Browser Plugins & Extensions

This enhancement will link results from an Amazon search to the Dowling College Library. In Firefox, drag the link below to your link toolbar. When you search Amazon, click on the toolbar link to see if our library has it.

• Dowling College Library

The Firefox browser has an easy-to-access search box right in the toolbar. This plug-in will allow you to search the Dowling College resources directly from your search box. To install it, make sure that you are using Firefox, and then follow the link below:

Add the Catalog. Once you've installed it, you'll need to select it from the drop-down to do your searching. Just look for the lion icon () and you'll find the "Dowling Library Catalog."

This nifty little plug-in, originally written by Ed Vielmetti, inserts information about our library's holdings into Google Book Search results.

If you haven't heard, Google has been developing its Book Search with several large universities, New York Public Library, and several publishers. As a result, you can search their catalogs and see either a snippet of text that shows your search terms, a selection of pages, or a simple catalog record.

For some books, there is a link to "Find this book in a library." While that's good, we think you want to know right off the bat if Our Library has it. If you do, just follow these steps:

1. Download and install Greasemonkey
2. Download and install this plug-in

Now when you use Google Book Search, you'll see a link under the title of the book that will tell if you we have it or not. If we have it, and it's out, the link will tell you that too!