The Penn Libraries Toolbar is a custom-made web browser extension for University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff.
It provides a persistent search box that allows you to search:
- The Penn website using Google
- Penn Libraries web pagesm databases, e-journals, FAQs and more using FindIt!
- Franklin Library catalog by Title, Keywords, Author and Journal Title
- VCat, the video catalog for videos and DVD Collections in the Penn Libraries
- Databases such as EBSCO Megafile, JSTOR, ABI/Inform, PubMed, ScienceDirect and WorldCat
- Google and Google Scholar
It also provides links to frequently used Penn and Penn Libraries websites, Webmail, Ask a Librarian, Blackboard and the Penn Library social bookmarking tool, PennTags.
You can find the installer for the latest build of all versions of the Penn Toolbar
here.
- After the initial installation, the Firefox version of the toolbar should notify you of any updates and install them automatically.
- The Internet Explorer version requires manual updates.
1. Open Firefox.
2. Select Tools > Add-ons and click Extensions
3. Select Penn Toolbar and click the Uninstall button.
1. Close Internet Explorer
2. Open the Windows Control Panel (usually: Start Menu > Control Panel)
3. Choose Add or Remove Programs
4. Scroll down to Penn Toolbar and click on it.
5. Click on Change/Remove
6. When asked "All running IE Windows will be closed before toolbar's Uninstall. Continue?" Click Yes.
