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September 24, 2004
Bookmarklet needs a place to live, and better explanation...
Jon Udell wrote up a post on the Amazon/Google/WorldCat bookmarklet evolution, as well as some nifty points on xISBN feature available through WorldCat, which resolves the problem of a single item having multiple ISBNs due to various formats. Thanx for the screentime! I also received email from Lorcan Dempsey at OCLC about the xISBN stuff, which I need to go over a bit more carefully.
Gary Price over at ResourceShelf had some choice and warranted things to say about the whole OpenWorldCat concept in relation to the bookmarklet. I also want to read that post more carefully and respond more fully in good time, but I must say that, after a quick read, I agree with many of his points. Part of my plan is to build a page for the bookmarklet to explain what it is, how it can be used by librarians and by patrons, pros and cons, so that users of the bookmarklet are fully aware of issues like those brought up by Gary.
Since bookmarklets for a Amazon/Yahoo!/WorldCat lookup may be in the works, and bookmarklets seem to be an emerging web technology for librarians to play with and mold to our very needs, I'm thinking I might start a little portal page of useful bookmarklets for librarians. If you're a librarian, and you're using a bookmarklet in your everyday work that helps, let me know...
September 24, 2004 12:43 AM