New Online Books Page features
- From: John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo@[redacted]>
- Subject: New Online Books Page features
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:30:59 EST
I've just introduced information pages for all books listed on The
Online Books Page.
You get to these by selecting a new link that appears at the start
of each listing. On graphical browsers, the link appears as a white "i" in
a blue circle. On text-based browsers, it appears as the text "[Info] ".
(These links are in front of the regular listing links, which still
go directly to the book content as before.)
These links give more complete metadata on books than I could fit earlier
in my more concise listings. They also provide stable links for the
books. (Useful since while some of the sources I link to are pretty
stable, many others are not.) And they provide a number of new
browsing possibilities through live links in the metadata. These
provide links back into the author, title, and call number browsers,
plus the new subject term browser I mentioned earlier this month.
Hence it's hopefully a lot easier to find more books like the one
you're interested in.
More details on the news page
(http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/news.html).
Comments and suggestions welcome. Enjoy!
John