Matt Mitchell here at UVa just wrote a jquery plugin to access google
book covers and link to google books. I wrote up how to use it here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/?p=107
We’re using it as part of Blacklight, and we’re making it
available through the Blacklight source code repository under an
Apache 2.0 license.
First, grab the plugin here: http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/svn/
javascript/gbsv-jquery.js, and download jquery here: http://
code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/downloads/detail?name=jquery-1.2.3.min.js.
Now make yourself some HTML that looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<script type=“text/javascript”
src=“jquery-1.2.3.min.js”></script>
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“gbsv-jquery.js”></
script>
<script type=“text/javascript”>
$(function(){
$.GBSV.init();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
preview”></span>
<span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
info”></span>
<span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-
thumbnail”></span>
<span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
preview-with-thumbnail”></span>
</body>
</html>
Now load your page and you should see something like this: http://
blacklight.rubyforge.org/gbsv.html
If you link to a non-existent ISBN it will be silently ignored.
Give it a shot and give us some feedback!
Bess
Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Research and Development Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
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(434) 243-2305
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