Over on the Panlibus blog, I recently reflected [1] on current interest in
the humble - and much maligned - union catalogue. To demonstrate some of the
ways in which the Talis Platform can power current and future union
catalogues of various types, why not set aside an hour in your calendar to
join your peers in a Talis-hosted webinar on the topic?

Building Union Catalogues with the Talis Platform
Thursday 22 February, 1500GMT - 1600GMT

The business model, attitude and technology behind the Talis Platform
fundamentally shift the proposition around the construction, maintenance and
use of union catalogue-type applications, from the formal groupings
prevalent today through to a new breed of ad hoc unions capable of cheaply,
rapidly and sustainably meeting the needs of non-traditional institutional
groupings or even individuals.

- Freely shared - yet adequately protected - bibliographic or holdings data
- Freely exposed basic Directory information about a library and its
capabilities
- Open, extensible and web-strength apis.

Put them together to push library information in front of users of Amazon
and LibraryThing. Put them together to raise the profile of your holdings in
Google Scholar. Put them together to build an 'application' such as Project
Cenote in a matter of days. Put them together to power your existing union
catalogue more scalably, affordably and extensibly than ever before. Put
them together to build a union catalogue you've never been able to afford or
justify before, or painlessly build several and meet the varied needs of
your different audiences.

Join Talis' Ian Davis, Paul Miller, Rob Styles and Richard Wallis along with
your peers for an exploration of that which is possible today, and an
opportunity to discuss the possibilities.

To register for this free webinar, just email myself or my colleague Richard
Wallis here at Talis [2]. All you need to participate is an hour in your
diary, a computer capable of running the WebEx client [3], and a telephone
with which to dial (free) in to the conversation. For the keen or the
uncertain, see this guide to the WebEx system as used by Talis [4].

I look forward to sharing some of our ideas with you on the call, and to
hearing your views before, during, and after.

Paul


[1] - http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/01/are_union_catal.php

[2] - [log in to unmask]

[3] - http://www.webex.com/go/stest-demoau

[4] - http://www.talis.com/services/documents/webex_talis.pdf  [PDF]



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