SILRC Retreat -- Session 3

After lunch, we got a presentation from Brad Whetzel of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a current library school student, about library toolbars. He's just past the playing with the idea phase, which is one step farther along the path than we've achieved in our library, so it should help speed us through that.

For playing around with things, he used Conduit. BizBar looks quite similar. Best Tool Bars has more complicated offerings including a deskbar that shows up at the bottom of the desktop instead of the top of the browser window.

A related but different sort of beast is the LibX extension for Firefox. It offers a customizable toolbar, OpenURL support, and library logos that indicate in Amazon or other on-line bookstores that the library owns that book.

It doesn't look like these are customizable, but I imagine some patrons would be interested in the Ebscohost toolbar and the OCLC toolbar.

Labels: conferences, toolbars

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