Originally posted elsewhere. Despite the direction of my original
request, I'm getting such good developer-level responses to this
question that I'm reposting to code4lib to say if you are doing
something interesting, I'm interested.

Karen G. Schneider

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:13:32 -0400, "K.G. Schneider"
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> For a report I'm writing, I'm hunting around for interesting and
> successful uses of end-user-oriented WorldCat affiliate tools and search
> extensions (or interesting and UNsuccessful deployments...), such as:
>
> * WorldCat Search Box. Creates a WorldCat search box on home pages,
> blogs, and other websites; available preconfigured in two sizes, but (I
> think) can be tweaked for other configurations. Requires (free) WorldCat
> registration.
>
> * WorldCat links with embedded search terms. OCLC provides syntaxes for
> deeplinking to WorldCat results, suitable for embedding in courseware,
> etc.
>
> * Other things: a Firefox browser search extension and a Yahoo! toolbar
> for Internet Explorer that allow WorldCat searches from browser
> toolbars, and a Google toolbar for either Internet Explorer or Firefox
> that links directly to WorldCat results when it detects ISBNs on web
> pages.
>
> (Interesting uses of xISBN, WorldCat registry search/detail, or the
> OpenURL Gateway also welcome, but not as central.)
>
> I see some of these tools on various library websites, and use a couple
> of them myself, but I'm looking more carefully for the benefits/payback
> of these tools beyond "yup, it's on our website" or "I use it myself."
>
> Writing under the umbrella of biblio-officialdom I am --
>
> Karen G. Schneider
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