Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@...> writes:
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be.
Hello everyone, This is a project I have been working on in bits and pieces. I am still in the process of making a decent (and fairly simple) interface for the staff. The patron side is much easier. Progress is decent and with any luck I am *hoping* to have time to get this done in a few months, but one never knows what new projects are going to pop-up! It is not quite ready to upload to be worked on. I think the important thing is to allow different libraries different ways of handling the maps. For us (and probably others) choosing a map for a location (including range of call / location code / library branch) is done and then the map can be annotated with an transparent overlay. In this way, one does not need to make countless maps and change them all the time. The main library(or libraries / floor / etc.) layout map can be used and then marked up for the location of the collection. The "marked-up" part is a little tricky - but I am looking for Jquery to rescue the situation. If the library did not want to use the overlay stuff, they could just upload jpegs, pngs, flvs(why not?), or gifs (or anim-gifs as NEU did) but it could be more work whenever things are moved around. And they do move! With some neat JQuery on the patron side also for fancy display, the thing would look pretty nice. This is a somewhat large scope project - mainly because of all the different elements required to do it, and I am working away at it when I have half a moment. Darrell Ulm