This document discusses the benefits of creating a library toolbar to provide quick access to a library's resources. It explains that a toolbar is a shortcut that contains buttons for commonly used commands. The presentation aims to explain how a library toolbar interacts with a catalogue and helps users access resources easily with one click. It provides tips for creating a toolbar through free hosting websites and customizing it with the library's logo and search functions. The document argues that a toolbar keeps the library constantly visible to users and saves staff and user time by providing direct access points to the OPAC, databases, journals and other materials without visiting the library website.

1. Presented By:
Surendra Kumar Pal
Library & Information Asst. Trainee
IISER-Thrivananthapuram

2.  Introduction
 What is Library Toolbar.
 Why Toolbar.
 Features of Library Toolbar.
 Method of Creating a Library Toolbar.
 Advantage/Limitation of Library Toolbar.
 Best Method of Access a Library.
 Some Tips About Library Toolbar.

3.  Objective of this presentation are:
1) To Explain the Concept of Library toolbar.
2) To describe how the toolbar interacts with the library
catalogue, its use and how users evaluate it.
3) How to Implement the Ranganathan Fourth and Third Law.
4) How to Helpful to our User.
5) How to Manage Resources Easily.
6) How to Maximum Utilize of our Library & Resources.
7) Easy installation/Unstalation
8) Best Shortcut of Entering a Library Resources without login
library web address.

4.  Library is Key of Knowledge Where You can broke every lock of
needs.
 In Present day, library have a Massive collection specially old
library with the reference of Print or Non-Print materials. But the
interpretation of Computer in libraries, We can easily access the E-
resources.
 Due to the huge collection of resources, User didn’t get his/her
choice of document. For the Saving of his/her time we can create a
toolbar for our library.
 Bringing users to the resources selected by the library in a simple
way is a challenge, especially for current libraries where resources
are more and more located in the clouds.
 Users spending most of their time on the Web, far from the Intranet
or the OPAC, librarians may provide them with a Conduit Toolbar
:-a free toolbar that you can customize to your needs and let install
on major Web browsers. The main advantage of the toolbar is that it
is always visible when surfing the Web.

5.  What is a toolbar?
 Simplelly a toolbar is a nothing but it’s a shortcut of location
where document are:
 A toolbar is part of a window, often a bar across the top, that
contains buttons that execute commands when you click them.
Many applications contain toolbars that you can customize so
the commands you use frequently are readily available and
easily identifiable. Many dialog boxes also contain toolbars.
 For many applications, you can specify which toolbars are
visible and what icons or text appear on the buttons; consult
the application's help screens or documentation for details.


6.  Fewer people visit library website to
begin their search.
 Constant presence in User’s interest.
 All patron are familiar with the format of
browser toolbars.

7.  Books and other materials can be searched by author, title, keyword, etc. in
any one or all of the IISERTVM Libraries. Searching can be done with as
little as a single click with no need to traverse the IISER-LIBRARY web
site.
 The search box, with dropdown menus for type of search and scope of the
search are right on every browser window as part of the IISER Free
Library toolbar.
 The toolbar is available as an extension to Internet Explorer and Mozilla
Firefox and adds new functionality to these browsers. After a user installs
the toolbar, its buttons and search fields provide quick access to resources
including:
 Search engines such as our library catalog and Google Scholar
 A journal finder linking to iiser’s journal portal
 Links to our library’s homepage, OPAC, databases, theses portal and “My
account” interface

8. In the present day, It is very easy to create a toolbar for our
library.
Many of Website have provide the chance to create it as free
of cost. Just login with in and in some step we create a toolbar
application setup. Ex. http://scholar.google.com, Conduct.com
etc.

9.  1. Login with the host website.
 2. Click on create toolbar
 3. Upload your logo
 4. Add your search for the Catalogue.
 5. Given the link to our library web address.
 Some of following slide for showing the next steps:

10.  Printscreen, paste at paint. Finnaally publish
here
 Delete this text of both slide

11.  Printscreen, paste at paint. Finnaally publish
here

13.  It’s gives to chance of maximum resources in a few minutes of
our customer.
 User may be much satisfied to our services.
 Search box for Catalogue of our library.
 Toolbar also help to attract the user for using the library
resources.
 Here we can publish Blogs, link to other website, News,
Massage, Social Networking site.
 Automatically Updated.

14.  With the help of toolbar we can save the time of User/Staff.
 Easily User can enter the library without searching the URL of
our Library.
 User can access our library OPAC, e-book, Database,
Journals, archive, and Services.

15.  Your browser may alert you to an attempt to install software when
downloading , you'll need to set it to allow installations from this
site (you set this on a site-by-site basis)
 You can always hide your toolbar(s) by right clicking in the area to
the right of the toolbar, if you want to install multiple toolbars just
choose which to show or hide at any time
 You can make changes to the toolbar components by choosing
"Toolbar Options" in the dropdown menu to the right of our library
logo
 Toolbar content is updated automatically for you - no need to keep
reinstalling
 We promote it on our website, Meeting of user at seminar hall& by word-
of-mouth, also by e-mail we’ve invited all our users to download the
toolbar .

16. Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research Library-Thiruvananthapuram
Thank You!