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This document discusses the benefits of creating a library toolbar to provide quick access to a library's resources. It explains that a toolbar is a shortcut that contains buttons for commonly used commands. The presentation aims to explain how a library toolbar interacts with a catalogue and helps users access resources easily with one click. It provides tips for creating a toolbar through free hosting websites and customizing it with the library's logo and search functions. The document argues that a toolbar keeps the library constantly visible to users and saves staff and user time by providing direct access points to the OPAC, databases, journals and other materials without visiting the library website.
library toolbar
- 1. Presented By: Surendra Kumar Pal Library & Information Asst. Trainee IISER-Thrivananthapuram
- 2. Introduction What is Library Toolbar. Why Toolbar. Features of Library Toolbar. Method of Creating a Library Toolbar. Advantage/Limitation of Library Toolbar. Best Method of Access a Library. Some Tips About Library Toolbar.
- 3. Objective of this presentation are: 1) To Explain the Concept of Library toolbar. 2) To describe how the toolbar interacts with the library catalogue, its use and how users evaluate it. 3) How to Implement the Ranganathan Fourth and Third Law. 4) How to Helpful to our User. 5) How to Manage Resources Easily. 6) How to Maximum Utilize of our Library & Resources. 7) Easy installation/Unstalation 8) Best Shortcut of Entering a Library Resources without login library web address.
- 4. Library is Key of Knowledge Where You can broke every lock of needs. In Present day, library have a Massive collection specially old library with the reference of Print or Non-Print materials. But the interpretation of Computer in libraries, We can easily access the E- resources. Due to the huge collection of resources, User didn’t get his/her choice of document. For the Saving of his/her time we can create a toolbar for our library. Bringing users to the resources selected by the library in a simple way is a challenge, especially for current libraries where resources are more and more located in the clouds. Users spending most of their time on the Web, far from the Intranet or the OPAC, librarians may provide them with a Conduit Toolbar :-a free toolbar that you can customize to your needs and let install on major Web browsers. The main advantage of the toolbar is that it is always visible when surfing the Web.
- 5. What is a toolbar? Simplelly a toolbar is a nothing but it’s a shortcut of location where document are: A toolbar is part of a window, often a bar across the top, that contains buttons that execute commands when you click them. Many applications contain toolbars that you can customize so the commands you use frequently are readily available and easily identifiable. Many dialog boxes also contain toolbars. For many applications, you can specify which toolbars are visible and what icons or text appear on the buttons; consult the application's help screens or documentation for details.
- 6. Fewer people visit library website to begin their search. Constant presence in User’s interest. All patron are familiar with the format of browser toolbars.
- 7. Books and other materials can be searched by author, title, keyword, etc. in any one or all of the IISERTVM Libraries. Searching can be done with as little as a single click with no need to traverse the IISER-LIBRARY web site. The search box, with dropdown menus for type of search and scope of the search are right on every browser window as part of the IISER Free Library toolbar. The toolbar is available as an extension to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and adds new functionality to these browsers. After a user installs the toolbar, its buttons and search fields provide quick access to resources including: Search engines such as our library catalog and Google Scholar A journal finder linking to iiser’s journal portal Links to our library’s homepage, OPAC, databases, theses portal and “My account” interface
- 8. In the present day, It is very easy to create a toolbar for our library. Many of Website have provide the chance to create it as free of cost. Just login with in and in some step we create a toolbar application setup. Ex. http://scholar.google.com, Conduct.com etc.
- 9. 1. Login with the host website. 2. Click on create toolbar 3. Upload your logo 4. Add your search for the Catalogue. 5. Given the link to our library web address. Some of following slide for showing the next steps:
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- 13. It’s gives to chance of maximum resources in a few minutes of our customer. User may be much satisfied to our services. Search box for Catalogue of our library. Toolbar also help to attract the user for using the library resources. Here we can publish Blogs, link to other website, News, Massage, Social Networking site. Automatically Updated.
- 14. With the help of toolbar we can save the time of User/Staff. Easily User can enter the library without searching the URL of our Library. User can access our library OPAC, e-book, Database, Journals, archive, and Services.
- 15. Your browser may alert you to an attempt to install software when downloading , you'll need to set it to allow installations from this site (you set this on a site-by-site basis) You can always hide your toolbar(s) by right clicking in the area to the right of the toolbar, if you want to install multiple toolbars just choose which to show or hide at any time You can make changes to the toolbar components by choosing "Toolbar Options" in the dropdown menu to the right of our library logo Toolbar content is updated automatically for you - no need to keep reinstalling We promote it on our website, Meeting of user at seminar hall& by word- of-mouth, also by e-mail we’ve invited all our users to download the toolbar .
- 16. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Library-Thiruvananthapuram Thank You!