Script Summary: Check book availability in the Ohio State University Library from Amazon.com and Powells.com
On amazon.com and powells.com (and maybe some other sites), this script inserts links versions of a book that are available in the Ohio State University Library.
It is a heavily hacked up version of XISBN LibraryLookup (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3393) which is, in turn, an adaptation of a script by John Udell. It replaces my earlier "Ohio State Library in Amazon" (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2549) which was a hacked up version of of an earlier script by John Udell.
It aims to combine the advantages of each.
The main improvements of this script over "Ohio State Library in Amazon" are all inherited from XISBN LibraryLookup:
(a) searching for versions of the book with other ISBNs, using OCLC's xISBN api
(b) providing results from sites other than amazon.com (for the moment, I've only verified that Amazon and Powells are working.)
Aside from localization to OSU, the main improvements on or differences between this script and "XISBN Library Lookup" are:
(a) The script inserts the current status of the book into the webpage (available, due, on order, etc.) rather than simply reporting that the library has a copy. If the book is checked out, it inserts the due date.
(b) The script finds up to 5 available versions of the book and their status.
(c) Further information associated with the particular version found (title, year, edition, language) is provided for each found copy via the "title" attribute--displayed by Firefox as a tooltip.
The script should be relatively easy to adapt to other library websites, but I haven't tried. Also, the ability to look the book up in multiple libraries (found in the original XISBN LibraryLookup) should remain intact, but I haven't tried.
