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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (434) 243-2305
