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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;var reTry it =/97(?:8|9)([ -])\d{1,5}\1\d{1,7}\1\d{1,6}\1\d$/;var OK=re.exec(t);if(!OK){alert(t+" isn't a valid ISBN\n Please just select a 10 or 13 digit ISBN\ndashes and spaces are OK")}else{window.location="http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;locg=1;pane=numeric;query="+t}})();">Search MLVC</a></html>
== Try it ==Select ONLY the numeric portion of an ISBN (dashes and spaces are OK). Do not include the letters "ISBN" The samples listed below also link to the internal ISBN handler of this website.
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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
var t = window.getSelection ? window.getSelection().toString() : document.selection.createRange().text;
// create a Regular Expression to test the validity of our input
var re = /97(?:8|9)([ \s\-xX0-9])\d{1,5}\1\d{110,717}\1\d{1,6}\1\d$/;
var OK = re.exec(t);
if (!OK) {
// Notify the user if their selection doesn't look right
alert(t + " isn't is not a valid ISBN\n Please just select a 10 or 13 digit ISBN\ndashes and spaces are OK"');
} else {
// clean up by removing dashes and spaces t = t.replace(/[\-\s]/,''); // hand off to MLVC MVLC search
window.location = 'http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/results?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;locg=1;pane=numeric;query=' + t;
}
{{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.}}
* Little Rabbit Foo Foo is ISBN 0671709682
* 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 MLVC 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# Andover# Billerica# Boxford# Burlington# Carlisle# Chelmsford# Dracut# Dunstable# Essex# Georgetown# Groton# Groveland# Hamilton-Wenham# Haverhill# Ipswich# Lawrence# Littleton# Lowell# Manchester# Merrimac# Methuen# Middleton# Newbury# Newburyport# North# North# Rockport# Rowley# Salisbury# Tewksbury# Topsfield# Tyngsborough# West# Westford# Wilmington
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