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# Library way
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/library-way/
- Published: 2006-09-05T21:59:42.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:40.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, Systems

[E41ST](https://www.amitgupta.info/E41ST/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) uses Flex 2, Amazon web services, and ‘your public library’ to connect an Amazon browsing experience with a look up in a local public library. 

> E41ST is an attempt at making a corner of the web look the way I like to see it! Named after New York’s [East 41st Street](https://www.grandcentralpartnership.org/what%5Fwe%5Fdo/beautify%5Flibrary%5Fway.asp?ref=lorcandempsey.net) (Library Way), it provides an integrated interface for Browsing (at Amazon)-and-Looking-up (at Library). The current version meets my basic needs, but I will continue to evolve it based on Feedback/Suggestions from likeminded people (must love libraries!). \[[Amit Gupta :: E41ST](https://www.amitgupta.info/E41ST/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

In the terms used in these pages, this is connecting an Amazon discovery experience with a library location service. As I discuss [elsewhere](https://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), I think that this scenario – played out in various ways – will become much more common.  
Related article:

- [The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts](https://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

Related entries:

- [A palindromic ILS service layer](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000927.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Lifting out the catalog discovery experience](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001021.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

Via [Bill McCoy](https://blogs.adobe.com/billmccoy/2006/07/e41st%5Flibraries.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net).