[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Android app and 856 links, any shortcuts?

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Ken Cox <kenstir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone found any shortcuts to make the checkout process less cumbersome?
> For instance, if the app knew the library card number a priori, could I
> construct a URL that lands closer to checkout?  Or login to the catalog
> before following the resource link?

In the general case, no, or at least not in one fell swoop -- there
are a variety of services that libraries contract with to provide
ebooks, and they don't all use the same APIs.  The news is better for
specific services such as OverDrive, where there is work underway to
have Evergreen use OverDrive's APIs to perform direct checkouts and
provisioning of ebooks.

As far as Axis 360 is concerned, it looks like Baker and Taylor
advertises some sort of "ILS integration", but I'm not sure whether
that will support direct checkout and download of ebooks via the ILS.
Hopefully folks from libraries using Axis 360 will chime in.

Regards,

Galen
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