Pimp My Toolbar...

Conduit offers a simple interface for creating a customized browser toolbar that is helpful and good for branding. I may have mentioned this previously, but I finally got around to using it. You can download the Bailey Library toolbar here and avail yourself of a Google search (my only criticism, you are locked into Google and nothing else but Google -- surely they are not that insecure, how much of the world do you need to dominate?) a quick link to our catalog, WorldCat, amazon, etc., journal searches, interlibrary loan -- in fact, almost the entire library home page in a single toolbar. I am liking it for those times I am reading something and think, "I wonder if our library has that?"

I could also see how I might want to customize a personal toolbar for home use. Fun, free, and another one of those things that makes you look skillful but requires little effort -- my favorites! I forgot to mention it has a sort of forum component -- we can push messages out to everyone who downloads the toolbar and they can reply. Very cool.