I had a great audience at Netspeed 2007 last week for my session Widgets, Gadgets, and Badges! I also had many generous responses to my request earlier in the month for examples of widgets used by libraries. I will be following up later this week by posting those examples on this blog. I am also working on a screencast version of the presentation. Look here for more information later this week.

If you have looked for articles in the library’s online databases, you have probably seen some green and white “Get It!” icons. If you have actually clicked one of those buttons you might be left with some questions about how they (may or may not) work. Those buttons are one part of the library’s “citation linking” service and in this article I will explain what that service is, what the “Get It!” buttons do, and how you can use the citation linker ways you might not have known about.

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