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Widgets

Give your patrons access to virtual reference assistance while on your library’s website and catalog with Ask a Librarian widgets!

Ask a Librarian widgets embedded on a web page allow your patrons to contact you by chat, SMS, or email without leaving your website. Chat widgets are created to match the look and feel of your library website. An iframe tag places the AaL hosted widget anywhere on your page. Contact the Ask a Librarian Helpdesk to add or modify a widget for your library.

Chat can be configured as button pop-out, in-page, floating, or slide-out. Here are some samples of widgets currently being used by member libraries.

Button pop-out chat widgets

Eastern Florida State College

Heartland Library Cooperative

Pasco-Hernando State College

St Petersburg College

In-page chat widgets

College of Central Florida

   

 

 

 

Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library

 

Slideout widget

A slideout widget appears as a tab on the upper right side of this page.