The Yale Law Library Guide to Using LibX

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Link to MORRIS from external sources such as Amazon.com.

LibX is a Firefox extension for Libraries that provides direct access to a set of library resources.

When you search another resource, such as Amazon.com or the New York Times Book Review, LibX helps you connect to the information you seek. By seeking out patterns of embedded metadata, LibX is able to identify and extract information that may be used to search MORRIS.

Researchers may wish to use this feature of LibX to see if the information materials that they seek are available.

Below is an example of a title search in Amazon. Note the use of the Yale Law School shield to identify searchable material. There is also an example of the search results in MORRIS (which you would see after clicking on the Yale Law School shield. In this particular case, LibX launched an ISBN search of MORRIS. Notice that the search results opened up a navigation menu from OCLC listing additional ISBNs. This is OCLC's xISBN service.

The OCLC xISBN service enables a 'FRBR-ized' search of the catalog. If you were to click on each ISBN in the list (see the orange area in the second image), it would launch another search of MORRIS. If you go down the list of ISBNs, you would have completed a comprehensive search of our WebOPAC for each manifestation of the book (hardback, paperback, alternative editions, etc.).

Search Results in MORRIS and the xISBN service from OCLC (on the left).