diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.js b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.js
index cb413c0c9f..75eb55717a 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.js
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.js
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ScholarItemPane = new function()
 	
 	function changeTypeTo(id)
 	{
-		if(id != _itemBeingEdited.getType() && confirm('Are you sure you want to change the item type? Certain fields may be lost.'))
+		if(id != _itemBeingEdited.getType() && confirm(Scholar.getString('pane.item.changeType')))
 		{
 			_itemBeingEdited.setType(id);
 			_itemBeingEdited.save();
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ ScholarItemPane = new function()
 	function removeSelectedNote()
 	{
 		if(_notesField.value != "")
-			if(!confirm("Are you sure you want to delete the selected note?"))
+			if(!confirm(Scholar.getString('pane.item.notes.delete.confirm')))
 				return;
 		
 		var id = _selectedNoteID();
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ ScholarItemPane = new function()
 	function addNote()
 	{
 		modifySelectedNote();
-		_notesMenu.appendItem('Untitled Note',null);
+		_notesMenu.appendItem(Scholar.getString('pane.item.notes.untitled'),null);
 		_notesMenu.selectedIndex = _notesMenu.firstChild.childNodes.length-1;
 		
 		onNoteSelected();
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ ScholarItemPane = new function()
 		
 		if(t == "")
 		{
-			return "Untitled Note";
+			return Scholar.getString('pane.item.notes.untitled');
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ ScholarItemPane = new function()
 	{
 		var c = _notesMenu.firstChild.childNodes.length;
 		
-		_notesLabel.value = c + " note" + (c != 1 ? "s" : "") + ":";
+		_notesLabel.value = Scholar.getString('pane.item.notes.count.'+(c != 1 ? "plural" : "singular")).replace('%1',c) + ":";
 	}
 	
 	function _selectedNoteID()
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.xul b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.xul
index 934b36c275..f22f63659e 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.xul
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/itemPane.xul
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 	xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
 	
 	<script src="itemPane.js"/>	
-	<tabbox id="scholar-view-item" height="1000" style="margin-left: 5px;">
+	<tabbox id="scholar-view-item" height="1000">
 		<tabs>
-			<tab label="Notes"/>
-			<tab label="Info"/>
-			<tab label="Tags"/>
-			<tab label="Files"/>
+			<tab label="&tabs.notes.label;"/>
+			<tab label="&tabs.info.label;"/>
+			<tab label="&tabs.tags.label;"/>
+			<tab label="&tabs.files.label;"/>
 		</tabs>
 		<tabpanels flex="1">
 			<vbox>
@@ -19,15 +19,15 @@
 					<menulist flex="1" id="scholar-notes-menu" oncommand="ScholarItemPane.onNoteSelected();">
 						<menupopup/>
 					</menulist>
-					<label value="-" class="clicky" onclick="ScholarItemPane.removeSelectedNote();"/>
-					<label value="+" class="clicky" onclick="ScholarItemPane.addNote();"/>
+					<label value="&scholar.minus;" class="clicky" onclick="ScholarItemPane.removeSelectedNote();"/>
+					<label value="&scholar.plus;" class="clicky" onclick="ScholarItemPane.addNote();"/>
 				</hbox>
 				<textbox id="scholar-notes-field"
 					type="timed" timeout="1000" oncommand="ScholarItemPane.modifySelectedNote();"
 					multiline="true" flex="1"
 					onblur="ScholarItemPane.modifySelectedNote();"/>
 			</vbox>
-			<vbox id="scholar-metadata" flex="1">
+			<vbox id="scholar-info" flex="1">
 				<popupset>
 					<popup id="creatorTypeMenu" position="after_start" oncommand="ScholarItemPane.modifyCreator(document.popupNode.getAttribute('fieldname').split('-')[1],'typeID',event.explicitOriginalTarget.getAttribute('typeid'));"/>
 				</popupset>
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.js b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.js
index ab2500c54d..5647ad6fab 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.js
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.js
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ var ScholarPane = new function()
 			label.hidden = false;
 			
 			if(itemsView && itemsView.selection.count)
-				label.value = itemsView.selection.count + " items selected";	
+				label.value = Scholar.getString('pane.item.selected.multiple').replace('%1', itemsView.selection.count);	
 			else
-				label.value = "No items selected";
+				label.value = Scholar.getString('pane.item.selected.zero');
 		}
 
