WorldCat Widget for Wordpress

In this presentation, Karen will describe how she built a widget for Wordpress that searches WorldCat returns bibliographic data via the WorldCat API and then recombines it with book covers from Amazon, links to previews (when available) in Google Books and reviews from LibraryThing and displays it in the sidebar of Wordpress.

Some Helpful Links

WorldCat API

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection

GoogleBook API Information

LibraryThing API Documentation

OpenLibrary API Documentation

Widget Code - This a very rough prototype version that needs more work!

Karen A. Coombs is the Head of Library Web Services, University of Houston Libraries.