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Submitted by nknouf on 3 December 2009 - 3:06am
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3 December 2009

A new project: a greasemonkey script (or Firefox extension) for replacing the new search form on the Cornell Libraries website with their older form. I wrote this because of their switch to an external provider (worldcat.org) of library catalog services this semester. There are severe privacy concerns with sending such unencrypted library search information to a third-party source. Additionally, they now “provide” links to multinational corporations to “purchase” items that are in the collection. Both of these aspects go directly against the library’s core mission.

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