Library Lookup Bookmarklets - Frequently Answered Questions

Rebecca Hedreen, Distance Education Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, has started a blog of Frequently Answered Questions for her students, and has a post about the new Library Lookup Bookmarklets that have been tweaked to search Worldcat through Google. The bookmarklet has been mentioned in several places this week, and Rebecca provides a few links in her post. On a related note, I was finally able to get the Library Lookup bookmarklet to work with our SIRSI catalogue, and will be prettying up my instruction page prior to releasing the bookmarklet to our collection development librarians.

I think I'll keep an eye on Rebecca's site - the blog format is a good one for FAQs.

Comments

[Rebecca Hedreen]

Thanks for the mention!
I chose a blog format for the FAQ because the format lends itself to answering very specific questions that have a short "shelf life". One of the other postings I have is a workaround for an error in our journal lookup database. Once we get the typo fixed, it won't be a problem anymore, so it really doesn't belong in a permanent FAQ, but it is certainly a problem now. If it remains a problem for longer than I think I can update or repeat the post, but otherwise it will just fade into the archives...
The ease of posting is also a factor.