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Yes. A COinS object could/would allow users using LibX to be directed to my link resolver, to find an alternate licensed ebook copy of that book, to issue an ILL request for a print version, or to find a print version on the local libraries shelves. It is important that the COinS object includes ISBN, LCCN and/or OCLCnum, if those identifiers are available for a given record. It is also useful it it contains a rfr_id identifying Open Library as the source. Jonathan Karen Coyle wrote: > I have a question to ask for the Open Library folks and I couldn't > quite figure out where to ask it. This seems like a good place. > > Would it be useful to embed COinS in the book pages of the Open > Library? Does anyone think they might make use of them? > > Thanks, > kc > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu