Library Lookup Project

If you have ever been browsing the website of bookseller and want to look up a specific book in your library's catalog, this tool makes it super easy! The LibraryLookup Project is a place where you can create a bookmarklet that with one click will lookup a title in your library catalog based on ISBN number. This bookmarklet is really easy to create and put into your Links toolbar, especially if you use the Firefox browser. If you are using Internet Explorer and have Windows XP on your machine, it is a little more complicated but there is a tutorial on the LibraryLookup page to help you. Just a note, the library I use, King County Library System, is not listed under the Innovative link. Instead, click on the LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Generator and enter http://catalog.kcls.org/ for the Base URL (or your the URL for your library's catalog) and for Library Name instead of putting the name of the library, enter LibLookup (or another short name like KCLSlookup) so that this is what shows in your Links toolbar and you know that when you click there it will search your library's catalog based on the ISBN. This tool doesn't work in all cases, I noticed that it seems to work based off the first ISBN listed. In Amazon the 10 digit ISBN is listed first and so most of my searches work, but Powells lists the 13 digit ISBN first which is not always so successful. Have fun!