The ask page and the embed
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When you turn on Ask My Library, your public collections get an ask page at
/ask/ followed by your username, and a smaller version you can put on your own site.
The ask page
Visitors see your persona name, blurb and greeting, and a box with the hint Ask anything answerable from this library…. They write a question and get an answer from your public items, with citations. Under the box they see how many free questions are left that day. Signed-out visitors are invited to create a free account to keep asking.
Answers cite only your public saves (Answers cite this library's public saves.). If nothing fits, the page says it could not find anything and suggests rephrasing. When a visitor reaches the daily limit you set, the page says Daily question limit reached. Try again later..
If you have not turned the feature on, or have no public collections, visitors see No library agent here.
The embed
- Open Library agent and copy the code under Embed on your site.
- Paste it where you want the box. It is an
iframepointing at/ask/<username>/embed, 100 percent wide and 420 pixels high. - Visitors see the number of public items, your suggested questions as buttons, a box, and the line Answers come only from public items, with sources..
- When a visitor has asked all the questions you allow per day, the embed says so and asks them to come back tomorrow.