A pre-compiled version can be downloaded directly from Firefox’s Add-ons page.
This toolbar searches the resources of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. You must be affiliated with BYU and have a current Route Y ID and password to access the databases. However, the features of the extension can be used by all. The toolbar has the following features:
- Preferences panel that allows you to select the default search type when Firefox is opened
- Add any web page to your personalized “My Library” page
- Direct access to the following library webpages:
- The library homepage
- Contact information
- Step-by-step research guides
- Library hours
- Floor maps
- Group study room reservations
- My account (renew books online)
- Interlibrary loan
- Directly search the library’s resources:
- Search multiple databases simultaneously (including the library catalog)
- Search Google Scholar
- Find journals
- Search only the library catalog
- Directly link to BYU resources:
- Route Y
- Blackboard
- Add any web page to your personalized “My Library” page
- Search the library catalog using Amazon.com
- Perform a library catalog search directly from Amazon.com (will automatically insert a link into Amazon.com’s record of a book)