| Summary: | Library information discovery is a vital aspect in the education development and management. Nowadays, there are many libraries offer the information regarding to facilities, resources and services to users through their website. The existing library information systems discover only their information and not integrate the information from other libraries. Therefore, web service method has been developed, which is uses a standard interface to enable the consumer and business (C2B) or business and business (B2B) easily interact over the website. Currently, there is no standard model is developed to facilitate the users to discover and integrate the information of facilities, resources and services that published in the Iibraries website. The aim of this study is to develop a web service model that can discover and integrate the information in the various libraries website to the users by using Java Technology application program interface and tools provided by the integrated Web Services Stack. In the modelling process, the library websites are convened into Extensive Markup Language format (XML) for examining the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) of each website. The convened XML files are stored as the application data source, which lies as the core of the web service model. By using an XML parser, the XML files are parsed into XMLDOM format for manipulating its contents. In the final process, XML request object hypertext protocol is used to receive or reload the data from the client to the server. Meanwhile, I-ITML and cascading style sheet (CSS) are used to reload the information to the client as the response and display the discovered information. In the evaluation phase, the discovery process is focussed to library facilities, services, e-books and online database subscriptions. The results show that the proposed model is able to extract over 93.0% of information regarding to user's query on facilities, resources and services provided in the library websites. The contributions of the study can benefit library's users such as public user, student, teacher, and researchers to extract the provided library's facilities, resources and services by intelligently discover its websites.
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