Giles' Library Related Browser Add-ons

For a quick list of Browser Addons see Library Browser Search Add-ons

Both Firefox and Internet Explorer currently (or will shortly) appear on many staff and public PCs around the College. The following are some additions that are library specific add-ons that you may want on your computer. There are bookmarklets (tiny JavaScript programs contained in a bookmark) that allow you to do quick searches of things like WorldCat or our library and search box plug-ins for Firefox. Some are browser neutral others are specific to particular browsers. They are grouped by browser below: Browser Neutral Firefox Internet Explorer

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BROWSER NEUTRAL

Worldcat/Google Bookmarklet

Here's the bookmarklet. Get it (drag it to your favorites links). View any page with an ISBN in the URL (such as on Amazon), and then click the bookmarklet to be taken to the WorldCat record for the book. You'll see who in WorldCat owns the book. The bookmarklet comes in two flavors: Open Record in WorldCat (Same win) (opens in the same window) Open Record in WorldCat (New Win) (opens in a new window)

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FIREFOX

The Bookmarklets will work in Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, Netscape 6.x/7.x, and Opera 7.x; they should also work in any browser based on the Netscape Gecko engine -- which most of the ones above are -- such as K-Meleon and Safari. The plug-ins will work in either Mozilla or Firefox and possibly other Gecko based browsers.

CCBC Library Search Box Plug-ins

For Automatic Installation, click on the "Install" link below (and ignore the DL/SRC and DL/GIF links). Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (GENERAL) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Author) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Title) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Subject) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Keyword) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Call no.) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox Install the CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (ISBN) Plug-in for Mozilla or Firefox To install a plug-in manually, RIGHT CLICK on the DL/SRC link on the line for it below then click on "save target as" to copy it. Repeat the process for the DL/GIF link. You will want to store them in the "searchplugins" directory under your Firefox directory; the default location is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins. If you want all of them, they are in a zip file that you merely extract to the searchplugins directory in Firefox to install. CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (GENERAL) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Author) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Title) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Subject) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Keyword) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (Call No.) DL/SRC DL/GIF CCBC Libraries Catalog Search (ISBN) DL/SRC DL/GIF Grab All DL/ZIP Note: These plugins can also be installed for use with versions 6.x and 7.x of Opera; for further information on doing this, check out the web page at: nontroppo.org/wiki/SearchInOpera

Software Downloads:

Firefox: www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

CCBC Library Bookmarklets

The bookmarklets below all search the library catalog by a specifc index the same as you could by going out to: http://library.ccbcmd.edu/search~S4/ They are are sensitive to the currently selected text in the browser window. This means that if you have the surname of someone selected on a web page and you click on the "Author..." bookmarklet it will automatically perform an author search at the library for that person's surname. If there is no currently selected text then the bookmarklets will prompt you for any information that they require in a pop-up dialog box. To save a bookmarklet to your browser, you can either drag and drop it , putting it on the links bar of your browser or bring up the context-sensitive menu (i.e. right click in Windows, or command-click on the Mac) and then add the link directly to your favorites/bookmarks, (select "Add to bookmarks...").

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INTERNET EXPLORER                                                         
These bookmarklets will also work in any IE based browsers such as: Crazy Browser, 
Avant Browser, Maxthon (formerly MyIE), Phase Out, Deepnet as well as a number of 
others.

CCBC Library Bookmarklets
The bookmarklets below all search the library catalog by a specifc index the same
as you could by going out to: http://library.ccbcmd.edu/search~S4/

They are are sensitive to the currently selected text in the browser window. This 
means that if you have the surname of someone selected on a web page and you click 
on the "Author..." bookmarklet it will automatically perform an author search at 
the library for that person's surname. If there is no currently selected text then 
the bookmarklets will prompt you for any information that they require in a pop-up
dialog box.

To save a bookmarklet to your browser, you can either drag and drop it , putting it 
on the links bar of your browser or bring up the context-sensitive  menu (i.e. right 
click in Windows, or command-click on the Mac) and then add the link directly to your 
favorites/bookmarks, (select "Add to favorites...".)


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                                       
The Worldcat/Google Bookmarklet was developed by Jessamyn West, Andrea Mercado 
and Michael Fagan and appeared on the LibraryStuff web page (www.librarystuff.net). 
It was based on John Udell's Library Lookup Bookmarklets 
(weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html).

The III Search Plug-ins were based on work done by Corey Seeman of University of 
Toledo (library.utoledo.edu/userhomes/cseeman/plugin/ut.html) and 
distributed through the IUG Clearinghouse for use by other III libraries at : 
www.innopacusers.org/clearinghouse.

The III Bookmarklets were based on work done by Rob Saunders for the University 
of Sydney (Australia) and distributed via his web page at: 
www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/bookmarklets.html
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION                                            
For additional information on Bookmarklets, check out www.bookmarklets.com

For additional Firefox search plug-ins, click on  the search box, go to the 
bottom of the list and click on  " Add Engines..." which will take you to: 
mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html

A complete "generic" archive of this page and plug-ins, etc. is available 
by downloading libcats.zip.

For additional useful files, see also:
	
	My Useful Firefox Extensions Page
	My Misc. Useful Programs Page

This page is maintained by Giles Riesner at the Community College of Baltimore County.
It was last updated on 10 June 2005.

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