The
open source community of software developers working on and supporting the
eXtensible Catalog’s (XC) NCIP Toolkit, http://code.google.com/p/xcncip2toolkit/
is extremely happy to announce the first production use of the new NCIP Toolkit
that supports version 2.0 of the NCIP protocol.
Lehigh
University, a member of Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc (PALCI)
is using the XC NCIP Toolkit as a way to perform circulation functions between
their SirsiDynix Symphony ILS and the newly released resource sharing
system named E-ZBorrow. Last year, PALCI selected Relais D2D
to power their E-ZBorrow resource sharing system for 52 academic
libraries
in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia. E-ZBorrow allows
patrons to search across the member library catalogs and request circulating
items directly from any partner library.
Lehigh
is able to participate in this resource sharing system through development of a
SirsiDynix NCIP “connector” that uses the following NCIP services:
·
Lookup
User
·
CheckIn
Item
·
CheckOut
Item
·
Accept
Item
Lehigh
University plans to make this open source NCIP connector available shortly for
other SirsiDynix clients and an announcement will be made when the connector is
available.
Randall Cook, PMP
eXtensible Catalog Organization
University of Rochester River Campus Libraries
585-273-2042
rcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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