[Koha-devel] RFC: Improved book covers

[Ian Walls]

Nick,


Very interesting!  I look forward to poking around in it, and seeing what
could be integrated into Koha.  Thanks for sharing!


-Ian

2011/7/25 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt at 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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