{"id":8404,"date":"2013-03-26T22:42:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2013-03-26T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T02:42:21","slug":"forward-to-libraries-toronto-public-library-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/forward-to-libraries-toronto-public-library-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward to Libraries: Toronto Public Library added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re starting your research on <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>, you&#8217;ll need to see what books are available on a subject for further study. Previously, you&#8217;d need to trawl the references manually, but <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/\">John Mark Ockerbloom<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/everybodyslibraries.com\/2013\/03\/04\/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries\/\">Forward To Libraries<\/a> (FTL) service makes that a whole lot easier. What FTL does is allow you to reach into nearly any library&#8217;s catalogue search from a subject link on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s been getting some <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/03\/05\/wikipedia-and-libraries-a-mat.html\">great press<\/a> on this service, so I asked him to add\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/\">Toronto Public Library<\/a> to FTL. Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/ftl?library=OCLC-TOH\">FTL: Toronto Public Library<\/a> page. This sets a cookie in your browser so it will remember to direct links to TPL.<\/li>\n<li>Now, let&#8217;s do some browsing &#8230; how about reading more about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nellie_McClung\">Nellie McClung<\/a>, the Canadian feminist, author, social activist and politician:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8405\" alt=\"Neillie McClung: Wikipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17--320x140.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17--320x140.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17--160x70.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17--500x219.png 500w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.54.17-.png 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you scroll down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nellie_McClung#External_links\">External links<\/a> section, there&#8217;s a <strong>Library resources<\/strong> box:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.56.25-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8406\" alt=\"Nellie McClung: Library Resources\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.56.25-.png\" width=\"197\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.56.25-.png 197w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-21.56.25--160x132.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you select the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/ftl?st=viaf&amp;su=71469079\">About Nellie McClung: Resources in your library<\/a> link, you&#8217;ll be taken to the TPL search results for books about her:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8407\" alt=\"TPL: About Nellie McClung\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41--320x264.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41--320x264.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41--160x132.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41--362x300.png 362w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.03.41-.png 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you select the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/ftl?at=viaf&amp;au=71469079\">By Nellie McClung: Resources in your library<\/a> link, you&#8217;ll see all the books written by Nellie in the Toronto Public Library:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8408\" alt=\"TPL: By Nellie McClung\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37--320x272.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37--320x272.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37--160x136.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37--352x300.png 352w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-22.06.37-.png 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty neat, huh? Try other articles, like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Trudeau\">Pierre Trudeau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arduino\">Arduino<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Shield\">Canadian Shield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not actually that hard to add Library resources boxes to Wikipedia articles. There&#8217;s a tutorial in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Template:Library_resources_box#Examples\">Template:Library resources box<\/a> page that shows you how. Researching the locator is the most difficult part, and that gets a lot easier the more you add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re starting your research on Wikipedia, you&#8217;ll need to see what books are available on a subject for further study. Previously, you&#8217;d need to trawl the references manually, but John Mark Ockerbloom&#8216;s Forward To Libraries (FTL) service makes that a whole lot easier. 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