Depends on what catalog system your local library is using. Many use the open source Evergreen ILS. It has a very robust API that I've used quite a bit for discovery.

There are some others, just one example.

Point being though is that every library system is different.

AI can help with that too! Have it pwn the library's public endpoints to get access to their catalog.

I have made extensive use of this while building my library book recommender doodad https://leafle.org

The LLMs are very good at reverse engineering undocumented apis!

Isn't Linode pretty darn close? IaaS/PaaS provider. Sure it's not one of the Big Three but that is it's role.

It should be a signal to others that they aren't getting involved.

those orgs don't have infinite resources. I think you are suggesting there's something nefarious about this.

The point was non alignment with the two superpowers.

Both Russia and China are observer states within the non-aligned movement.

I'm pretty sure that is a more recent development, and that at least the Soviet Union and China weren't observers during the cold war. (But I haven't looked it up.)