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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
