Although I did not attend the “LibX in A Nutshell” presentation by Kyrille Goldbeck and Godmar Back at the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference, I learned about it in the conference’s collected presentations booklet.
LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox that provides direct access to your library’s resources. It is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. Currently, 352 academic and public libraries have created public LibX editions.
Teaching Point
Go to the reference desk computer. Start up Firefox, go to Views, Toolbars, and select NYPL to experience how LibX works with a library we are all familiar with. If you look at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen you’ll see NYPL’s logo, click it and you’ll find options to show and hide the LibX toolbar – very clever!