 	}
@@ -218,9 +218,9 @@ var ScholarPane = new function()
 			menu.childNodes[2].setAttribute('disabled', true);
 	
 		if(itemsView && itemsView.selection.count > 1)
-			menu.childNodes[2].setAttribute('label', 'Remove Selected Items...');
+			menu.childNodes[2].setAttribute('label', Scholar.getString('pane.items.menu.remove.multiple'));
 		else
-			menu.childNodes[2].setAttribute('label', 'Remove Selected Item...');	
+			menu.childNodes[2].setAttribute('label', Scholar.getString('pane.items.menu.remove'));	
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.xul b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.xul
index 2cccbad89e..be263b3c9d 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.xul
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/overlay.xul
@@ -26,22 +26,22 @@
 					<menuitem label="&toolbar.newCollection.label;" command="cmd_scholar_newCollection"/>
 					<menuseparator/>
 					<menuitem label="&toolbar.renameCollection.label;" oncommand="ScholarPane.renameSelectedCollection();"/>
-					<menuitem label="Remove Project..." oncommand="ScholarPane.deleteSelectedCollection();"/>
+					<menuitem label="&toolbar.removeCollection.label;" oncommand="ScholarPane.deleteSelectedCollection();"/>
 				</popup>
 				<popup id="scholar-itemmenu" onpopupshowing="ScholarPane.buildItemContextMenu();">
 					<menuitem label="&toolbar.newItem.label;" command="cmd_scholar_newItem"/>
 					<menuseparator/>
-					<menuitem label="Remove Item..." oncommand="ScholarPane.deleteSelectedItem();"/>
+					<menuitem oncommand="ScholarPane.deleteSelectedItem();"/>
 				</popup>
 			</popupset>
 			<toolbar align="end">
-				<label value="Scholar" style="font-size: larger;"/>
+				<label value="Scholar" id="scholar-toolbar-name"/>
 				<label value="1.0 Alpha"/>
 				<spacer flex="1"/>
 				<toolbarbutton class="tabs-closebutton" oncommand="ScholarPane.toggleDisplay()"/>
 			</toolbar>
 			<hbox flex="1">
-				<vbox persist="width" width="200" style="min-width: 150px;">
+				<vbox id="collections-pane" persist="width">
 					<toolbar>
 						<toolbarbutton id="tb-collection-add" tooltiptext="&toolbar.newCollection.label;" command="cmd_scholar_newCollection"/>
 						<toolbarbutton id="tb-collection-rename" tooltiptext="&toolbar.renameCollection.label;" oncommand="ScholarPane.renameSelectedCollection();" disabled="true"/>
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 					</tree>
 				</vbox>
 				<splitter id="scholar-tree-splitter" resizebefore="closest" resizeafter="closest"/>
-				<vbox persist="width" flex="1" style="min-width: 300px;">
+				<vbox id="items-pane" persist="width" flex="1">
 					<toolbar align="center">
 						<toolbarbutton id="tb-add" tooltiptext="&toolbar.newItem.label;" type="menu">
 							<menupopup/>
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 						</hbox>
 						<spacer flex="1"/>
 						<toolbarbutton label="Save"/>
-						<toolbarbutton label="+"/>
+						<toolbarbutton label="&scholar.plus;"/>
 					</hbox>
 					<tree 
 						id="items-tree" context="scholar-itemmenu"
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 					</tree>
 				</vbox>
 				<splitter id="scholar-view-splitter" collapse="after" persist="state"><grippy/></splitter>
-				<box width="300" style="min-width: 300px;" pack="center" align="center">
+				<box id="item-pane" pack="center" align="center">
 					<label id="scholar-view-selected-label"/>
 					<tabbox id="scholar-view-item" hidden="true" flex="1"/>
 				</box>
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@
 	<keyset id="mainKeyset">
 		<key id="key_openScholar"
 			 key="S" 
+			 oncommand="ScholarPane.toggleDisplay();"
 			 modifiers="shift accel" />
 	</keyset>
 </overlay>
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diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/preferences.xul b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/preferences.xul
index 9d01e1b243..0b3152c889 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/preferences.xul
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/preferences.xul
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 <dialogheader id="header" title="&scholar.name;" description="&scholar.preferences.title;"/>
 
