jquery plugin to grab book covers from Google and link to Google books

From: Bess Sadler <eos8d_at_nyob> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:30:40 -0400 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Matt Mitchell here at UVa just wrote a jquery plugin to access google
book covers and link to google books. I wrote up how to use it here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/?p=107

We’re using it as part of Blacklight, and we’re making it
available through the Blacklight source code repository under an
Apache 2.0 license.

First, grab the plugin here: http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/svn/
javascript/gbsv-jquery.js, and download jquery here: http://
code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/downloads/detail?name=jquery-1.2.3.min.js.

Now make yourself some HTML that looks like this:
<html>
   <head>
     <script type=“text/javascript”
src=“jquery-1.2.3.min.js”></script>
     <script type=“text/javascript” src=“gbsv-jquery.js”></
script>
     <script type=“text/javascript”>
         $(function(){
                 $.GBSV.init();
         });
     </script>
   </head>
   <body>
         <span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
preview”></span>
         <span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
info”></span>
         <span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-
thumbnail”></span>
         <span title=“ISBN:0743226720″ class=“gbsv-link-to-
preview-with-thumbnail”></span>
   </body>
   </html>

Now load your page and you should see something like this: http://
blacklight.rubyforge.org/gbsv.html

If you link to a non-existent ISBN it will be silently ignored.

Give it a shot and give us some feedback!

Bess

Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Research and Development Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904

bess_at_virginia.edu
(434) 243-2305