{"id":233,"date":"2005-06-23T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2005-06-23T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T17:07:59","slug":"weaving_libraries_into_the_web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/weaving_libraries_into_the_web\/","title":{"rendered":"weaving libraries into the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great feature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> web browser is the little search window built right into the toolbar next to the address field. It&#8217;s set to Google as a default, but you can add other common search engines or knowledge bases like Yahoo, IMDB, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, dictionaries and others &#8211; a customized reference suite right in your browser. What if you could put a card catalogue in there too? John Wohlers, of the Todd Library at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, Illinois has built a <a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/\">searchlet<\/a> that effectively does this. It&#8217;s not like <a href=\"http:\/\/print.google.com\/\">Google Print<\/a>, where you can actually browse scanned copies of the book, but it takes a step toward integrating libraries with the web &#8211; an important move if they are to remain relevant in a world where browsers and search engines are the primary research tools.<br \/>\nWohlers is also working on building library search into desktop tools. Windows users can find instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/engine\/95\">here<\/a> for putting the Todd Library catalogue into your Microsoft Office 2003 Research Pane.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/serving_your_users_in_their_offices.html\">The Shifted Librarian<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great feature of the Firefox web browser is the little search window built right into the toolbar next to the address field. It&#8217;s set to Google as a default, but you can add other common search engines or knowledge bases like Yahoo, IMDB, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, dictionaries and others &#8211; a customized reference suite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060],"tags":[2648],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries-search-and-the-web","tag-library-web-online-search-firefox-browser-searchlet-book-books-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}