“Hi there – came across this post referencing our new catalogue interface, and thought I’d take a moment to...” 
“Arguing that getting together and discussing various moralities is a religion is like saying that going to the Firestone...” 
“I disagree with you. I find it both entertaining and enlightening to read someone’s deconstruction of religion.” 
“I’ve installed the newest version and now simply accessing the options page gives the same “You do not have sufficient...” 
“Getting the same error, no matter what my permissions are set at.” 06
DEC
2009
Hello Ottawa Public Library
And no, that isn’t a membership card in my pocket. I’m just happy to see your new catalog. Your FANTASTIC new catalog.
The crunky old catalog has been replaced with a shiny new BiblioCommons website. With a bit of searching, I managed to track down some info on BiblioCommons:
- They have a terrible website.
- Their founder, Beth Jefferson, appears to be a mix of volunteer-ist and entrepreneur (imagine that!).
- Beth talks about BiblioCommons in a podcast I haven’t listened to yet.
- They seem to snarf information from Amazon. (Their images come directly from Amazon)
- I am addicted to annotating books.
As far as I can tell, they don’t have an official API. I managed to find a Drupal module that professes to do BiblioCommons stuff, but I don’t know enough about Drupal to tell what it’s up to.
And their login pages confuse cURL. Boo!
