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December 03, 2004
A Library Toolbar
This is really awesome. A toolbar for Stanford's Jackson Library that users can download. The toolbar features the catalog, databases, eJournals, etc. That is so completely, totally mind-blowing to me. Congrats to whatever librarian or librarians came up with this one. You rock! And if you're reading this, be in touch--I'm very interested in hearing how you did this. (Plus, I live close enough to you that I could buy you a beer in exchange for this wonderful information).
via Rob Coers via Tame the Web
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This is great! And it's for Firefox, which makes it even better :)
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (Librarian in Black) | February24, 2005
After having seen the Jackson IE Toolbar, I started to play with Firefox extensions and made a Firefox toolbar for my library. It is still in an early stage but you can find it at this address: http://everything.no-ip.org/mb/
Please note that I am non a programmer and this was my first experience with Xul (an xml dialect behind Firefox). Read the tutorials and try it yourself!
Gianluca
Posted by: Gianluca Drago | February22, 2005
Well, Jenny, you're still one step ahead of me. I've done some searching on this myself (as you suggest) and there is material out there on creating a toolbar for your library. Thanks, Jenny, for pulling all your related posts together here for us...it will help many of us, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (Librarian in Black) | December10, 2004
Hi, Karen --
I've been thinking on this for a couple of years now, and I've gotten some interesting feedback during that time. Check the comments on these posts (I didn't check each one, but they're my major posts on the topic), and you could try manual trackback via Technorati or Google. Sure wish I was a programmer....
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/08/03.html#a2748
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/12/11.html#a3181
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/12/17.html#a3207
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/12/18.html#a3232
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/12/21.html#a3248
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2003/01/20.html#a3475
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2003/02/24.html#a3717
I pitched the grant idea again earlier this year, but I was told we were too busy to take on anything else because we were merging with another library system at the time. I hope to try again next year.
Jenny
Posted by: Jenny Levine | December 9, 2004
That's great Grace! I'll be in contact shortly to pick your brain :) I really like what you've done...
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (Librarian in Black) | December 9, 2004
Hi Sararh,
We are in the process of developing a library toolbar. We have the software and almost have it ready. It needs to go through a text run in our Network Services department before release. We used software from http://www.besttoolbars.net to do this. It cost $100 and is well worth it.
Our toolbar with have our catalog search with options for a catalog search in Spanish, Google, and Amazon in the pull down. It will also have links to our book review database, databases, Kids site, Teen site, new books/movies/audio, and "My Account".
We look forward to releasing it to the public.
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Grace Lillevig
eBranch Librarian
Harris County Public Library
your pathway to knowledge
http://www.hcpl.net
8080 El Rio St.
Houston, TX 77054
grace@hcpl.net
Posted by: Grace Lillevig | December 6, 2004
