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Hello all, I wanted to put the word out that Carleton University Library is working on a wrapper around III's Sierra API. Our main use case will be displaying a 'live' item status in Ares, our course reserves system. We can edit the Ares html templates, so a bit of Javascript querying the API seemed like a good fit. Here's the documentation for the API: https://sandbox.iii.com/docs/Default.htm III is using OAuth v2.0 for this API, and authentication is required for every request. Instead of storing the authentication information in javascript, I wanted to open up the API and use CORS or a firewall to restrict access. I also wanted to be able to cache, rate-limit, define what parts of the API we wanted to open, etc. Basically, I wanted more control. I've started working on a small utility to serve as a proxy to the API, an alpha/proof-of-concept version is here: https://github.com/cudevmaxwell/tyro If you're a Sierra shop, please let me know what features you'd like to see in the final release. Thank you, Kevin Bowrin, Programmer, Carleton University Library