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Dear Steelsen and Code4Libbers:

My apologies, but I'm not quite sure I understand the difference between
what you are building and what an interlibrary loan application would
provide (for which there are many products available).  You are probably
aware of those options (we use VDX right now for statewide lending and
requesting); there's at least one open source ILL option called FulfILLment
(http://www.fulfillment-ill.org/) that may help?  Is what you are doing
more seamless than that type of software?  Perhaps someone else has a more
educated response.

In peace,

Amy M. Drayer, MLIS
Senior IT Specialist, Web Developer
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http://www.puzumaki.com

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Smith, Steelsen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to this list, so if there are any conventions I'm ignoring I'd
> appreciate someone letting me know.
>
> I'm working on a project to allow requests that will go to multiple
> systems to be aggregated in a requesting interface. It would be implemented
> as an independent application, allow a "shopping list" of items to be
> added, and be able to perform some back end business logic (availability
> checking, metadata enrichment, etc.).
>
> This seems like a very common use case so I'm surprised that I've had
> trouble finding anyone who has published an application that works like
> this - the closest I've found being Umlaut which doesn't seem to support
> multiple simultaneous requesting (although I couldn't get as far as
> "request" in any sample system to be certain). Is anyone on the list aware
> of such a project?
>
> Thanks,
> Steelsen
>
>
>
> ___________________________
> Steelsen Smith
> Fulfillment Systems Specialist
> Enterprise Systems Group
> Yale Library IT
> 203.432.3333
>