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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 titleor product details. The catalog for the 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
Want this bookmarklet? Drag this link to your browser bookmark bar: <html><a href="javascript: (function(){var t=window.getSelection?window.getSelection().toString():document.selection.createRange().text;window.location='http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;query='+t;})()">Search MLVC</a></html>
== Try it ==
* Little Rabbit Foo Foo is ISBN 0671709682
* Free Culture is ISBN 1594200068
Unfortunately, it doesn't pass testing because there doesn't seem to be a URL pattern to request the search to be accross all the MLVC rather than a specific library.
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