LibX Toolbar Setup

Contact Kevin Reiss at kreiss[at]gc.cuny.edu for more information on using LibX at a CUNY library

Key Pieces of Information

• LibX is a free open-source tool
• LibX is web-based
• LibX Homepage Search for "Graduate Center" under public editions to find our toolbar
• LibX Edition Builder - Create an account for yourself and build your toolbar here
• Graduate Center Toolbar Home - LibX will also create a stock homepage for your toolbar, see http://libx.org/editions/download.php?edition=69E01436

Configuration Settings - You will Need All of the Following

• Your Campus Proxy Server prefix. This the URL you use to direct off-campus users to your proxy server. Examples: http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url= or http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url= or CUNY Central http://central.ezproxy.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=
• CUNY SFX Server http://sfx.cuny.edu:9003/sfx_local - OpenURL Resolver for CUNY. You might want to proxy this in the settings to provide seamless off-campus service - . http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=http://sfx.cuny.edu:9003/sfx_local
• CUNY SFX Icon URL -
• Your Serials Solutions Homepage - http://gm5yv9ts3z.search.serialssolutions.com/ for the GC or http://zm3uh2fr3l.search.serialssolutions.com/ for Baruch. You might also want to proxy this resource.
• Your Campus Code in CUNY+ - i.e. gradcenter, baruch or u-cun01 for the union catalog.
• Create a favorite icon and select a logo for your toolbar to brand it. Use http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ to generate a favicon for free: examples - favicon | campus logo

Some Things You Might Want to Do

• Set up your library in Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html - talk to Roland S. at OLS if you want to do this.
• Decide if you want to turn on autolinking and context sensitivity in the toolbar
• Make your toolbar public on the LibX website

Key Observations

• LibX is cross-platform and cross-browser
• Updates to toolbar can be automatically pushed out through the built-in browser add-on update mechanism.
• Right now only IE7 or Firefox are officially supported by LibX. Some features that work in firefox, don't work in IE7. However, the LibX maintainers are actively working to correct this. The toolbar will install in IE6 but all the bells and whistles don't work, only basic searching does.