1. EPFL Library Link : a Firefox plug-in to increase collection visibility ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/8526154@N03/1319618839/ ELAG’09 Lightning Talk T. Guignard – EPFL Central Library, Switzerland

2. How it started… Subject librarians make selections according to title availability

3. How it started… Subject librarians make selections according to title availability home library

4. How it started… Subject librarians make selections according to title availability campus librarieshome library

5. How it started… Subject librarians make selections according to title availability campus librariesnetwork librarieshome library

6. Information where it’s needed Exit paper catalogs, subject librarians now use networked tools – Provider databases – RSS feeds, alerts – Amazon recommendations – Blog entries, etc. Query the OPAC for each title is inefficient – Tools like LibX help – Cumbersome for large amount of titles

7. Without the plug-in

10. Vendor example Wit the EPFL Library Link plug-in

11. Vendor example = in home library = on campus = in the union catalog = none of the above = available as e-book Wit the EPFL Library Link plug-in

12. Works on amazon as well

13. (and on other websites) etc.

14. Available in 24h: Loan it ! E-book available: Read it ! Library holdings : Towards a patron-friendly interface

15. Not in the library (yet) : Request it ! Library holdings : Towards a patron-friendly interface

16. When in Rome … Instead of driving users to your OPAC… … put the OPAC where the users are !

17. Under the hood ISBNs? MARC (HTML) Greasemonkey scripts

18. Under the hood ISBNs? MARC (HTML) Compiled into a standalone plug-in auto-update, etc.