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Background: The NUCLC is a joint effort of the Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Lehi, and Eagle Mountain libraries to provide extended resources to our patrons across Northern Utah County. This is not a county library system. 

Because it is not a county library system, the libraries do not have a unified ILS. Between the four library there are three different interfaces.

Goal: I was tasked with creating a search tool that allows patrons to search all four libraries simultaneously for an item.

Features: 

• Ajaxy interface to minimize page loads
• Result from all four libraries with copy statuses
• Images to quickly identify material type (Book, Audio-CD, Cassette Tape, Playaway, DVD)
• Voice Search (Chrome only)

Technology: To accomplish this task I used the CodeIgniter Framework which is a small and quick PHP framwork. I also incorporated jQuery for most of the javascript and Ajax requests.