Those of you who attended the Advisory Committee meeting at DDL on April 22nd saw a demonstration of the LibX catalog-search add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer. In a nutshell, this is an internet browser extension that allows users to not only have direct access to the Delaware Library Catalog at all times while surfing the internet, through an additional, DLC-branded toolbar that appears in the browser below the navigation and bookmarks toolbars, but also parses the content of web pages to look for library material- related data that can be converted into direct searches of the catalog. This means that the browser can show a Delaware library card as an icon next to a book title, and the patron can click on the library card to immediately search for that book in our catalog, or that the browser will convert ISBNs to hotlinks which perform a catalog search for that specific item. LibX DLC will also place our library card icon at the top of search-engine results screens to allow users to run their searches in the catalog directly out of Yahoo! or Google.
You can access an online demonstration here. (caution, loads slowly and you will need Flash)
We're very excited to have a couple of libraries who are interested in testing this powerful tool on all of their public internet PCs. We're looking forward to their feedback about how this new service is used by their patrons.
If you're interested in installing LibX DLC on your own computer at work or at home, you can download it from the LibX.org website, or from these links:
IE version
Firefox version (recommended)
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