Hi, John. This is pretty nifty! Thanks for creating it.
I wonder: would it make sense to connect it to some of the open resolvers out there? (or are those only useful at the item level, whereas this produces searches?) A. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:17 PM, John Mark Ockerbloom < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikipedia and libraries folks, > > I work at the University of Pennsylvania library, and > have been working with free online resources like online books > and Wikipedia for some years now. For instance, I've been > maintaining the Online Books Page since 1993, and have > recently added links from author and subject browsing pages > on that site to corresponding Wikipedia articles. > > I've recently developed some templates, and a redirection > service, intended to support links from Wikipedia articles > to readers' local libraries, wherever those libraries > might be. If you think these might be useful, I'd be > interested in hearing your thoughts, and would also be happy > to help get people started with them as appropriate. > > The service, which I'm calling "Forward to Libraries" or "FTL", > is invoked by templates that can be placed in any Wikipedia > article. The template documentation can be found here: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Template:Library_resources_box<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box> > > (See in particular, the "Library resources About George Washington..." > example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Template:Library_resources_** > box#Examples<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box#Examples> > The box shown there has working links.) > > As you can see from the example, the "Resources in your library" > links can take a reader to a relevant search in the online catalog or > discovery system of the user's preferred library. (If that preference > isn't known, the user will be asked first which library they want to > search. But users can register a preferred library for future searches.) > > Readers can also choose "Resources in other libraries" to check other > libraries and library services. (For instance, a reader who usually > uses a university library might also want to check nearby public > libraries. Or they might want to do a WorldCat search of lots of > libraries.) The service currently knows how to connect to over 70 > libraries in the US-- and users can request others to be added-- plus > Worldcat.org and The Online Books Page. (Direct links to the Online > Books Page are also an option, if there are relevant free online books > people can read without leaving their seat or logging into alibrary > proxy.) Libraries outside the US can be added as well, though the > service currently works best with libraries that use the Library > of Congress name and subject headings, or similar ones. > > For more details and rationale, see my blog post at > > > http://everybodyslibraries.**com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-** > to-our-libraries/<http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/> > > I'm still fairly new at Wikipedia template-building (and have only > recently created an account at Wikipedia instead of just editing > anonymously). Suggestions and other feedback would be most welcome, > and I'd be glad also to answer any questions folks on this list > might have. > > Thanks, > > John Mark Ockerbloom > > ______________________________**_________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/libraries<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries> > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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