[Noisebridge-discuss] Open source web based library catalog system?

[Ceren Ercen]

Alternative solution: http://www.rentalic.com/

They were at Maker Faire. I think they're pretty neat. They have a free 
"cost" option. They're interested in doing a Noisebridge-specific 
subsite as an experiment in how they could build subdomains specific to 
communities or orgs.

I think this is very cool.

They've offered to bring pizza and beer and talk with us about our 
needs/wants; ie: anonymous "renters", api-downloadable data, etc?

I think it'd be cool to encourage a company like this to build/provide 
an anonymous option for their product, too, even if other orgs generally 
wouldn't use it.

hysteria and company-bashing may now commence but I'm gonna try to 
ignore it. I wasn't going to bring this up until I had more experience 
with their site, but it seems relevant right now.

- Ceren
(who's hereby volunteering to sit there with a barcode scanner for hours 
or typing ISBN numbers till her fingers get all numb.)



Utterly tangental, does anyone know from where it might be fully legally 
allowable to do: "* Book search returns results with descriptions and a 
cover scraped from some other part of the internet." I suspect there are 
legal sources, I just don't know what they are.