Z39.50 has been a useful technology for searching library catalogs and individual databases for many years, but it presents certain implementation challenges–Bath or SUTRS?
The Open Search specification is interesting, since it promises much the same thing. It was initiated by a commercial entity–A9–and some libraries are starting to pay attention to it as a supplement for SR/U and Z39.50.
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or, The love of technology. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
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– What SERU Solves
4 March 2008
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