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SCSB is designed to enable efficient, real-time transactions between the partner integrated library systems (ILS), their web-accessible discovery environments, and the inventory management system (IMS) or storage facility’s system.
One side SCSB talks to institution library systems using SIP2 or NCIP or REST APIs and on the other side it talks to inventory management systems using REST APIs
The following diagram depicts the the environment (of the collaborating systems) where the solution fits in. SCSB is the middleware solution.
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