2011/7/25 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt@gmail.com>

Hi all,

We've been avid users of Koha here at Perth Bible College for quite a few years now. Recently, I've done some work to improve the book cover system here at PBC. A lot of our records lack ISBN records (BAD library practices in the old library system!), and I really wanted something nicer than a "cover not found" image. The result (attached) is an html/css book cover generating system - which also locally stores covers attained from librarything and openlibrary, redirecting to an amazon image if no cover is found. Unfortunately, it's in php - since I'm more familiar with that. :( The kernel for the system (though it's been *heavily* modified is courtesy a script by Art Zemon from 2008.

We also put together a newbooks display. The results can be seen on the landing page: http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au/ - (and there you'll see that even some of our "new" books don't have ISBNs! <groan>)

Hoping this might be of use to someone else. Something like the html/css book cover system could, in my opinion, be very useful...

Nick van Oudtshoorn
Perth Bible College

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