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I can read you like an OpenBook
I’ve just installed the OpenBook plugin for WordPress, which allows you to display bibliographic data from the Open Library, including book cover thumbnail images, in a WordPress blog post or page.
By default, the plugin provides both a link to the Open Library record (via the hyperlinked title of the book), plus a link to WorldCat to search for local holdings. If you follow the link to ‘Find in a library‘, and enter the Uni’s (Brayford) postcode LN6 7TS in the ‘Enter Location Information:‘ field in WorldCat, it will show you links to the holdings of Nottingham, Leeds, the BL, etc.
To add a book to your blog post using the plugin, all you have to do is type the text:
For example:
BBSLG Conference 2008
At the beginning of July I attended the BBSLG (British Business Schools’ Librarians Group) annual conference, hosted by Leeds Met and Leeds University and held at the Metropole hotel in Leeds. The subject this year was space, including library space, learning spaces and even “head space” (stress). There were talks by Philippa Levy (Sheffield Information Commons), Richard Partridge (De Montfort University) and Peter Robson (Leeds University). As I’m part of the organising committee for the conference, I arranged the sponsors’ exhibition and presentations.
Please click on http://www.bbslg.org/pdf/2008conf.pdf to find a review of the conference.
For the conference we were asked to provide a summary of the last year’s activities at our respective universities in less than 200 words. Replies were received from 48 institutions, including the University of Lincoln, and the document can be accessed at http://www.bbslg.org/dox/633518825020781250.pdf
Alison Sharman
p.s. If anyone is interested, the speaker on stress, Michael Comyn, gave us all a free cd which comprises exercises to combat stress! Apparently the secret is to breathe!
