Improvements to the Australian Library Blog Search
In a recent post Peta outlined some of the new things that had been happening here on LINT. Recently I improved the Australian Library Blogs search and enabled it as an OpenSearch plugin.
What does this mean?
It means that you can search the list of Australian Library Blogs without visiting the website first. Those of us that have been using the Firefox internet browser will be familiar with the search bar in the top right hand corner of the browser window. Now when you visit LINT you’ll see that the icon for the search bar gets a green tinge to it, similar to the image below.
The Firefox 2.0 Search Bar
If you’re using Internet Explorer 7, it also has a search bar. It is also located in the top right hand corner of the browser window. Now when you visit LINT you’ll see that the drop down arrow gets an orange tinge to it, similar to the image below.
The Internet Explorer 7 Search Bar
When you click on either of these icons a list of installed search engines pup-up. At the end of the list will be two new entries “Australian Library Blog Search” and “Search LINT”. Clicking on one of these entries will install the plugin into your browser. You can then search our list of Australian Library Blogs without having to visit LINT first. Although we still encourage you to visit and participate! The “Search LINT” entry allows you to restrict your search to just the LINT website.
Clicking on the icon again will bring up the list of available plugins and you can change it to one of the others to do a search.
Please let us know what you think of this addition to LINT. We appreciate your feedback. You can leave a comment, or you can email us at librarian<@>librariesinteract.info.
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