[Koha-devel] RFC: Improved book covers

[Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn]

Thanks Ian! If you like, I can provide an updated version (running on
3.4.2 rather than 3.2) next week when I get back to the server...

Nick

On 8/12/11, Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> 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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