Monday, June 17, 2013

IU East Campus Library LibX Toolbar Updates for 2013!

The organization responsible for the development of the library toolbar is LibX.org and provides open-access software and development support for librarians and libraries everywhere!

The toolbar is developed by individual libraries and offers a variety of options for searching. The IU East Campus Library Toolbar includes access links to several important resources and web pages, it allows searching of several library resources from the browser's toolbar and provides options for the search field to be processed.  The Campus Library Toolbar searches Find-It, IUCAT, WorldCat.org, Google Scholar and Credo Reference. IUCAT has been updated, library links updated and other IU East links are included: Oncourse, OneStart, & KB.

The developers of this wonderful product provide an instant-access path for library users to some of the most used resources in libraries.  The toolbar finds library resources from typed search terms without individuals needing to remember resource or page addresses/URLS.  The toolbar also looks at several web-based book sellers and places the Find-It image,
on the book page.  In this way IUCAT can be searched for that specific book using the ISBN (International Standard Book Number); the tool uses only the Campus Library, Indiana University East's records to accomplish this search. Once installed the image will show on various websites including Google Scholar.

This product provides proxied access to the Campus Library resources from off-campus for all Indiana University East members with an IU username and passphrase.   Please, visit us to try out this useful and fun toolbar!  Once installed the Mozilla/Firefox product will download updates for you, so you may use the most recent version with ease!

The permanent URL of 'Indiana University East-Campus Library Edition' Edition for the Mozilla Firefox extension is:

The permanent URL of 'Indiana University East-Campus Library Edition' Edition for the Google Chrome extension is:
 

If you have questions regarding the Campus Library Toolbar for IU East, contact Sue at smcfadde@indiana.edu.

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