[WEB4LIB] Librarylookup Bookmarklets

[Thomas Dowling]

At 11:56 AM 12/12/2002, Levine, Jenny wrote:
>         I'm having a really interesting cross-blog conversation with Jon 
> Udell, a columnist at InfoWorld and all-around tech guy. The result (so 
> far) is a Javascript library bookmarklet for 900 Innovative libraries 
> that looks up a book's status from any web page that has an ISBN in the 
> URL (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ISBN.nu, etc.).

Simultaneously, the OpenURL list is nodding in sage agreement that the ISBN 
is nearly useless for identifying a text.  OhioLINK gave up on ISBN-based 
links several years ago, except as an absolute last resort.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu