Facebook
Inspired by the recent Web 2.0 drop in session, we have recently set up a Facebook page for the EFL: http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=english+faculty+library+oxford&init=quick#/pages/Oxford-United-Kingdom/English-Faculty-Library-University-of-Oxford/123908545763?ref=search&sid=524934723.1505080688..1

We hope to use the page to highlight library training sessions and news and to point readers to our website which remains the main source of online information for the EFL. We will be advertising the Facebook page in time for the start of term and hope to gain a lot more fans then, although it seems that some have already found us!

One unique selling point for our page is an adapted version of the SOLO widget- readers can search SOLO, Oxlip+ and e-Journals directly from the EFL Facebook page. It looks slightly different to the usual tabbed SOLO search box, but the changes were necessary to work within the Facebook HTML editing application Static FBML and the functionality is still the same. If other libraries would like this for their Facebook pages please get in touch.

It will be interesting to see how future Facebook applications such as Static FBML allow libraries to tailor their pages to their readers' needs.


Steps for adding this SOLO widget to Facebook
In Facebook, search for 'Static FBML'
Select 'Add to my page' and select your page.
Go to your page and click on 'Edit Page'. There should be a new box under 'Applications' called 'FBML-FBML'
Click on the pencil in the top right corner of the FBML box, click Edit.
Change the Box Title to SOLO.
Copy and paste the code (below) into the text box.
Click 'Save Changes'.
Go to 'Edit Page'.
Click on the pencil in the top right corner of the FBML box and click 'Application Settings'. (At this stage SOLO will appear in your Boxes tab.) If you want SOLO to appear as a separate tab, click 'add' after Tab:Available.
There should now be an individual tab for SOLO, and it will also appear in the Boxes tab. For the EFL page we have moved the copy from the Boxes tab to the main Facebook wall. To do this, click on the Boxes tab, click on pencil to edit SOLO, click 'Move to Wall tab'. Alternatively, click 'Remove Box' to avoid duplication.

The code
(this is a pared down version of the code behind http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/solo/widget, and what I could get to work with FBML. I am not a code guru, so apologies if any of it is redundant!)

<div id="header"><div id="search_box">
<div id="new_div_43680">
<table border="0" align="left"><tr><td>
<div class="tabber" id="tab2">

<div class="tabbertab tabbertabdefault">
<h2>SOLO</h2>
<div style="display:none;">
main_search_layout***form.rta=none***delCtegory=***sourceSystem=***activeSourceSystem=[Aleph]***ct=***isActivatedSystem=******
</div>

<form name="searchForm" method="post" action="http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?fn=go&amp;ct=search" class="simple" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" target="_blank">

<div style="display:none">
institution = University of Oxford
institution code = OX
</div>

<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="Basic"/>
<input type="hidden" name="tab" value="local"/>
<input type="hidden" name="indx" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="dum" value="true"/>
<input type="hidden" name="srt" value="rank" id="str"/>

<input type="hidden" name="vid" value="OXVU1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="frbg" value=""/>

<div class="searchLimit">
<label for="search_field" style="text-decoration:none; font-family:tahoma; font-size:9px; margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:6px; font-weight:normal; color:#3458a7;">Search OULS Library Collections</label><br />
<input type="text" class="" id="search_field" style="margin-left:6px;" name="vl(freeText0)" value='' onkeydown="" accesskey="s" size="18" />
&nbsp;<input type="image" name="go" src="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/solo/images/searchgo.gif" border="0" accesskey="g"><br />
</div>

<div class="searchLimit2">

<input type="hidden" name="vl(726876UI1)" value="all_items"/>
<input type="hidden" name="vl(1UI0)" value="contains"/>
<input type="hidden" name="vl(726878UI0)" value="any"/>
<input type="hidden" name="scp.scps" value="scope:(&#034;OX&#034;)"/>
</div>
</form>
</div>



<div class="tabbertab">
<h2>OxLIP+</h2>
<form method="get" action="http://oxford1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:8331/V/" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="func" value="find-db-1-title">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="titles">
<input type="hidden" name="azlist" value="N">
<input type="hidden" name="scan_utf" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="restricted" value="all">

<input type="hidden" name="search_type" value="contains">
<div id="find_db_form">

<label for="scan_start" style="text-decoration:none; font-family:tahoma; font-size:9px; margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:6px; font-weight:normal; color:#3458a7;">Search Titles</label><br />
<input class="bordered_input" type="text" style="margin-left:6px;" name="scan_start" id="scan_start" value="" size="18" />
&nbsp;<input type="image" name="go" src="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/solo/images/searchgo.gif" border="0" accesskey="G"><br />

</div>
</form>
</div>



<div class="tabbertab">
<h2>e-Journals</h2>
<form method="get" target="AZ_Window" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/oxford/az/default" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="param_perform_value" value="searchTitle">
<input type="hidden" name="param_jumpToPage_value" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="param_type_value" value="textSearch">
<input type="hidden" name="param_chinese_checkbox_active" value="1">


<label for="param_pattern_value"><font style="text-decoration:none; font-family:tahoma; font-size:9px; margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:6px; font-weight:normal; color:#3458a7;">Oxford University e-Journals</font></label><br />
<input type=text style="margin-left:6px;" name="param_pattern_value" id="param_pattern_value" size="18" />
&nbsp;<input type="image" name="go" src="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/solo/images/searchgo.gif" border="0"><br />

<input type=hidden name=param_chinese_checkbox_value id=param_chinese_checkbox_value value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="param_textSearchType_value" value="contains">
</form>
</div>