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MLibrary Labs is the University of Michigan Library's showcase for experimental tools. We want you to try them out and -- most important -- let us know what you think by sending an email to mlibrary-labs@umich.edu. An RSS feed for this page is also available. For information about public access computers, please see the computing help page.
MLibrary Labs is the University of Michigan Library's showcase for experimental tools. We want you to try them out and -- most important -- let us know what you think by sending an email to mlibrary-labs@umich.edu. An RSS feed for this page is also available. For information about public access computers, please see the computing help page.

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Proxy Bookmarklet 

The Proxy Bookmarklet lets you reload a web page through the U-M Library's proxy server. If the page you are visiting is one that the library has a subscription for, and you're presently off-campus, then you should get you immediate access to the resource once you've logged in with your uniqname and Kerberos password and have been verified to have a valid library account.

Desktop and Laptop Users:  Get the MLibrary Proxy bookmarklet. 

iPhone/iPad Users:  Get the MLibrary Proxy Bookmarklet for iPhone and iPad.

LibX Toolbar

Have you ever found the perfect book at Amazon and wanted to see if it was available through Mirlyn? Found an article citation on a web page and wanted to get a full-text copy? The LibX Toolbar is for Firefox only and will not work in Internet Explorer, Safari, or any other browser.

Learn more or go get LibX.

iGoogle Gadget

Add the MLibrary Search Gadget to your iGoogle page. IGoogle is Google's portal -- it allows you to select various "gadgets" (a module that shows news, weather, email, etc.) and display them on a single page. MLibrary now has a gadget for searching Mirlyn, Search Tools, the library web site, with an Ask a Librarian link included.

Get the MLibrary iGoogle gadget.

ArticlesPlus Bookmarklet

Ever visited a web page and wanted to find more information, from the academic or popular press, on the same subject? This bookmarklet will automatically search ArticlesPlus for the title of the page you are visiting. (You can edit the query if you like, to remove or add other keywords.) See the ArticlesPlus Quick Search Bookmarklet for more details and to install it in your browser.

PictureIt Code Available

PictureIt Rare Book Reader allows you to “turn the pages” of digitized rare materials on the web. The library is making this application available as a configurable self-contained tool and as a Flex project with full source code. See the PictureIt Rare Book Reader Code page for details.

Search Plug-Ins for Firefox & Internet Explorer

Search plug-ins allow you to add collections to the search box in the upper right of many web browsers. These plug-ins allow you to search Mirlyn, OAIster, or Deep Blue directly from your browser.

Learn about and install these search plug-ins.

Facebook Applications

The Facebook Mirlyn Search lets you post Mirlyn items to your Facebook profile, add items to your Mirlyn "My Shelf" space, and share them with friends within Facebook. If you already added this application to your Facebook account, you already have the new version.

The Facebook MLibrary Hours application lets you add the hours for your favorite UM library to your profile so you can always see when your "home" library opens and closes.

WorldCat Search

Want to search across the world's libraries all at once for a particular item? Try the OCLC WorldCat search. It will search across thousands of libraries' catalogs, showing you those libraries that have the item you're looking for -- sorted by proximity to wherever you are.

Give WorldCat a try.