-<checkbox id="autoUpdateBox" label="Automatically check for updated scrapers"/>
+<checkbox id="autoUpdateBox" label="&scholar.preferences.autoUpdate.label;"/>
 
 
 </dialog>
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diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/preferences.dtd b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/preferences.dtd
index 1862b396a1..23caadc9e1 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/preferences.dtd
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/preferences.dtd
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 <!ENTITY scholar.name					"Scholar">
-<!ENTITY scholar.preferences.title		"Scholar Preferences">
\ No newline at end of file
+<!ENTITY scholar.preferences.title		"Scholar Preferences">
+<!ENTITY scholar.preferences.autoUpdate.label		"Automatically check for updated scrapers">
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.dtd b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.dtd
index 8dd63d0f11..24ef7e934b 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.dtd
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.dtd
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!ENTITY scholar.name					"Scholar">
 
-<!ENTITY metadata.label					"Metadata">
-<!ENTITY notes.label					"Notes">
+<!ENTITY tabs.info.label				"Info">
+<!ENTITY tabs.notes.label				"Notes">
+<!ENTITY tabs.tags.label				"Tags">
+<!ENTITY tabs.files.label				"Files">
 
-<!ENTITY metadata.creators.label		"Creators">
-<!ENTITY metadata.edit.label			"Edit">
-<!ENTITY metadata.cancel.label			"Cancel">
-<!ENTITY metadata.save.label			"Save">
+<!ENTITY scholar.minus					"-">
+<!ENTITY scholar.plus					"+">
 
 <!ENTITY items.type_column 				"Type">
 <!ENTITY items.title_column 			"Title">
@@ -20,12 +20,8 @@
 <!ENTITY collections.name_column		"Name">
 
 <!ENTITY toolbar.newItem.label    		"New Item">
+<!ENTITY toolbar.removeItem.label   "Remove Item...">
 <!ENTITY toolbar.newCollection.label   	"New Project">
 <!ENTITY toolbar.renameCollection.label   "Rename Project...">
-<!ENTITY toolbar.search.label   			"Search:">
-<!ENTITY toolbar.metadata.label   			"Metadata">
-<!ENTITY toolbar.notes.label   			"Notes">
-
-<!ENTITY closeCmd.label 				"Close">
-<!ENTITY closeCmd.accesskey 			"C">
-<!ENTITY closeCmd.commandkey 			"W">
\ No newline at end of file
+<!ENTITY toolbar.removeCollection.label   "Remove Project...">
+<!ENTITY toolbar.search.label   			"Search:">
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.properties b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.properties
index 9bf83e4639..ff0081e3d6 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.properties
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.properties
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
-pane.items.delete				= Are you sure you want to delete the selected item?
-pane.items.delete.multiple		= Are you sure you want to delete the selected items?
 pane.collections.delete			= Are you sure you want to delete the selected project?
 pane.collections.delete.multiple	= Are you sure you want to delete the selected projects?
 pane.collections.rename			= Rename Project:
-
-pane.collections.library		= Library
+pane.collections.library		= My Library
 pane.collections.untitled		= Untitled Project
 
