[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11361] Add a Z39.50 search page in the OPAC to let members search for records on remote Koha instances

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11361

--- Comment #27 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Frédérick Capovilla from comment #0)
> This patch adds the OPACZ3950 preference which activates a "Z39.50 Search"
> page in the OPAC.
> 

That sounds like a misleading preference name which could easily confuse
people. Perhaps a better one would be something like SearchRemoteKoha.

> This page can be used to let members search for biblio records on remote
> Koha instances. If the "Show" link is clicked in the results page, the user
> is then redirected to the remote Koha's OPAC to see the record's details.
> 
> This feature can be useful if you have multiple libraries with their own
> Koha instance and you want your users to be able to search for books in your
> other libraries.
> 
> Please note that this will only work with Koha instances. The links in the
> results page won't work with other normal Z39.50 servers.
> 

It's an interesting idea. In the past, we put together a Koha union catalogue
that harvested from individual Koha instances (we injected the Koha URLs into
the records as they're harvested). We didn't use the union catalogue in the
end, but that seems a more standards based way of doing things.

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