The Beauty of REST

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by Jon Udell March 17, 2004 I've just been to SXSW to speak on a panel called Streetwise Librarians and the Revolution in Libraries . My own small contribution to that revolution, and the reason for my visit to SXSW, is the LibraryLookup project I launched 16 months ago. I'll admit that "project" is a lofty term for what is, basically, just a bunch of variations on a simple JavaScript bookmarklet. But for thousands of patrons of hundreds of libraries, that snippet of JavaScript -- which...n

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