Widgets and Tools What is a widget? A widget is something you
can add to a web page or install into your web browser to
integrate it with something else that's out on the internet,
often in a customized way. One common example would be those
boxes that people add to their blogs that show the weather in
their home locations. Widgets such as this allow a person to add
a snippet of code to her own website that interfaces with
another website. Our widgets are designed to make it easy to
connect your students to the resources in our library, whether
through your course websites or WebCT and Moodle. The links
below lead to pages where you can see what these widgets look
like, try them out, customize them, and generate the code you
need to insert them into your web pages. In addition, you will
find some browser add-ons that make using the UMD Library more
convenient.