The full title of this presentation was ‘Building a Web Service for the Library World, from the Ground Up’ and that’s exactly what the three presenters covered. We heard about the project’s beginnings and current status, what it means for content providers, and how it affects vendors of ERMs (Electronic Resource Management packages). The presenters gave the audience a thorough introduction to SUSHI and its implications for libraries, and I left feeling much better informed about the project and its significance for libraries, publishers, and ERM package vendors. Adam Chandler, Co-ordinator, Service Design Group, Information Technology and Technical Services, Cornell University Library, and also co-chair of the SUSHI Working Group, started by saying that retrieval of COUNTER usage statistics is currently a bottleneck. Most libraries currently do this by visiting individual publisher or aggregator websites, locating the desired statistics, and either displaying them or downloading an Excel file. The process…