Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Services for intermediate consumers

Lorcan Dempsey comes up with an interesting way of thinking about the services your library can provide online

a major question for the library becomes: how do I expose services to a search engine? to a learning management system? to an RSS aggregator? And this really moves us to think quite seriously about the types of services we make available, and how we make them available.

from Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Services for intermediate consumers

In my organization, we are just beginning to think about this using Service-Oriented Architecture methodologies.  I think the quote above helps in thinking about the organization from the outside in.  What do we want to provide, depending on what outside interface is being used?