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Facebook is unfriendly to library search applications

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Facebook Shuns Some Library Search Tools by Brock Read. Academe Today, July 5, 2007.

Some librarians designed software intended to let students search library card catalogs, but were told that Facebook prohibits applications with “Web-search functionality of any kind.”

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