When I built BookJetty, I knew that I am not going to stop at just one library, our good home library, Singapore National Library Board. I dreamt for BookJetty to integrate with a lot more libraries worldwide, and to benefit more book lovers around the world.

Three weeks ago, I started the quest to fulfill that dream, and I digged through documents, websites, guidelines related to Z3950 protocol and MARC standards, visiting hundreds of online library catalogues worldwide, and rewriting BookJetty library module to create a facade that can easly link up with more libraries.

And today, I am glad to announce that BookJetty finally goes
international, integrating with 300 libraries from 10 countries, covering United States, United Kingdom, Canda, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ireland, South Africa, and probably more in the future.

For a start, when you sign up for a BookJetty account, your library preference will be empty. When you try to list books with library search, you will be redirected to your library preferences page.

Select on one or more libraries in your area, you can also filter the list of libraries by country. Click once to add the library to your list, or click again to remove.

On your library list you should see all the libraries you have added earlier. You can also click on del to remove a library from the list.

To sort, click on Reorder, then drag and drop to re-order your libraries sequence. Click Done Reordering when you are done.

When you go back to your book list, it will search the first library in your list. To check other libraries, mouse over to the library name, and select another library name, and it will perform the search without a page refresh, thanks to AJAX for that.

Click on library call number, to view the book holding information or to reserve. Or if you mouse over, you can also click on SMS call no to your phone on a small yellow tooltip, if you need to visit the library to pickup the book. For special integration with Singapore National Library Board (NLB), you are able to view holding information directly from BookJetty.

The library search on the book list is very convenient to check multiple books availability in a library. But if you go to a book details page, you will be able to check if the book is found in all your local libraries.

If you no longer need the library service, you can click on the collapse button on top right corner.

Collapsed state of library search panel, it will stay collapsed when you browse other books until you expand it again.

Now try BookJetty with your local libraries. Click here for the list of libraries supported in BookJetty. If you can’t find your local library, suggest it here, or find out more about library integration with BookJetty.

If you encounter any problem, drop me a note, and I hope that you will find BookJetty useful. There are still tonnes of todo lists to work on BookJetty, your suggestions, comments, and bug reports will be definitely priceless to me.

Thank you.