State Library of Western Australia. (2009, February 1). Creating and keeping your digital treasures: February 2009. . Retrieved October 20, 2010, from http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/digital_treasures
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program
NATIONAL AND STATE LIBRARIES OF AUSTRALASIA'S LIBRARY HACK PROJECT
Warren, M., & Hayward, R. (2012). Hacking the nation: Libraryhack and community-created aps. VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures. Presented at the VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-12-warren
WEB START PAGES AS LIBRARY HOME PAGES
This is long, so just browse it to get the gist of the tools examined and the criteria used.
Pigott, C. (2009). An Alternative to Existing Library Websites: Evaluation of Nine Start Pages Using Criteria Extracted from Library Literature. School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz//handle/10063/1276
SELECTING THE RIGHT TOOL FOR A PORTAL-BASED SUBJECT GUIDE
Valenza, J. (2011). My Perpetual Pursuit of the Perfect Pathfinder Platform. VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates. Retrieved from http://www.voya.com/2011/03/18/tag-team-tech-april-2011/
This reading is OK. But really, XML is not a programming language as the author claims. Really.
Delquie, E., & Polanka, S. (2011). E-book Standards. In No shelf required: e-books in libraries (pp. 135-151). Chicago: American Library Association. Retrieved from http://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60267198.pdf
Rainie, L., Zickuhr, K., Purcell, K., Madden, M., & Brenner, J. (2012). The rise of e-reading. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Retrieved from http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/ (Read just the summary at the start or browse the whole report