-metadata.savechanges			= Do you want to save changes to '%1'?
+pane.items.delete				= Are you sure you want to delete the selected item?
+pane.items.delete.multiple		= Are you sure you want to delete the selected items?
+pane.items.menu.remove			= Remove Selected Item...
+pane.items.menu.remove.multiple	= Remove Selected Items...
+
+pane.item.selected.zero			= No items selected
+pane.item.selected.multiple		= %1 items selected
+
+pane.item.changeType			= Are you sure you want to change the item type? Certain fields may be lost.
+pane.item.notes.untitled        = Untitled Note
+pane.item.notes.delete.confirm  = Are you sure you want to delete the selected note?
+pane.item.notes.count.singular  = %1 note
+pane.item.notes.count.plural    = %1 notes
 
 itemFields.title        		= Title
 itemFields.dateAdded    		= Date Added
@@ -15,7 +24,6 @@ itemFields.dateModified 		= Modified
 itemFields.source       		= Source
 itemFields.rights       		= Rights
 itemFields.notes       			= Notes
-
 itemFields.series       		= Series
 itemFields.volume       		= Volume
 itemFields.number       		= Number
diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/skin/default/scholar/overlay.css b/chrome/chromeFiles/skin/default/scholar/overlay.css
index 93709aeb15..6893d5bb78 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/skin/default/scholar/overlay.css
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/skin/default/scholar/overlay.css
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ vbox #scholar-pane
 	padding: 4px;
 }
 
-tree #collections-tree
+#collections-pane
 {
-	min-width: 100px;
+	min-width: 150px;
 	max-width: 200px;
+	width: 150px;
 }
 
 #collections-tree treechildren::-moz-tree-image
@@ -21,9 +22,37 @@ tree #collections-tree
 	background: #f5f5f5;
 }
 
-tree #items-tree
+#items-pane
 {
+	min-width: 300px;
+}
 
+#item-pane
+{
+	width: 300px;
+	min-width: 300px;
+}
+
+#scholar-pane toolbar
+{
+	border-bottom: none;
+	background: #f5f5f5;
+	height: 24px;
+}
+
+#scholar-pane toolbar toolbarbutton
+{
+	
+}
+
+#scholar-pane toolbar .toggler
+{
+	margin: 4px;
+}
+
+#scholar-toolbar-name
+{
+	font-size: larger;
 }
 
 #tb-collection-add
@@ -46,38 +75,12 @@ tree #items-tree
 	list-style-image: url('chrome://scholar/skin/toolbar-item-add.png');
 }
 
-#scholar-pane toolbar
-{
-	border-bottom: none;
-	background: #f5f5f5;
-	height: 24px;
-}
-
-#scholar-pane toolbar toolbarbutton
-{
-	
-}
-
-#scholar-pane toolbar .toggler
-{
-	margin: 4px;
-}
-
 #tb-search
 {
 	width: 150px;
 }
 
-#scholar-splitter
-{
-	border-top: none;
-	border-bottom: 1px solid #A3A3A3;
-	min-height: 4px;
-	max-height: 4px;
-	background: #f5f5f5 !important;
-}
-
-#scholar-metadata
+#scholar-info
 {
 	overflow: auto;
 }
@@ -87,6 +90,10 @@ tree #items-tree
 	-moz-user-focus: ignore;
 }
 
+#scholar-view-item
+{
+	margin-left: 5px;
+}
 #scholar-view-item tabpanels
 {
 	padding: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
@@ -106,4 +113,13 @@ tree #items-tree
 textbox[multiline="true"][type="timed"]
 {
 	-moz-binding: url('chrome://scholar/content/customControls.xml#timed-textarea');
+}
+
+#scholar-splitter
+{
+	border-top: none;
+	border-bottom: 1px solid #A3A3A3;
+	min-height: 4px;
+	max-height: 4px;
+	background: #f5f5f5 !important;
 }
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