Weekly Recap:
Brandy and I went to the downtown Tulsa Public Libary. Brandy came prepared with a list of 9 books to checkout, I went with one book in mind. We spent about an hour there and were even able to checkout using a very cool automated scanning/checkout machine (think Albertson’s self-checkout, except for books :-) .)
Knowing how much Brandy likes surfing Amazon and realizing that the Tulsa Library is pretty nice, that night I wrote on my todo list “makea program so when Brandy is surfing Amazon for books, she can automatically see if the books are available at the library.” The next morning I wokeup and checked out the Weblogs.us frontpage, seeinga new post by the Fiddling Librarian I had to click it. Turns out there is a nice GreaseMonkey (FireFox addon) script that does just what I wanted! All that was left was to adapt it for the Tulsa library system… BUT, Kevin Smith read the comment I left on his blog and amazingly adapted the script before I could even get to it. The result is very awesometastic and works very well. Thanks Kevin!
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Great to see the recognition for a great library. I have been blessed with TCCL and the Pioneer Library systems. I'm now in the OKC metro area and do really enjoy facets of the system. However, I'd love to know who I need to talk to help create a similar setup for their system.
Oklahoma does have some wonderful public library systems. I'm working on altering this for SWOSU's Endeavor system -- if I'm able to work that out I'll try Metro next (since it's my local public library). Or if you beat me to it share the link -- In fact if we all work together perhaps we can do one of these for the major Oklahoma library systems and I'll be happy to host the scripts on my webspace.
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