Comments on: Improvements to the Australian Library Blog Search

By: librariesinteract.info

librariesinteract.info — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:07:35 +0000

[...] If you are using Firefox2 or IE7, you can click on the “Search Australian blogs” option that appears in your toolbar search box to install an option to search Australian Library blogs from wherever you are on the net. [...]

By: Peta Hopkins

Peta Hopkins — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:44:30 +0000

I understand that the NLA will be launching their downloadable search box in the near future. So Bloggers and Libraries will be able to easily add it to their websites.

I like the idea of the take-it-with-you search options like openSearch and the Google widget. You don’t have to visit a site first to be able to search its content – you can do it from anywhere, or from where it is convenient for the user.

By: matthias

matthias — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:23:53 +0000

If you haven’t played with Google Personalised Home, and how it’s useful, go to http://www.google.com/ig and have a play.

Try adding the gadget (a Libraries Australia search gadget that I hacked together in the 30 minutes since I posted the last comment):

http://www.deiectus.com/gph/libsaust.xml

Disclaimer: I would like to point out that the NLA has no authorised or endorsed this gadget in any way, shape or form. I may even have broken copyright laws in creating in. If a legal representative of the NLA asks me to remove the gadget, I will do so immediately.

That being said, it was pretty easy to put together. I wrote a couple of gadgets for my library over the past week (they’re not ready to see the light of day, yet).

By: matthias

matthias — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:56:37 +0000

I’ve been playing with OpenSearch plugins, too. They’re deceptively easy to write.

I’m currently investigating the various ways in which easily extensible services, like Google Personalised Home, can benefit libraries. I’m also hacking together some quick’n'dirty modules that take advantage of them (easier access to ezproxy resources, anyone?). Who else has done stuff like this?

By: Troubles creating an OpenSearch plugin « Tech Explorer

Troubles creating an OpenSearch plugin « Tech Explorer — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:46:01 +0000

[...] Recently I created two OpenSearch plugins for the librariesinteract.info blog that I’m fortunate to be able to contribute to. You can read more about them in this post that I put up this morning. The biggest problem I had with them was a compatibility issue between the Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers. [...]