{"id":367,"date":"2007-11-21T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/screencast-explaining-libx\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T23:24:08","slug":"screencast-explaining-libx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/screencast-explaining-libx\/","title":{"rendered":"Screencast explaining LibX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a screencast about what LibX does. It is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au\/let\/LibXMurdochUni.swf\" target=\"_blank\">What does LibX do? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A work colleague and I  adapted a version for Murdoch University Library and I made this screencast to show staff what it does. If you want to play with LibX, you can download and install our copy here <a href=\"http:\/\/libx.org\/editions\/download.php?edition=58895B08\" target=\"_blank\">LibX (Murdoch University Library)<\/a>. It is still an experimental version- right now we are testing it for a month or so and trying to break it. If you do play with it, I&#8217;d appreciate feedback. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.uwa.edu.au\/about_the_uwa_library\/contact_the_uwa_library\/contact_the_information_technology_section\/contact_the_web_coordinator\" target=\"_blank\">Matthias<\/a> for some handholding while we made it.<\/p>\n<p><strong> WHAT DOES IT DO ? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LibX is a Firefox extension, which means that it can change the way your browser looks and displays information. It lets you access library resources without being on the any of the library&#8217;s home pages. It was developed at Virginia Tech and anyone can adapt a version for their library using the <a href=\"http:\/\/libx.org:8080\/editionbuilder\/src\/zul\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;do-it yourself&#8221; edition builder<\/a>.  Some of the voodoo magic it does is:<\/p>\n<p>1. Puts a library search box into your browser<\/p>\n<p>2. Hotlinks any ISBN displayed in a browser so that clicking it searches your library catalogue<\/p>\n<p>3. Inserts SFX links into web pages so users can click on articles from places like Wikipedia, or books from Amazon, and see whether a library has a work.<\/p>\n<p>4. Lets you authenticate to access a journal article by right clicking on the page and reloading it &#8211; rather than going through the library pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a screencast about what LibX does. It is here: What does LibX do? A work colleague and I adapted a version for Murdoch University Library and I made this screencast to show staff what it does. If you want to play with LibX, you can download and install our copy here LibX (Murdoch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,332,388,403],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-libx","tag-screencasting","tag-tools","tag-users-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-5V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}