I thought I’d take a couple screenshots of the University of Alberta Libraries Facebook application that I mentioned a couple weeks ago. I really like how it displays its catalog results within Facebook – down to the item level. The app on the profile page is unremarkable – it provides a link to the application page. However, the application provides quite a bit of functionality.

Here is the catalog search in the application:

Here is the results page after doing a search in the catalog:

And here is a catalog record page:

Nice! Clicking on New Search, Reserve Desk, and My Account all keep you within the Facebook application as well. There are more features to this application, so it is worth checking out. Also, this app has over 500 users!

Link: University of Alberta Libraries Facebook Application