m cameron jones

I get so tired of having to log into the Library website to request books. The worst part of the whole system is having to enter my 14 digit library ID number — TWICE! So, I wrote this bookmarklet which fills in the form fields automatically for me, inputting my ID number and last name. It also preselects “Campus Mail” for delivery and if you are using I-Share, it selects UIUC as your home library.

I made a generator form for it, so you can make your own bookmarklet. The generator runs entirely client-side in Javascript, so I don’t keep your ID number or anything, but you should be warned that the bookmarklet stores your ID number in plain text — meaning if someone got hold of your bookmarks, they’d be able to request books under your account and other devious things.

So, enjoy!

I wrote a bookmarklet which makes it easier to log in to the Library Gateway/Proxy from sites like ACM DL or IEEE Explore or Springer Link. You can also highlight a URL or DOI on these pages and it will generate a UIUC Gateway resolved URL for linking.

UIUC Bookmarklet <– drag this to your bookmarks.

• You can highlight a url like this http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/347642.347715 and then click the bookmark to get a library proxy resolved link
• You can highlight a DOI like this 10.1145/347642.347715 and then click the bookmark to get a library proxy resolved link
• or you can highlight none of the above and just click the bookmarklet to be redirected through the library proxy, back to the same page.