LibraryLookup is, in a manner of speaking, a mashup of online
bookstores and library catalogs.
9. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklets, accessed as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/
index.php?title=Bookmarklet&oldid=96304211
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LibraryLookup is less flashy than previous examples; it??™s also not server side, like
Housingmaps.com. It is client side like the GMiF script, but not in exactly the same way.
But it shows another way to create browser-based integration.
Let??™s look at how LibraryLookup works from the user??™s point of view. To use the LibraryLookup
bookmarklet, you need to do the following:
1. Configure a bookmarklet for the library of your choice.
2. Invoke that bookmarklet when you arrive on a web page for the book you want to look
up in your library.
Configuring a LibraryLookup Bookmarklet
Go to the LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Generator at the following URL:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookupGenerator.html
Now enter the base URL and library name, and select the catalog vendor corresponding
to your library. Consider, for example, the Berkeley Public Library (BPL). In comparing the BPL
OPAC to the examples of vendor online public access catalogs (OPACs) provided by Udell, you
can determine that the BPL OPAC is an instance of an Innovative system.
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