Amazon/HCL Lookup
Do you use Amazon.com® to locate books? Wish you could easily find out if the Library owns a book you have located?
Now you can! Our Amazon/HCL Lookup tool displays brief information about the Library status of books you find in Amazon, right on the Amazon results page. While displaying the full page description of a particular title, up-to-date infomation about the status of the the title in the Hennepin County Library collection appears just below the title. The Lookup tool requires the Firefox web browser.
Here’s what it looks like on the Amazon results page:
The Amazon/HCL Lookup tool was created by Hennepin County Library and is not affiliated in any way with Amazon.com®. Questions should be directed to techhelp@hclib.org.
Attention Barnes & Nobles shoppers! A similar tool is available for barnesandnobles.com.
How to install the Amazon/HCL Lookup tool on your computer:
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Enjoy! The Amazon/HCL Lookup tool was adapted from the Amazon SPL Linky created by Carrick Mundell.
Version 1.1 (updated 6/26/2006) - now links to a title search of the Catalog if there is no exact match with the edition located in Amazon.
On Jun 23, 2006 at 10:02 AM, Jan Fransen wrote:
Love this tool. Your instructions could be a bit more detailed, though. Each of your three steps requires more than just clicking the link. For example, the GreaseMonkey install requires you to allow the HCLib.org site to install software on your computer. You'll see a bar at the top of the FireFox window prompting you to do that. The lookup tool itself (step 3) is installed by right-clicking the link and choosing Install User Script from the menu. I also needed to restart FireFox before the tool would work.
On Jun 26, 2006 at 3:17 PM, Glenn P. wrote:
Thanks for the helpful hints, Jan. The post has been updated with installation instructions for Greasemonkey. To install the script, you can also left-click on the link above and you will be prompted by Firefox to install the script.
On Jun 26, 2006 at 6:23 PM, Aaron wrote:
Thanks! I'd heard about the original script and couldn't be happier someone adapted it for Hennepin County.
On Jun 27, 2006 at 7:14 PM, Bob C. wrote:
So that means abandoning MS Windows? I tremble at the thought!
On Jun 29, 2006 at 2:30 PM, Eric wrote:
I was just coming to the library site to look up a book from Amazon when I saw this tool. Thanks! It's really great.
On Jul 5, 2006 at 12:22 PM, Kristi wrote:
This is great. Looking things up on Amazon and then finding them at the library is one of my favorite things to do on the web!
On Jul 7, 2006 at 10:18 PM, Joy C Paul wrote:
This is a great feature, though I had some initial diffculties, finally I could. Only suggestion I have - when you say title not availble but other editions may be - the target page in hclib do a search by 'Title Start with', will it be better with 'Title contains' search. Many books start with unrelevant keywords such as 'Introduction to', 'Guide to' etc. Thank you
On Jul 8, 2006 at 10:16 AM, Philip wrote:
Bob, it doesn't mean abandoning Windows, only Internet Explorer (the web browser). Firefox is a free browser, easy to use and navigate, and highly adaptable: this script is just one example. I've been very pleased with it, and it works seamlessly with windows.
On Mar 16, 2007 at 8:53 AM, Alan wrote:
Hey Jon, any chance of updating this so it works with the new pages? I love the script. It looks like the origTitle XPath statement isn't working right with the new amazone page. Thanks!
On Mar 16, 2007 at 1:12 PM, Glenn P. wrote:
I tested today with the latest version of Greasemonkey installed and it appears to working fine.
On Mar 19, 2007 at 10:55 AM, Alisasol,Alisasol wrote:
Great information thanks.
On Mar 30, 2007 at 9:30 PM, SStokes wrote:
Thanks for such a useful tool.
