Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Innovation gets you noticed
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library got a fly-by mention in a recent "Wired News" article, The Firefox Hacks You Must Have:
If CHUHPL isn't your local library, or if you don't run Firefox and the extensions that make tricks like this work, you might explore the LibraryLookup project. Here you can find a "bookmarklet" specific to your library (I count 141 Ohio academic, school, public, and special library links already on the site) or create a bookmarklet of your own.
Want to see if book titles on Amazon.com are available at the Cleveland Heights Public Library?This is because CHUHPL is one of the libraries that have written and posted a script to query their catalog to userscripts.org. This is a fantastic example of one small thing a library can do to meet its users where the users are.
If CHUHPL isn't your local library, or if you don't run Firefox and the extensions that make tricks like this work, you might explore the LibraryLookup project. Here you can find a "bookmarklet" specific to your library (I count 141 Ohio academic, school, public, and special library links already on the site) or create a bookmarklet of your own.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I finally loaded the LibraryLookup bookmarklet and it's a really cool and useful tool! I can't wait to start telling people about this.
I hope the libraries that can utilize this bookmarklet promote it to their users.
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I hope the libraries that can utilize this bookmarklet promote it to their users.
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