[Koha-devel] Koha + Blacklight

[Nicole Engard]

Chris,

Thank you so much for sharing!! I have been wanting to see a
Koha/Blacklight combo for ages now.  This is awesome.

Nicole


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Fitzpatrick, Christopher <cf at wmu.se> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We recently launched a beta version of a Blacklight (
> https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight)  instance that is backed
> by our Koha ILS. You can see it here => http://beacon.wmu.se/ .
>
> Currently, it takes indexes nightly MARC dumps from Koha into Solr, with
> live availability and location lookups performed asynchronously through the
>  koha-restful  api. I am wanting to replace some of this, as it would be
> really nice for us to have the ability to facet on availabilty and location
> in Solr (i.e. "Show me only items that are not checked out" or "Show me
> only items shelved in Course Reserves").
>
> There is also functionality for users to log-in and place holds and check
> their account, but I have not enabled it yet since the person who issues
> our SSL certs is away on midsummer holiday (we use Google Apps for Email,
> which requires SSL for OAuth access).
>
> There's still quite a bit of work that needs to be done, especially fixing
> a lot of our catalog records. But in all it works pretty well.
>
> Feel free to ask any questions you might have either on list or directly
> (although I might not respond immediately  as I'll be on the Cycle4Lib ride
> this next week, so my internet connectivity might be spotty ).
>
> Thanks again for all the help.
> best regards, chris.
>
>
>
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