Hello. We are are in the process of converting our library from a custom ILS to Koha. Although we have only had our proof-of-concept Koha instance running for a few months, I have already had two patrons ask if it was possible to print out search results as a bibliography (preferably in some standard format like MLA, Chicago, APA...). Has anyone customized Koha to print bibliographies based on search results, or does anyone have any suggestions for other ways we might meet our patrons' needs? We're also looking into extending the COinS functionality, so that our patrons could use Zotero (or another citation manager, I assume) to produce bibliographies, so if anyone would be willing to share any improvements to Biblio::GetCOinSBiblio for MARC21 flavor, we would be grateful. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Cataloger - American Numismatic Society 75 Varick Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 571-4470, ext. 171 camins@numismatics.org http://www.numismatics.org/Library/Library
On 25 March 2010 07:26, Jared Camins-Esakov <camins@numismatics.org> wrote:
Hello.
We are are in the process of converting our library from a custom ILS to Koha. Although we have only had our proof-of-concept Koha instance running for a few months, I have already had two patrons ask if it was possible to print out search results as a bibliography (preferably in some standard format like MLA, Chicago, APA...). Has anyone customized Koha to print bibliographies based on search results, or does anyone have any suggestions for other ways we might meet our patrons' needs?
First question is, what version of Koha are you running?
We're also looking into extending the COinS functionality, so that our patrons could use Zotero (or another citation manager, I assume) to produce bibliographies, so if anyone would be willing to share any improvements to Biblio::GetCOinSBiblio for MARC21 flavor, we would be grateful.
The COinS support was designed to work with Zotero, and as far as I know does. (At least in the current master branch of the git repository) But like all software, everything can be improved, speaking as Release Manager for version 3.4 (the next version 3.2.0 is in feature freeze and near stable release) I do ask though that any improvements be sent as patches, so they can be included in Koha for the benefit of all :) Chris
Chris,
First question is, what version of Koha are you running?
Sorry about that. We've been running 3.0.5, but we're actually setting up a computer with 3.2-alpha as I type this. I did not think to check if 3.2 had added any functionality for printing bibliographies.
The COinS support was designed to work with Zotero, and as far as I know does. (At least in the current master branch of the git repository)
The COinS support for MARC21 is very rudimentary (there's even a comment to that effect in Biblio::GetCOinSBiblio). The specific "itch" that we have at the American Numismatic Society is that it doesn't handle analytics (and why would it? not many libraries use analytics). Since analytics make up more than half of our database, that's a serious issue for us. It also doesn't deal specially with conference publications (008/29), a feature I think we'll probably add in while we're at it.
But like all software, everything can be improved, speaking as Release Manager for version 3.4 (the next version 3.2.0 is in feature freeze and near stable release) I do ask though that any improvements be sent as patches, so they can be included in Koha for the benefit of all :)
We will be happy to share our improvements with the community. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Cataloger - American Numismatic Society 75 Varick Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 571-4470, ext. 171 camins@numismatics.org http://www.numismatics.org/Library/Library
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
The COinS support was designed to work with Zotero, and as far as I know does. (At least in the current master branch of the git repository)
COinS Support is there and does work very well with Zotero - I was going to send a link to the manual page on this - but I didn't write it yet :) Also, using Lists/Carts might work for some of the printing of bibliographies you're looking for. I will write the Zotero section of the manual today and tomorrow and you'll find it here: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x8293#AEN8322 Thanks Nicole Documentation Manager
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