If you’re using Firefox (I’ve tested this using Mac OS X but it surely works with Windows), here’s an interesting experiment…
First, go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ and install the Greasemonkey extension. It makes it easy to DHTML extensions to your browser.
Then, go to this page: deskbox.gmu.edu/amazon2mason.user.js and when the javascript file fills your browser, click on Tools and “Install User Script”
Then go to amazon…you should see a little yellow and green M . If you click that, you’ll run a search on Mason’s catalog for the item (an ISBN search). Also works whenever any other site has a link pointing to Amazon for a title…
Might help collection development people a bit…of course, it has limitations (click on the paperback version and even if we own the hardback, it won’t match…different ISBNs).
Here’s a Quicktime movie (4MB) of how it looks once you’re set up.
Thanks to Ryan Shaw at UC Berkeley for the idea and logic behind this extension.