Superpatron - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI

Friends of the library, for the net.

Weblog

Read the Superpatron weblog for details on all these ideas.

About the author

Edward Vielmetti is a patron of the Ann Arbor District Library and a member of its Technology Advisory Board. He organized the first Library Camp and has spoken to audiences of librarians and technologists around the world. He has been a library patron for over 35 years.

Integrating the catalog into the web

The following scripts require Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey. Consider them experimental. They are all for the Ann Arbor District Library. Look at the details first if you don't have Greasemonkey running or want to find out about these tools for other libraries.

• Google Books AADL Linky adds holdings and holds information from the AADL to Google Books. (more details)
• Amazon AADL Linky - adds holdings and holds information from the AADL to the Amazon bookstore (more details)
• The Movie Dude 1.5 + AADL - adds links to the AADL movie collection to IMDB, Amazon, Netflix (more details)

Scripts for the MeLCaT Michigan-wide library catalog

• Amazon MeLCaT Linky - adds holdings from the MeLCaT interlibrary loan catalog to the Amazon bookstore (more details)
• Google Books MeLCaT Linky - adds holdings from the MeLCaT interlibrary loan catalog to the Google Books site (more details)

Scripts for the SWAN catalog

• Amazon SWAN Linky - holdings and holds from the SWAN (Metropolitan Library System, Illinois) to Amazon bookstore.

The following script is for the University of Michigan MIRLYN library catalog

• Amazon Mirlyn Linky - adds holdings from Mirlyn to the Amazon bookstore

Transforming catalog output using XSL

Some XSLT templates for modifying output from the Ann Arbor and Huddersfield libraries. (Experimental and undocumented, contact me for details of use.)

• Huddersfield catalog transform source
• Ann Arbor catalog transform source

For more information, contact Edward Vielmetti, edward.vielmetti@superpatron.com.