I have an article in LLRX this month about my experiences at the DNC.
Author: jessamyn
worldcat bookmarklet – get it
Thanks to Steven Cohen and Michael Fagan and Andrea Mercado [and me, and Michael and Andrew whose emails with similar code I didn’t get til this morning], the WorldCat Lucky Bookmark lives! While I agree with Sarah that we can’t expect our patrons to grok the bookmarklet thing, as much as we might like them to, this one is [nominally] for staff. Go nuts team!
Lucky ‘Cat [in same window]
Lucky ‘Cat [in new window]
make this bookmarklet available in your library
Librarians, please go make your own library lookup bookmarklet for your patrons and install it on all of your public access machines. Make it available on your web site. If patrons are smart enough to be using Amazon to look up books, they should also be able to use this bookmarklet. I’m going to try to figure out how to add this functionality to my booklist, now that I have made ISBNs a field in my database [and just added a “buy this at Powell’s” link]
american libraries pre-1876
I thought I had the whole day free today. That was before I discovered The Davies Project and their Database of American Libraries before 1876.
This database covers institutional and commercial libraries that existed in what is now the continental United States from the time of first settlement through 1875. It records nearly 10,000 libraries. The end-date of 1876 is important because in that year the United State Bureau of Education published its first comprehensive, national listing of libraries, entitled Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their History, Condition, and Management. Special Report. Part. 1 [bespacific]
bookmarklet 90% done, can you help us finish it?
If anyone would like to help Andrea and I with a little Library Lookup app of our own, we’d sure appreciate it. Full details are over on her site. I’m aware that this issue was almost dealt with a few months back and OCLC even has their own bookmarklet page but this is a little different. It combines the bookmarklet whizbang stuff with an OCLC query to take the user from Amazon right to a list of regional libraries. Sometimes you don’t know which library has your book and often time, you don’t know which one to ILL it from. Handy? Sure, if we can get it working right.