

Brown has developed something called EasyBorrow that consists of a number of APIs that allow students to do one search and one ILL request. The system seems to work off of a number of custom APIs, most of which could … Continue reading →

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