I remember in my youth when I used to go to the public library every Saturday morning to go check out a new book. Sure, the city I live in is small so chances are I probably got the same book more than once. These days, you don’t have to be bothered with the searching and hunting for the book you want. You can do that all from the comfort of your own home. Well, that is if you have a search plugin via Firefox for your local library of choice.

The Web page that makes all the magic happen is Library Search. Here is what they have to say about the project on the front page:

Library Search is a collection of Mozilla Firefox search plugins that search online library catalogs. There are currently search plugins available for 51 libraries, however this number is constantly growing. If you would like to be notified when new search plugins are ready, join our mailing list. To see if a search plugin is ready for your library [and/or] to install a search plugin, click the Downloads link at the top of this page.

I stumbled upon this Web page not too long ago, and I have to say I am very impressed. What does the Web page deliver to you? Well it gives you a long list of libraries to choose from. On the end of each link, you will find a Firefox search plugin to tap into your browser and bring the library home to you.

Here is only a small sample of some of the libraries they have listed: San Francisco Public Library, Santa Clara County Library, Ada Community Library, the Orange Country Library, San Antonio Public Library and many more.

Sure, not every library in the world is listed here. That is where you come in. If you know of one that isn’t on the list, let them know. That way if that library has an Online system that would allow for searching, a Firefox search plugin could be written.

[tags]firefox,extensions,library[/tags]