details automatically from the internet
I'm VERY new to KOHA. Can I scan a barcode to add a book , and get all the details automatically from the internet, including cover pics? if yes, how please? TIA Jody -- =============================================== Mr Jody Kerley Network Manager Chatham South School Letchworth Avenue CHATHAM Kent ME4 6NT T: 01634 888138 (Direct) T: 01634 404277 (Main Switchboard) F: 01634 829010 E: kerlj001@medway.org.uk General Enquiries: office@chathamsouth.medway.sch.uk ===============================================
"Mr Jody Kerley" <kerlj001@medway.org.uk> wrote:
I'm VERY new to KOHA. Can I scan a barcode to add a book , and get all the details automatically from the internet, including cover pics? if yes, how please?
Not including cover pics unless you have an Amazon account and can agree to their terms (which I would be surprised by in a school), but most other bibliographic details can be added from a Z39.50 search of a remote server. Z39.50 server lists are available and maybe a school can find some partner libraries at councils or other schools that have similar collections. Put the details into the Z39.50 servers admin screens in Parameters on the Intranet (usually :8080) pages. http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/ch01s02.html#d0e1047 It should be that one goes into acquisitions, scan the ISBN/UPC barcode into the field and click Z39.50 search - I've not checked how that's working recently, but it used to work. Recent user guide at http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/ch04s02.html Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
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). And as for the Z39.50 question, I tried adding a record earlier this week on my home Ubuntu/VM copy, and it worked. My barcode scanner didn't work all that well (yes, I have a barcode scanner at home; doesn't everybody??), but the Z39.50 search did. Fred King Medical Librarian, Washington Hospital Center fred.king@medstar.net 202-877-6221 koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote on 12/26/2007 11:45:06 AM:
"Mr Jody Kerley" <kerlj001@medway.org.uk> wrote:
I'm VERY new to KOHA. Can I scan a barcode to add a book , and get all the details automatically from the internet, including cover pics? if yes, how please?
Not including cover pics unless you have an Amazon account and can agree to their terms (which I would be surprised by in a school), but most other bibliographic details can be added from a Z39.50 search of a remote server. Z39.50 server lists are available and maybe a school
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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
Does Keystone tie into Koha? Would this be a solution for image display and cataloging? I saw that as another product from LibLime. David Schuster Joshua Ferraro-2 wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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