Hello everyone,
My name is Melissa Clarkson and I am the Team Leader of the Library at
Dear Koha-OZ member, Recently, there was a call for community support to fund the development of a feature in Koha that needs improving. The funding was secured rapidly, work was started today and I am told "good progress is being made". I paste below the series of emails that show what can be achieved in a community like ours. Apologies for cross-posting these emails if you have already read them on the general Koha e-list. If you have a development requirement for your library or resources centre and you think it might be of interest to others as well, let us know and we will happily help you look for support in the wider Koha community. Best regards, Irma CALYX From: <kathryn@catalyst.net.nz> Date: 11 June 2014 10:22 Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Development Opportunity : Display of images in OPAC from multiple sources To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz, nzusergroup@mykoha.co.nz Cc: Melissa Clarkson <melissa.clarkson@nzica.com> Kia ora koutou, Just to let you know that Melissa found the required support for funding this enhancement to Koha, and development is now underway. Many thanks to the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants, Region Halland libraries (Sweden), South Taranaki District Libraries (NZ), NZ Education Institute and Libriotech of (Norway) for your contributions. Despite being on directly opposite sides of the globe from each other, we all want the same things :) Wishing you all a lovely day, Kathryn Kathryn Tyree Catalyst IT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kathryn Tyree <kathryn@catalyst.net.nz> Date: 23 May 2014 09:33 Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Development Opportunity : Display of images in OPAC from multiple sources To: Melissa Clarkson <melissa.clarkson@nzica.com> Cc: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>, " nzusergroup@mykoha.co.nz." <nzusergroup@mykoha.co.nz> Hi everyone, For further info, here's a link to the RFC Robin wrote: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Covers_from_multiple_sources_RFC Cheers, Kathryn Kathryn Tyree for the Koha team at Catalyst IT kathryn@catalyst.net.nz On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 02:40 +0000, Melissa Clarkson wrote: the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. We have been on Koha for 2 ½ years.
We have started scanning book cover images that are not available from
Amazon to have them available in our OPAC and also our current awareness bulletin. They display great in the bulletin, but in the OPAC it creates formatting issues and looks plain ugly.
I have approached Catalyst IT in Wellington New Zealand about this issue,
and they have advised that it will take 28 hours. They will work through the bug that is creating this issue. The outcome will be that we can use multiple sources to get the book covers from, including local images uploaded in to Koha. I can’t justify paying for all of this given it is 28 hours, so I’m coming to the community to see if you would be interested in contributing to a joint development of this.>
If you are interested, please respond by email by 4 June 2014, with how
many hours you’d be able to contribute to this development.
Thank you in advance
Melissa>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> Date: 23 May 2014 18:30 Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Development Opportunity : Display of images in OPAC from multiple sources To: melissa.clarkson@nzica.com Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz, nzusergroup@mykoha.co.nz Hi! I would be interesting in contributing a part of the cost of this in order to make it happen. Kind regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se< mailto:Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek< http://www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek>