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On 13-04-08 13:11, Andreas Orphanides wrote: > I should know this, since my wife works there... but does NoveList have an > API? I suspect not. LibraryThing might be a better option for this, for a variety of reasons, not least is its API. But the real barrier is the lack of a good API for the library's holdings information. This really is a matter of gluing together two or three systems, none of which is easy to use programmatically. - David > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David J. Fiander <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> A friend on friendfeed (no, it's not dead, and yes there's an active >> librarian community there) who works in a public library complains thusly: >> >>> I have decided that it's a goal of mine that for all series in the >>> fiction collection that circulate reasonably well, I want us to have >>> the full series. Right now, this is a cumbersome and annoying task. I >>> have to identify the series (because not all of them are cataloged as >>> such), see what we have, check the circulation, then check NoveList >>> and compare the lists and look for gaps. >> >> This strikes me as an interesting problem, but one that I can't devote >> any time to now. >> >> And there's the related question of why this is as difficult as it seems >> to be. >>