A couple of HIP tools

I have spent the last week or so writing a firefox search plug-in, and wtih the help of Jon Udell, configuring the library lookup bookmarklet to work with HIP 4.1. I know that most of you did these things ages ago, but since this is the first time that we have had a modern PAC, this is all new territory for me, and honestly, I am thrilled that our patrons will soon have these services available. I have also been taking Stephen’s advice and working on “portal customization” and I have put a weather channel thingy on our catalog page. I have also rendered channels for CNN news and Library news, but I haven’t found any way to implement them in a way that would be useful to patrons.

You can see the plugin and bookmarklet here.