international my-library bookmarklet service WAS library marketing was RE: Google Mail

[Stephen.DeGabrielle at nt.gov.au]

An 'international my-library bookmarklet service'

How hard could this be? 

The browser already identifies the country of origin
Get the user to enter a zip/postal region code/locality

National libraries could have a 'resolver' that took the location and 
forwards it on to the appropriate library. 

This could be done internationally - all from the one 
bookmarklet/embeddable bit of html ala Amazon.

I'm sorry - this doesn't seem that hard. It would be cheap to build  and 
inexpensive to run. Why weren't we doing this 5 years ago?

s.

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Stephen De Gabrielle
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I'm sick of the Internet - I want a yabby net.

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>> >Why is it that sites with ISBNs have links to Amazon or Barnes and
>> >Noble and Powell's, but never to your public library?
>>
>> Most websites tend to have a larger audience than those situated
>> geographically close to the local library, so it makes sense to link to
>> sites that are perceived to be global like Amazon. Though certainly it
>> would be nice if people started linking to National Library holdings,
>> that would be a start. And libraries could have a great opportunity to


>> To start with, Amazon, among other things, has made it ridiculously 
easy for
>> sites to link to them. It took me only part of an evening and two free
[...]
>> allow the reader to put in a zip code or something that simple.





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