- They have a Firefox extension that does a Z39.50 search of their catalog.
- Catalog entries have a Map button that takes you to a map of the floor where the item should be.
- And, oh yeah, some of the entries include cover images.
At first I figured that it was a wealthy city but the census says the median income for 2000 is $83,332. Just interesting people doing nifty work. Go figure.
See the Shifted Librarian for more stuff like this
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US Census Bureau has a nifty Fact Finder site http://factfinder.census.gov/
When you go there you can get basic facts about cities and towns. Lookfor the index in the blue column on the left. The one for People takes you to a page where you can find stuff about income.
The Census Bureau site itself is pretty amazing. The wealth of data there is staggering. http://www.census.gov/
The catalog search is actually not based on Z39.50 It is simply passing a set of parameters to our Web2 card catalog.
It is very simple to create. I used the instructions at:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/quickstart.html#firstplugin
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