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Last Updated: 27-Sep-2012

Research Skills

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This guide shows a sample of each type of widget for staff instruction purposes.

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Sarah Lester
Sarah E Lester
Engineering Librarian for Outreach, Instruction and Electronic Resources
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Music Library
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Text and links widgets

Add text widget

The Add text widget lets you control the format of the content.  Refer to the Content Creation Guide for how to use things like headings, etc.  

This widget also allows you to add tables for tabular data, for example, this list of LC call number ranges from Music:

ML 416 Biographies of organists
ML 424 Instrument manufacturers
ML 549-647 Organ construction; history; music and playing

Add links widget

Use this widget to add links with descriptive annotations.  You can apply a Stanford only and/or Key Resource icon to each link.

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SearchWorks
SearchWorks is the Stanford University Libraries discovery tool. Use it to find books, media, and all the many items in our collections.

Embed code widget

Add embed code widget

Video of Curiosity's Descent

SearchWorks widgets

Add SearchWorks feed widget - search query

This feed is created by entering search terms (Moby Dick) in the Search query box.

› See all 298 results
  1. Moby-Dick : an opera in two acts, based on the novel by Herman Melville

    music by Jake Heggie ; libretto by Gene Scheer ; piano/vocal score. 2010

    Music » Scores » M1503 .H4596 M6 2010

  2. Moby Dick [videorecording]

    USA Pictures presents a Whale/Nine Network Australia production ; a United Kingdom/Australian co-production ; producers, Franc Roddam, Kris Noble ; produced by Steve McGlothen ; teleplay by Anton Diether, Franc Roddam ; directed by Franc Roddam. 1999

    SAL 1&2 » Use restricted to Green » ZVC 15797

  3. Moby Dick

    Art » Stacks » N6497 .M65 2009

  4. Moby Dick [sound recording] : scenes from an imaginary opera

    Peter Westergaard. 2005

    Music » Recordings » MCD 12315

Add SearchWorks feed widget - link from SearchWorks

Using a link from SearchWorks allows you to apply sorting and facets, like this result (Moby Dick, limited to Videos, sorted showing most recent). Do your search in SearchWorks, then copy and paste the URL into the Search URL field.

› See all 12 results
  1. Un baiser s'il vous plaît [videorecording]

    Frédéric Nidermayer présente une coproduction Moby Dick Films, Arte France cinéma avec la participation de Canal+ et de TPS Star ; un film écrit et réalisé par Emmanuel Mouret ; produit par Frédéric Nidermayer. 2010

    Green » Media-Microtext (Lower Level) » ZDVD 27140

  2. Into the deep [videorecording] : America, whaling & the world

    American Experience Films presents, A Steeplechase Films Production for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; Series producer, Susan Bellows ; senior producer, Sharon Grimberg ; executive producer, Mark Samels ; producers, Bonnie Lafave, Mary Recine, Robin Espinola, Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns. 2010

    Green » Stacks » ZDVD 24466

Add SearchWorks items widget - books

This is a list of books created using their ckey

C.S. Lewis : a reference guide, 1972-1988 / Susan Lowenberg.
New York : G.K. Hall & Co. ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
Green » Stacks » Z8504.37 .L68 1993

This is a great book!

The voyage of the Dawn Treader. Illus. by Pauline Baynes.
New York, Macmillan, 1952.
SAL 1&2 » Stacks » 823.7 .L66VT
The voyage of the Dawn Treader. Illus. by Pauline Baynes.
New York, Macmillan, 1952.
SAL 1&2 » Stacks » 823.7 .L66VT

Add SearchWorks items widget - e-resources

These are e-resources from SearchWorks.  The ckey brings in the data, the link goes to the e-resource instead of SearchWorks.

AccessScience [electronic resource] : McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology online / McGraw-Hill.
[United States] : McGraw-Hill, [2000?]-

McGraw-Hill Access Science is a great encyclopedia for getting background information for your research.

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.

Academic Search Premier is a great interdisciplinary database.

Other widgets

Add RSS feed widget

This is an RSS feed from Stanford News Service.  RSS feeds will only work if they are properly formed.  Check your feed at http://validator.w3.org/feed/