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Currently Rice University is experimenting with Web Services for its mobile OPAC. Two interfaces have been created, one for catalog searching and one for patron services. They are lightweight and ideal for mobile devices. In this session we will talk about how libraries can and might use Web Services now and in the future.
== GIS on the Cheap ==
* Mike Graves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gravm at email dot unc dot edu
Using a few tools that you probably already have laying around your library I'll show how OpenLayers [http://www.openlayers.org/] can be used to create a dynamic interface for browsing and searching your digital collections geographically. With very little effort Solr can be made to serve up results directly into OpenLayers creating all sorts of mapping possibilities. With a little more effort a Postgres database can handle complex polygon searches [http://dc.lib.unc.edu/ncmaps/search.php]. I'll talk about how we're developing a lightweight GIS framework to provide a new user experience for interacting with a number of our collections in unique ways.