RE: [IUG] Something 'fun' for your Friday -- send catalogrecordsviaSMS

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 03:45 PM 05/04/2007, Don wrote:
> Here is a neat stuff I did for our beta: you can social bookmark a bib
> using del.icio.us or other programs.  To see it,
>
> Come here: http://library.wmitchell.edu:2082/
>
> Do a search for anything
>
> Pull up the full record.  You will see the icon.
>
> This one takes only a few minutes to set up.


This is really slick;  thanks for pointing it out.  One little 
problem with the default set up though---the script passes the URL of 
the window as the URL for the bookmark, and since WebOPAC window URLs 
typically are not persistent/durable, most bookmarks won't be any 
good for long.  If you edit the AddThis.com-supplied code slightly 
you can get the record number URL to be passed instead.  I realize 
these URLs have some issues with scoped catalogs, but I think a 
bookmark is better off with this URL than the window URL.

To use the recordnum URL, replace:

        onclick="addthis_url   = location.href;

...with:

        onclick="addthis_url   = document.getElementById('recordnum');


And because the document title is always going to be something 
generic like the name of your library, I'd be inclined to replace:

        addthis_title = document.title;

...with something along the lines of:

        addthis_title = 'REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH BOOK TITLE';

(Although I'm not sure which is worse---multiple bookmarks with the 
title "REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH BOOK TITLE" or multiple bookmarks with 
the title "Lafyette College Libraries".)

Bob Duncan


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Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette dot edu
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