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Suppose you're shopping on Amazon for a book like Lawrence Lessig's '''Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity''', and you wonder if your local library has a copy of the book. Amazon displays the ISBN near the title or product details. The catalog for the [http://www.mvlc.org/Libraries Merrimack Valley Library Consortium] supports lookup by ISBN. If you perform the search, you'll notice that the resulting URL for that search is | This page is about a useful bookmarklet (executable JavaScript bookmark) that let's you search the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC). There is also a [[:Category:Library|Library]] category for all things library. | ||
== The bookmarklet == | |||
Want this [[wp:bookmarklet|bookmarklet]]? Drag the following link to your browser bookmark bar: <html><a href="javascript: (function(){var t=window.getSelection?window.getSelection().toString():document.selection.createRange().text;var re = /[\s\-xX0-9]{10,17}/;var OK = re.exec(t);if (!OK) {alert(t + ' is not a valid ISBN\n Please just select a 10 or 13 digit ISBN\ndashes and spaces are OK');} else {t = t.replace(/[\-\s]/,'');window.location='http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;locg=1;pane=numeric;query='+t}})();">Search MVLC</a></html> | |||
== Description == | |||
Suppose you're shopping on Amazon for a book like Lawrence Lessig's '''[http://www.amazon.com/Free-Culture-Technology-Control-Creativity/dp/1594200068 Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity]''', and you wonder if your local library has a copy of the book. Amazon displays the '''<abbr title='ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. ISBNs are 10-digit or 13-digit codes used by the publishing industry to uniquely identify individual book titles and editions. Some 10-digit ISBNs may end with an "X" instead of a digit.'>ISBN</abbr>''' near the title or product details. Highlight the ISBN, and click "Search MVLC" in your toolbar. Presto, you're looking at the search results for that book / CD at your local library! | |||
== How it works == | |||
The catalog for the [http://www.mvlc.org/Libraries Merrimack Valley Library Consortium] supports lookup by ISBN. If you perform the search, you'll notice that the resulting URL for that search is | |||
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http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/record/888792?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;query=978-1594200069;locg=1 | http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/record/888792?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;query=978-1594200069;locg=1 | ||
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Making this generic, you can change the string '''record/888792''' to '''results''' and put any ISBN after the '''query=''' part and get the lookup results immediately. Taking it a step further, you can create a [[JavaScript]] bookmarklet that can be saved to your browser linkbar which allows you to simply highlight the ISBN on ''any webpage'' and instantly search your local library for the book. This is what the JavaScript code looks like: | Making this generic, you can change the string '''record/888792''' to '''results''' and put any ISBN after the '''query=''' part and get the lookup results immediately. Taking it a step further, you can create a [[JavaScript]] bookmarklet that can be saved to your browser linkbar which allows you to simply highlight the ISBN on ''any webpage'' and instantly search your local library for the book. This is what the JavaScript code looks like: | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang=JavaScript> | ||
javascript: (function () { | javascript: (function () { | ||
// first we get the selection; or do it the Microsoft way | // first we get the selection; or do it the Microsoft way | ||
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// clean up by removing dashes and spaces | // clean up by removing dashes and spaces | ||
t = t.replace(/[\-\s]/,''); | t = t.replace(/[\-\s]/,''); | ||
// hand off to | // hand off to MVLC search | ||
window.location = 'http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;locg=1;pane=numeric;query=' + t; | window.location = 'http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;locg=1;pane=numeric;query=' + t; | ||
} | } | ||
})() | })() | ||
</ | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
{{Messagebox|type=success|text=Note: for the bookmarklet to work, it all has to be on one line. The code above is presented on several lines for readability.}} | {{Messagebox|type=success|text=Note: for the bookmarklet to work, it all has to be on one line. The code above is presented on several lines for readability.}} | ||
== Try it == | == Try it == | ||
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* Free Culture is ISBN 1594200068 | * Free Culture is ISBN 1594200068 | ||
If you want to customize the location of the search, you must change the '''locg''' parameter. <code>locg=1</code> searches across all the | If you want to customize the location of the search, you must change the '''locg''' parameter. <code>locg=1</code> searches across all the MVLC rather than a specific library to cast the widest net - and of course you can always ask for the material to be loaned to your local library. The Merrimack Valley Library Consortium includes the towns of | ||
# Amesbury | # Amesbury | ||