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nichtich edited this page Nov 28, 2012 · 4 revisions

Some possible use cases collected from comments:

  • Integration with client-side notification system e.g., pull overdue or resource availability events
  • Alerting service via email, twitter, text message...
  • Sync online social network profiles with library systems to find people with common interests based on book selection
  • Export due dates to calendar
  • Renew you books via bot
  • Sync patron loans with reference manager: Zotero, Citavi etc. - some of these seem to support a "my loans" function yet (?)
  • Tweet "I have just checked out X at Y library!"
  • Access licensed databases: You could think of a database as a document which can be requested - so the patron sends a PAIA "requestItems" and the resulting document state is 3 ("held") or 4 ("provided") on success and 5 ("rejected") on failure.
  • ...
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