What is the difference between these website features and which is the right one for you? Read the descriptions below before you complete the next two lessons.
Widget - A widget is a mini-app on a website that interacts with users. In this case, it is a Fetch search box "embedded" on your website. Using a Fetch widget makes it easy for your students, their parents, and your colleagues to search your school library catalog from a website or learning management system. Adding a widget will allow your students to get immediate results without having to stop on a landing page.
Button or Link - A Fetch button is a hyperlinked image on a website. It is similar to a link which should be understood as a hotlink or hyperlink that uses linked text and not an image. That means that one click will allow students, their parents, and your colleagues to search your school library catalog. See the Hudson Middle School library page for an example of an ISearch button.
With this lesson, learn how to add a Fetch button to your school website, your school library website, or your learning management system. The next lesson will provide the steps needed if you wish to create a widget.
To link to Fetch, or to create a Fetch button, you'll need to know your school library's unique Fetch URL. If there are multiple libraries in your district, you probably have multiple Fetch URLs.
Your Fetch URL(s) will look something like these examples:
All URLs begin:
Following this, URLs include the code for the ITC, the district, and the individual library.
To create your Fetch button:
Need to know how to code a hotlinked image? Try this:
<a href="https://YOUR_UNIQUE_LIBRARY_FETCH_URL" target="_blank"><img src="/url_where_you_store_images" alt="FetchLogo" style="width: 400px; height: 96px;" /></a>
Note: the URL above is not an active link, but an example of how to build a code to add a hyperlink to your school or library website. Copy to code format, inserting the correct code information for the red data.
274 E 1st Ave #100
Columbus OH 43201
614-647-3486
central@infohio.org
Fetch is avaiable to INFOhio automated schools. If you are an INFOhio school, please log in with your school username/password using the button at the top-left corner of this page.
For more information about Fetch, please visit the Fetch information page or contact INFOhio support at https://support.infohio.org.