LibraryThing Thing - A Firefox Extension for LibraryThing.com

Richard Wallis — Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:45:40 +0100

LibraryThingThing
This Firefox browser extension adds the value of live library holdings lookup using Talis Platform APIs to your, or anyone else's, catalogue page in LibraryThing.com.

LibraryThing is the personal online library catalogue that so far [as of July 5th 2006] contains 3.5 million books catalogued by 51,000 users which has attracted much praise over the last few months. If it is new to you, go take a look - it is impressive.

So what does LibraryThingThing do? Well most of the time not much. It only leaps in to action when it detects that it is on the catalogue page on the LibraryThing site. If it identifies one or more libraries which hold a copy of the book being displayed, or a related edition, it adds a ‘Found in X Libraries’ option to the LibraryThing ‘Find AT…’ navigation panel. Clicking on that link opens a panel displaying a list of the holding libraries; clicking on a library name opens a new window displaying that Library’s OPAC with the book selected.

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To get your hands on this useful extension, click on the link below from within Firefox.

librarythingthing.xpi

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