[Web4lib] google & library catalogs

[Annette Bailey]

You could also contact us at LibX and have us build a LibX Firefox
extension for you that gives your users the ability to search your
catalog from a toolbar and right-click context menu.  We also embed
cues in pages, such as the Google search results page, that allow
users to run the same search against your library's catalog with one
click.

"In the same vein, they'd
offer library findability from inside Google Book Search. "

LibX offers that with a cue (your logo).

It's free, it's open source, and it does a whole lot more than what I
mentioned above.

Virginia Tech's edition is here with a brief list of features:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/libX/libX.php

More information is here:
http://libx.org/

Annette

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Annette Bailey
Digital Assets Librarian
Newman Library
Virginia Tech University Libraries
Blacksburg, Virginia
PH: (540) 231-9266


On 4/13/06, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> > In a bit of a pre-coffee haze, but wondering....is there a way to save
> > this kind of search on Google, so it's available when you need it, so
> > you don't have to remember the secret handshake phrase?  I'm not likely
> > to use this often, so won't remember it, I'm sure.
>
> You can install a toolbar, courtesy of OCLC, but if Google was betting on
> paper books and real libraries, they'd implement this feature directly in
> Google itself, not leaving us to provide an add-on. In the same vein, they'd
> offer library findability from inside Google Book Search. (And if libraries
> participating in this project had a clue, they would have insisted that this
> be a prerequisite for participation. How good we are at contributing to our
> own demise.) If GBS becomes the de facto book finding aid for the body
> politic (something I don't see as long as the focus is on academic books),
> we're all hosed. I always worry we're just seeing Phase One from them.
>
> It is interesting to see Google experiment with faceting and metadata, after
> years of promoting search uber alles. I wonder if Ask.com is making them
> feel any heat?
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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