On 12/28/07, Fred.King@medstar.net <Fred.King@medstar.net> wrote:
This question finally prompted me to post my own comments and questions to the list. I've been experimenting with Koha for the past couple of months--I've set up Koha for Windows on a couple of computers, and I have the Ubuntu VM version on a couple of PCs to play around with as well. Our library (8000 or so books, plus a few thousand bound journals) is considering changing ILSs, and I've been looking into both Koha and Evergreen.
However, that doesn't have a lot to do with my current question: is there a way to link a locally-stored thumbnail image to a record so that it displays in a catalog search? I'm thinking of putting a photo archive into Koha as a way to teach myself how to use it. (If we do switch ILSs at work, I'm going to know a lot more about structures, etc., than I do know, and the best way I learn is by wading in doing it.) I know it's possible to include a link to a URL in the 856 tag, but that's not quite what I want. I'm looking for something a bit more like the Gallery View of the photo collections in the Library of Congress' American Memory project (see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html for an example).
It's not hard to do, but will require some customization of the template ... and you'll have to have a web space to store the images and name them by ISBN or some other identifier (like biblionumber). There's been talk of fully-integrating a image upload feature into Koha, but I'm not sure if anyone's working actively on it. Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS