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BOOK DISPLAY WIDGETS
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Dawn Kovacs, Wheaton Public Library
Wheaton Public Library
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City library in Wheaton, Illinois
Population served: 53,648
Circulation: 1,193,101
Collections: 320,000 books; 50,000 AV items
Innovative Millennium & WebOPAC
Use Book Display Widgets on our website
Library Thing for Libraries
https://www.librarything.com/forlibraries
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Library Thing is an online service for cataloging
personal book collections and sharing reviews
LTFL has resources for libraries: Similar Books, Book
Psychic, Stack Map, Book Display Widgets
Library Anywhere mobile catalog
Affordable
Carousel Bookshelves @ WPL
Fiction Books
http://www.wheatonlibrary.org/browse/books
DVDs
http://www.wheatonlibrary.org/browse/movies-tv
Clicking on a title in the carousel opens the catalog record in a new window.
Widgets @ WPL
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Setup is easier for books
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require a custom URL for jacket/content
 Can include pop-up window with jacket, summary and
link to catalog; that info is not available for movies
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The majority of WPL’s widgets are for DVDs
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use a custom URL to Content Café for jacket
 We eliminate the pop-up window for all widgets to
make them consistent
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The WPL example is for a DVD widget
4 Types of Book Display Widgets
Dynamic Grid
Carousel
3-DCarousel
Scrolling
Widget Setup/Update
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To Setup Widgets
 List
of ISBNs or UPCs
 URL for jackets from another source (Content Café)
 URL for searching ISBN/UPC in your catalog
 Ability to add javascript to your web page
 Test look of display
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To Update Widgets
 New
ISBNs or UPCs
 Enter manually or copy a list
Example of a DVD widget on WPL’s Library Thing for Libraries website
ISBNs or UPCs
Monthly, Weekly,
Daily, Hourly
Dynamic Grid
Carousel
Scrolling
3-D Carousel
Use for AV jackets; book jackets
are part of Library Thing
Describes popup window. We link
directly to catalog instead since no
detail is available for AV items
Random, Title, Author, Date
Lots of testing necessary to
get the widget just right
Customization:
Custom HTML to output / Set height and width in pixels / Custom CSS
Camera icon allows you to
capture a picture of the widget
Catalog
search
Scrolling widgets: number of items to scroll,
time between scrolls
10-100, make it match total
number of ISBNs or UPCs
Any change you make to the widget displays here before it’s live.
It becomes live after it is saved.
Save settings to make it live. No need to touch
the website – just refresh the web page that has
the widget to see the changes.
Copy this code to the web
page to display the widget
Javascript needed to display
the widget. Our web
designer added this to all
pages so we can add
widgets anywhere.
Picture of widget for
social media posts
Screenshot of widgets
Screenshot of code on our
website for those widgets
Updating Widgets
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Manually enter ISBNs or UPCs separated by
commas into the box on the LTFL website.
Copy list from Excel into the box
 Export
a list of ISBNs or UPCs into Excel (column A)
 Add a comma in each row of column B
 Copy columns A and B then paste them into the box
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will be in a column list not across, but that’s OK
Book Display Widgets @ WPL
http://wheatonlibrary.org
 Browse – Books
 Browse – Movies & TV
 Nonfiction
Films
 Foreign Language Films
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Browse – Music
Children – Books
Teens – Reading Lists
Dawn Kovacs
[email protected]