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        <h2>Introduction</h2>
        <p>The goal of this site is to help librarians (coders and non-coders alike) quickly and easily make their web presences
            stronger by tapping into the wonderful world of APIs. There's a staggering amount of useful data offered to the
            world through APIs - whether it be from Springshare, OCLC, The Internet Archive, DPLA, weather services, or many others. With some
            code you can pull, manipulate, and display useful data for your users.</p>

        <p>This site is geared towards librarians who aren't web developers but who would like to enhance their LibGuides or
            library websites. Explanations are provided regarding what an implementation does and what exactly you need to
            change in it so that you can use it. If you are a coder, then you can perhaps skip over some of the documentation
            and copy the code right away.</p>

        <p>This is a project in ongoing development. I hope to continually add new implementations. If you have used an API
            and would like to share your code on this site... great! Let me know.</p>

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            Browse by services
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            Springshare
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            <h4 class="post-side-title" id="libguides">LibGuides</h4>
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                {% for libguide in site.libguides %}
                <li class="{{libguide.tags|join:' '}}">  
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ libguide.url}}">{{libguide.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {% endfor %}
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">LibCal</h4>
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                {% for libcals in site.libcal %}
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                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ libcals.url}}" >{{libcals.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {% endfor %}

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                LibAnswers &amp; LibChat
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                {% for libanswer in site.libanswers %}
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                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ libanswer.url}}">{{libanswer.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {% endfor %}

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            <h4 class="post-side-title" id="libguides">Custom Authorization Server</h4>
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                {% for server in site.servers %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ server.url}}">{{server.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {% endfor %}
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            Google
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Google Calendar

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                {% for page in site.google %} {% if page.tags contains "google-calendar" %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%} {% endfor %}
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            ExLibris
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Primo

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                {% for page in site.exlibris %} {% if page.tags contains "primo" %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%}  {% endfor %}
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            ContentDM
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Resource Promotion

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                {% for page in site.contentDM %}  
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                  {% endfor %}
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            The Internet Archive
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Audio &amp; Video Collections

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                {% for page in site.archivedotorg %} {% if page.tags contains "audio-and-video-collections" %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%} {% endfor %}
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Text Collections

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            <ul class="custom-dots">
                {% for page in site.archivedotorg %} {% if page.tags contains "text-collections" %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%} {% endfor %}
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            Quotes
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Quotes.net</h4>
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                {% for page in site.quotes %}
                {% if page.tags contains "quotesnet" %}
                <li style="list-style-type: none;">
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%} {% endfor %}



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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Quotes on Design

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                {% for page in site.quotes %} {% if page.tags contains "quotesdesign" %}
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                {%endif%} {% endfor %}
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            Wordnik
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            <h4 class="post-side-title">Fun with words

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                {% for page in site.wordnik %}  
                <li>
                    <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ page.url}}">{{page.title}}</a>
                </li>
                  {% endfor %}
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